[P-PS06] [EJ] Results of Venus science with Akatsuki in orbit for 1.5 year

2:20 PM - 2:45 PM JST(5:20 AM - 5:45 AM UTC)

[PPS06-13] Clouds' scattering property of Venus observed by UV imager on board Akatsuki★Invited papers

*Yeon Joo Lee¹, Manabu Yamada², Atsushi Yamazaki¹, Shigeto Watanabe³, Takeshi Imamura⁴, Takao Sato¹, Kazunori Ogohara⁵ (1.ISAS/JAXA, 2.PERC/Chiba Institute of Technology, 3.Hokkaido Information Univ., 4.Univ. of Tokyo, 5.Univ. of Shiga Prefecture)

Keywords:

Venus,Akatsuki,UV image,glory

The top altitude of the Venus cloud layer is around 70 km above the surface, at where solar radiation scattering occurs effectively. The scattering follows a phase curve depending on microphysical properties of cloud aerosols. We analyze global mean albedo obtained by the UV Imager (UVI) on board Akatsuki. Data acquired in May 2016 shows clear glory features at 283 and 365 nm at small phase angles. We successfully simulate the observation using a radiative transfer model. We estimate r_eff=1.26 um and v_eff=0.076 for mode 2 to explain the observation, consisting with a previously suggested low latitudinal aerosol property. We find that SO₂ and the unknown UV absorber are necessary factors to explain the observed quick decreasing of albedo at phase angles larger than 10 degree. We suggest a range of possible SO₂ abundance at 70 km from 80 to 400 ppbv, depending on assumed atmospheric conditions.