Venus Dust Ring
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- Visualizations by:
- Tom Bridgman
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- Written by:
- Kathalina Tran
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In this visualization we open with a wide view of the inner solar system with the dust ring located at the orbit of Venus. The camera zooms in to a location just beyond the position of STEREO-A to look back at the orbit of Venus. This shows the enhancement of scattering by the dust ring near the greatest elongation of Venus' orbit relative to STEREO-A.
This visualization displays a simulation of a ring of dust at the orbit of the planet Venus. The dust simulation consists of several million particles subjected to forces of gravity, radiation pressure, radiation drag, and solar wind drag from the Sun.
Multiple sources were considered for the dust - Jupiter family comets, main belt asteroids, Oort cloud comets and others. The source most consistent with the observed enhancement were a population of asteroids in the same orbit as Venus.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio
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Visualizer
- Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.) [Lead]
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Writer
- Kathalina Tran (SGT) [Lead]
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Scientists
- Marc Kuchner (NASA/GSFC)
- Petr Pokorny (Catholic University of America)
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Technical support
- Ian Jones (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
- Laurence Schuler (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
Datasets used in this visualization
JPL/Horizon Orbital Ephemerides
Planetary ephemerides
Dataset can be found at: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/?horizons
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