PVO VENUS ELECT TEMP PROBE DERVD ELECT DENS LOW RES VER 1.0

This file gives the Ne, Te and Vs measurements derived by fitting the radial probe voltampere curves taken whenever PVO was within the ionosphere (ie., between the inbound and outbound ionopause crossings). Data from essentially every orbit in 1979 and 1980 included ionosphere transits. After the summer of 1980, however, periapsis could no longer be maintained at low altitudes, and it rose slowly. After April 1981 periapsis was above the altitude of the dayside ionopause, so the spacecraft encountered the ionosphere only in the terminator regions and on the nightside where the ionosphere extends to much higher altitudes. Dayside measurements again became available early in 1992 when periapsis returned to low enough altitudes. The PVO Entry period of between July and October 1992 provided only nightside periapsis data. During the intervening period (1981-91), only nightside UADS measurements in the high altitude (downstream) ionosphere were available. Note that High Resolution Ne data from the 1981-91 interval provide measurements in the dayside magnetosheath and in the solar wind, but these data have limited accuracy because of spacecraft photoelectron contributions. See [BRACEETAL1988] for further details on the interpretation of High Resolution measurements made outside the ionosphere.

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