Notes for editors
Smrekar's research was sponsored by NASA. Venus Express is operated by ESA. The spacecraft's Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer (VIRTIS) is operated by INAF-IASF (Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica), Rome, Italy and LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, France, sponsored by ASI and CNES, with Selex-Galileo, Italy, as prime contractor.
For more information:
Suzanne Smrekar
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena, California
Email: Suzanne.E.Smrekar @ jpl.nasa.gov
Jörn Helbert
Institute of Planetary Research
German Aerospace Center, Berlin
Email: Joern.Helbert @ dlr.de
Giuseppe Piccioni
Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica
Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica, Rome
Email: giuseppe.piccioni @ iasf-roma.inaf.it
Håkan Svedhem
ESA Venus Express Project Scientist
ESTEC, The Netherlands
hsvedhem @ rssd.esa.int
