Abstract
From the detailed measurements in Venusian ionosphere by the Pioneer Venus Orbiter, it was well-known that there is a large day-to-night flow of ionospheric plasma with the horizontal speed reaching a value as high as 5 km/s at 500 km altitude near the terminator. This large-scale anti-sunward convective motion could lead to a significant distortion of the hot oxygen corona maintained by oxygen atoms from O+ 2 dissociation recombination into a tadpole-like structure. A Monte-Carlo model is developed to simulate the two-dimensional configuration of such a hot oxygen corona.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Advances in Geosciences |
Publisher | World Scientific Publishing Co. |
Pages | 25-34 |
Number of pages | 10 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9789814405744 |
ISBN (Print) | 9789814405737 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Jan 2012 |