Alejandro Soto
@soto.space
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Planetary scientist and aerospace engineer. He/him. www.alejandrosoto.net My writing represents me alone and not my employer nor anyone else.
Planetary scientist and aerospace engineer. He/him. www.alejandrosoto.net My writing represents me alone and not my employer nor anyone else.
![The left side shows to maps of Venusian gravity. The top left is gravity measured by the Magellan mission while the bottom is a simulation of gravity measured by the future Veritas mission. The right plot shows how Veritas will see more and smaller coronae than Magellan.
Figure caption:
Fig. 5. Resolvable coronae in the Magellan and VERITAS gravity datasets.
(A and B) Distribution of (broadly/finely) resolved coronae superimposed over the Magellan global gravity degree strength (A) and the predicted VERITAS global gravity degree strength (B). For a definition and discussion of degree strength, see Methods. The maps are in Mollweide projection centered at 130°E. White features indicate broadly resolved coronae (one to three independent data points within the radius), while green features mark finely resolved coronae (four or more data points within the radius). See Methods for further details. (C) Histogram illustrating the distribution of coronae diameters [from (5)]. The purple solid line represents the cumulative count of coronae smaller than the specific diameter. The blue and red vertical dashed lines mark the average resolutions of VERITAS and Magellan of l = 190 and l = 80, respectively. The gray shaded area highlights coronae smaller than the best possible global average resolution that VERITAS can achieve.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wova7hnyxu76n7cruepzraod/bafkreif55ywe656fbwhqvmef36djugby4zj7k73sakxwptclds7vxe47ay)
