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Title: Venus Atmospheric Explorer New Frontiers Mission Concept
Primary Author: Kevin H. Baines
Secondary Author(s): Sushil Atreya, Tibor Balint, David Crisp, David Grinspoon, Jeffery L. Hall, Gary W. Hunter, Sanjay Limaye, Viktor Kerzhanovich, Paul R. Mahaffy, Christopher T. Russell, David Senske, Stuart K. Stephens, Chris R. Webster
Institution: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Summary: A multiple-platform mission to Venus that includes a long-duration, circumnavigating balloon-based element, two drop sondes, and an orbiter, is described that directly addresses fundamental science iissues of planetary formation/evolution, dynamics/circulation, chemistry, meteorology, and geology.
Panel Selection: Inner Planets: Mercury, Venus, and the Moon.
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