Venus looks different from day to night across wavelengths: morphology from Akatsuki multispectral images

Earth, Planets and Space

Table 1 Characteristics of cameras on Akatsuki orbiter

Camera	Channel name	Band center (μm)	Bandwidth (micron)	Transmittance	Pixel size (mm)	# Lines	# Samples	Focal length (mm)	Day/night
IR1	090d	0.900	0.00910	0.0027	0.017	1024	1024	84.2	Day
	090n	0.898	0.02890	0.74	0.017	1024	1024	84.2	Night
	097	0.969	0.03860	0.78	0.017	1024	1024	84.2	Night
	101	1.009	0.03910	0.75	0.017	1024	1024	84.2	Night
IR2	174	1.735	0.041	0.85	0.017	1024	1024	85.41	Night
	226	2.26	0.052	0.67	0.017	1024	1024	85.44	Night
	232	2.32	0.036	0.67	0.017	1024	1024	85.41	Night
	202	2.02	0.039	0.06	0.017	1024	1024	85.50	Day
	165	1.65	0.283	0.93	0.034	520	520	85.35	–
UVI	283	0.283	0.014	0.280	0.013	1024	1024	63.3	Day
UVI	365	0.365	0.014	0.509	0.013	1024	1024	63.3	Day
LIR		10.00	4.00	–	0.037	328	248	42.2	Day and night