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    Notes for editors

    30 November 2010

    Photolysis of sulphuric acid as the source of sulphur oxides in the mesosphere of Venus, by Xi Zhang, Mao-Chang Liang, Franck Montmessin, Jean-Loup Bertaux, Christopher Parkinson and Yuk L. Yung, is published in Nature Geoscience today.

    Venus Express’s instrument SPICAV stands for Spectroscopy for Investigation of Characteristics of the Atmosphere of Venus.

    For more information:

    Markus Bauer
    ESA Science and Robotic Exploration Communication Officer
    Tel: +31 71 565 6799, +31 61 594 3 954
    Email: markus.bauer@esa.int

    Håkan Svedhem
    ESA Project Scientist Venus Express
    Email: H.Svedhem@esa.int

    Jean-Loup Bertaux, SPICAV Principal Investigator
    LATMOS, Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin, France,
    Tel: +33 1 80 28 50 62, +33 6 80 73 08 70
    Email: jean-loup.bertaux@latmos.ipsl.fr

    Colin F. Wilson
    Oxford University, UK
    Tel: +44 1865 272 086
    Email: wilson@atm.ox.ac.uk

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