The Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging(DAVINCI) mission aims to answer long-standing questions regarding Venus’ origin using Zephyr, an atmospheric descent probe. Zephyr will be the first probe to take high-resolution aerial photographs of a mountainous tesserae surface as it descends over the Alpha Regio highlands region, which has the oldest surfaces of Venus. The Zephyr’s descent trajectory that determines the touchdown in the Alpha Regio, which is crucial for the DAVINCI mission, depends on Venus’ atmospheric properties and winds. Unfortunately, the atmospheric data for Venus from previous missions is sparse. Therefore, it is essential to consider various atmospheric models and scenarios from past flight data to predict Zephyr’s flight performance, specifically landing ellipse. To this end, this work compares three atmospheric models: the Venus Global Reference Atmospheric Model (Venus-GRAM), the Venus Climate Database(VCD), and an empirical wind model developed by Ralph Lorenz for the DAVINCI trajectory simulation and modeling. This paper compares the mean and variations of different atmospheric properties and winds from these atmospheric models. In addition, this work combines the atmospheric properties and the wind variability from the Venus-GRAM with the winds from the Lorenz-based model to have more stressing Venus wind dispersions that allow for more conservative trajectory analysis. Furthermore, this work relies on the DAVINCI landing ellipse size as a metric to measure how robust the trajectory analysis will be to the change in the atmospheric properties and winds of the Venus atmosphere.


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    Title :

    DAVINCI: Venus Atmospheric Model Comparisons


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    Conference:

    AIAA SciTech Forum and Exposition ; 2024 ; Orlando, FL, US


    Publication date :

    2024-01-12


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


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    Language :

    English




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