urn:jaxa:darts:context:investigation:mission.vco 1.0 1.18.0.0 Product_Context vco Venus Climate Orbiter akatsuki Akatsuki plc PLANET-C 2022-11-10 1.0 Initial release. urn:jaxa:darts:context:instrument_host:spacecraft.vco investigation_to_instrument_host urn:nasa:pds:context:target:planet.venus investigation_to_target 10.1186/s40623-016-0457-6 Nakamura, M., et al., AKATSUKI returns to Venus, Earth, Planets and Space, 68, 75, 2016. This is the Venus Climate Orbiter Akatsuki mission overview paper after the successful Venus orbit insertion. 10.1016/j.actaastro.2013.07.027 Nakamura, M., et al., Return to Venus of the Japanese Venus Climate Orbiter AKATSUKI, Acta Astronautica, 93, 384-389, 2014. This is the Venus Climate Orbiter Akatsuki mission overview paper before the successful Venus orbit insertion. 10.5047/eps.2011.02.009 Nakamura, M., et al., Overview of Venus orbiter, Akatsuki, Earth, Planets and Space, 63, 443-457, 2011. This is the Venus Climate Orbiter Akatsuki mission overview paper after the failure of the first attempt of the Venus orbit insertion. 10.1016/j.pss.2007.01.009 Nakamura, M., et al., Planet-C: Venus Climate Orbiter mission of Japan, Planetary and Space Sciences, 55, 1831-1842, 2007. This is the Venus Climate Orbiter Akatsuki mission overview paper before the launch. Venus Climate Orbiter Akatsuki Mission Mission 2010-05-20 The main goal of the mission of Akatsuki, also known as Venus Climate Orbiter (VCO) and PLANET-C is to understand the Venusian atmospheric dynamics, super-rotation, and cloud physics, with the explorations of the ground surface and the interplanetary dust also being the themes. The Venusian atmosphere was studied during the Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency. Akatsuki was also designed to study the Venusian atmosphere, but in contrast to the Venus Express strategy, five cameras with narrowband filters will image Venus at different wavelengths to track the distributions of clouds and minor gaseous constituents at different heights. In other words, we aim to study the Venusian atmospheric dynamics in three dimensions, while Venus Express collected mainly spectroscopic observations of the atmosphere. The mission started with the mission name and the spacecraft name PLANET-C, which means Japan's third planetary explorer succeeding SUISEI (PLANET-A), which observed Halley's comet, and NOZOMI (PLANET-B), which could not complete its mission to explore Mars.