Venus Express Announcement of Opportunity

This Announcement of Opportunity (AO) solicits the participation of the scientific community in the Venus Express Programme to increase further the scientific return of the selected investigations and of the mission as a whole.

Specifically, this AO addresses the participation of:

Interdisciplinary Scientists (IDS)

Supporting Investigators (SI)

This AO is open to all ESA member states and to any other country having an agreement with ESA. It is foreseen to nominate up to four IDS’s and an unspecified number of SI’s. Nomination does not imply any funding from ESA and each proposer is responsible for securing his/her own funding from other sources.

Proposal Submission

ESA requests the provision of both a hardcopy and an electronic version of the proposals. The proposals must be received at both ESA HQ and ESTEC not later than 15 March 2006.

For full details and contact information please refer to the document:

Venus Express Announcement of Opportunity,

ESA-SCI(2006)1 PDF (360 kb)