Unlocking the secrets of Venus surface mineralogy from orbit

Jörn Helbert1, Alessandro Maturilli2, Sabrina Ferrari3, Melinda Darby Dyar4, Nils Tobias Mueller5, Dr. Suzanne E Smrekar, PhD6 and Julia Koulen1, (1)German Aerospace Center DLR Berlin, Berlin, Germany, (2)German Aerospace Center DLR, Berlin, Germany, (3)Univ. degli Studi di Padova, Padua, Italy, (4)Mount Holyoke College, Department of Astronomy, South Hadley, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States