
Colaboração Japão-Portugal (FCUL-IA) no âmbito da missão espacial Akatsuki, por Toru Kouyama.
A Japanese Venusian orbiter, Akatsuki, was launched in 2010 to reveal mystery of Venusian climate. While Akatsuki experienced a severe mission trouble, failure of orbiter insertion, Akatsuki team succeeded their revenge to enter Akatsuki into Venusian orbiter in 2015, we call it as Venusian Orbiter Insertion “Revenge” (VOI-R). After VOI-R, Akatsuki has send many exciting images and data of Venus, which we had never seen before Akatsuki observation.