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AIR project

Exploring Venus' interior with balloons.

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Publications

Papers

  1. Gullbekk, S. B., Brissaud, Q., Froment, M., Lefevre, M., Iezzi, A. M., & Näsholm, S. P. (2026). Infrasound waveguides on Venus could enable the detection of explosive volcanism using balloons. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets.
  2. Hardy, P., Podglajen, A., Le Pichon, A., Listowski, C., Hertzog, A., Gullbekk, S. B., Froment, M., Näsholm, S. P., Brissaud, Q., & Schwoebel, L. (2026). Stratospheric balloon observations of infrasound from the 2021-2022 Hunga eruptive sequence and its 19 December 2021 eruption. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
  3. Brissaud, Q., Kong, C., Froment, M., Wilding, J., Gülcher, A. J. P., Jackson, J. M., van Zelst, I., Garci, R. F., Solberg, C. M., & Näsholm, S. P. (2026). Aerial and space-borne seismology on Venus: Viability and design implications for future missions. Earth and Space Science, 13(6), e2025EA004541. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025EA004541
  4. Froment, M., Brissaud, Q., Näsholm, S. P., Solberg, C. M., Kaschwich, T., & Turquet, A. (2024). Probing a planet from the subsurface to the atmosphere with infrasound data. Authorea Preprints. https://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.171536007.73053488/v1
  5. Turquet, A., Brissaud, Q., Alvizuri, C., Näsholm, S. P., Le Pichon, A., & Kero, J. (2024). Retrieving seismic source characteristics using seismic and infrasound data: The 2020 ML 4.1 Kiruna minequake, Sweden. Geophysical Research Letters, 51(12), e2024GL109276. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL109276
  6. Garcia, R. F., van Zelst, I., Kawamura, T., Näsholm, S. P., Horleston, A. C., Klaasen, S., Lefevre, M., Solberg, C. M., Smolinski, K. T., Plesa, A.-C., & others. (2024). Seismic wave detectability on Venus using ground deformation sensors, infrasound sensors on balloons and airglow imagers. Authorea Preprints. https://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.171286367.76819789
  7. Froment, M., Xu, Z., Lognonné, P. H., Larmat, C., Garcia, R. F., Drilleau, M., Delbridge, B. G., Spiga, A., Kawamura, T., & Beucler, É. (2024). Inferring the speed of sound and wind in the nighttime Martian Boundary Layer from impact-Generated infrasound. Geophysical Research Letters, 51(18), e2024GL109726. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL109726

Presentations

  1. Nasholm, S. P., Brissaud, Q., Solberg, C. M., & Froment, M. (2024). Exploring the feasibility of detecting seismically-generated infrasound waves on Venus using balloon platforms. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-12783
  2. Brissaud, Q., Näsholm, S. P., Turquet, A., Kaschwich, T., & Solberg, C. M. (2023). The AIR project: Leveraging balloon pressure data for planetary exploration. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, 2023(335), S11G–0335.
  3. Näsholm, S. P., Brisaud, Q., Turquet, A., Kaschwich, T., & Froment, M. (2024). Exploring a planet with infrasound: Challenges in probing the subsurface and the atmosphere. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 155(3_Supplement), A70–A70. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0026837
  4. van Zelst, I., Crameri, F., De Toffoli, B., Garcia, R. F., Ghail, R., Gülcher, A. J. P., Horleston, A., Kawamura, T., Klaasen, S., Lefevre, M., & others. (2024). The quest for quakes on Venus. https://doi.org/10.5194/epsc2024-1010
  5. van Zelst, I., De Toffoli, B., Garcia, R. F., Ghail, R., Gülcher, A. J. P., Horleston, A., Kawamura, T., Klaasen, S., Lefevre, M., Lognonné, P., & others. (2024). Seismicity on Venus: optimal detection methods and target regions. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, 12790.