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We thank the European Space Agency for providing the Venus Express opportunity, and national space agencies and organizations for supporting the investigators who contributed to the success of the Venus Express plasma package.

Author Contributions S.B. is the principal investigator of the Venus Express plasma package, Analyser of Space Plasmas and Energetic Atoms (ASPERA)-4. J.A.S. is the co-principal investigator. A.F. is the leading co-investigator of the ion mass analyser of ASPERA-4. A.C. is the leading co-investigator of the electron spectrometer of ASPERA-4. T.L.Z. is the principal investigator of the magnetometer. The remaining authors are co-investigators on either of the plasma analyser or the magnetometer investigations.

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  1. Swedish Institute of Space Physics, S-98128 Kiruna, Sweden
    S. Barabash, R. Lundin, Y. Futaana, H. Andersson, K. Brinkfeldt, A. Grigoriev, M. Holmström & M. Yamauchi
  2. Centre d’Étude Spatiale des Rayonnements, BP-44346, F-31028 Tolouse, France , Tolouse
    A. Fedorov, J. J. Sauvaud, C. Mazelle & J.-J. Thocaven
  3. IGPP, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA , California
    C. T. Russell
  4. Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Science, A-8042 Graz, Austria , Graz
    T. L. Zhang, W. Baumjohann & H. Lammer
  5. Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, 3-1-1 Yoshinodai, Sagamihara 229-8510, Japan , Sagamihara
    K. Asamura
  6. Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, Holmbury St Mary, Dorking, Surrey RH5 6NT, UK , Surrey
    A. J. Coates, D. O. Kataria & D. R. Linder
  7. University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA , Arizona
    C. C. Curtis, K. C. Hsieh & B. R. Sandel
  8. University of Wales Aberystwyth, Penglais, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 3BZ, UK , Ceredigion
    M. Grande
  9. Department of Physics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506-6315, USA, West Virginia
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    H. E. J. Koskinen
  11. Finnish Meteorological Institute, Box 503, FIN-00101 Helsinki, Finland , Helsinki
    H. E. J. Koskinen, E. Kallio, P. Riihelä, T. Säles & W. Schmidt
  12. Space Physics Research Laboratory, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2143, USA , Michigan
    J. Kozyra
  13. Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Max-Planck-Str. 2, D-37191 Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany
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  14. Space Science Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-7450, USA , California
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  15. Space Technology Ireland, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland , Kildare
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  20. University of Bern, Physikalisches Institut, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
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Barabash, S., Fedorov, A., Sauvaud, J. et al. The loss of ions from Venus through the plasma wake.Nature 450, 650–653 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature06434

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