Scarf,F.L., W.W.L. Taylor, and P.F. Virobik, 'The Pioneer Venus Orbiter Plasma Investigation', IEEE Transactions Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Jan. 1980, Volume GE-18 Number 1, pg 36. This directory contains the original instrument description and initial observations paper. This file is available in ASCII. Figures referenced in the document are available in GIF format. Each figure in the original document corresponds to one GIF file (FIGXX.GIF where XX is the figure number). The document is also available in HTML format to preserve its original format as much as possible.