P13F:
Mercury: Results from MESSENGER's Low-Altitude Campaign I

Session ID#: 2116

Monday, 15 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
2008 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Prof. Paul K Byrne, Universities Space Research Association, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States and Sean C Solomon, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
Primary Convener:  Prof. Paul K Byrne, Universities Space Research Association, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States
Co-Convener:  Larry R Nittler, Carnegie Inst Washington, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Prof. Paul K Byrne, Universities Space Research Association, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States
Index Terms:

5410 Composition [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
5430 Interiors [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
5464 Remote sensing [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
6235 Mercury [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

MESSENGER’s Low-Altitude Campaign: Mercury at Unprecedented Close Range (13032)
Sean C Solomon, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, Larry R Nittler, Carnegie Inst Washington, Washington, DC, United States and Prof. Paul K Byrne, Universities Space Research Association, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States
Solar Wind Forcing at Mercury: Comparison Between MESSENGER Observations and ENLIL Model Results for the Low-Altitude Campaign (Invited) (4231)
Daniel N Baker, University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, Ryan M Dewey, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States and Dusan Odstrcil, George Mason University, Fairfax, United States
Birkeland Currents and Their Closure at Mercury (Invited) (10897)
Brian J Anderson, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, Haje Korth, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, Catherine Johnson, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, James A Slavin, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Roger J Phillips, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States
Knowledge of Mercury's Exosphere from MESSENGER Observations (Invited) (4138)
Rosemary M Killen1, Matthew H Burger2, Timothy A Cassidy3, Ronald J Vervack Jr4, Menelaos Sarantos5, Aimee W Merkel3 and William James McClintock6, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 695, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, LASP, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (6)University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States
Mapping Mercury’s Surface Composition at High Spatial Resolution with the MESSENGER X-Ray Spectrometer (10165)
Larry R Nittler1, Shoshana Weider1, Richard D Starr2, Audrey Vorburger3 and Sean C Solomon4, (1)Carnegie Inst Washington, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States, (3)American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, United States, (4)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
Mercury's Hollows: New Information on Distribution and Morphology from MESSENGER Observations at Low Altitude (8840)
David T Blewett1, Amanda C Stadermann2, Nancy L Chabot1, Brett W Denevi3, Carolyn M Ernst4 and Patrick N Peplowski1, (1)JHU Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)Washington University in St Louis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, St. Louis, MO, United States, (3)JHU Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, United States, (4)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States
The Mercury Gravity Field after the MESSENGER Low-Altitude Gravity Campaign (Invited) (4874)
Erwan Mazarico, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Antonio Genova, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, Sander J Goossens, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, Frank G Lemoine, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Geodesy and Geophysics Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Gregory A Neumann, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, David E Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, Maria T Zuber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Office of the Vice President for Research, Cambridge, MA, United States and Sean C Solomon, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States; Carnegie Institute of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC, United States
Effect of an Ellipsoidal Solid Inner Core on Mercury's Obliquity (19324)
Stanton J Peale, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Jean-Luc Margot, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Steven A. Hauck II, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States and Sean C Solomon, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States
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