P21C:
Mercury: Results from MESSENGER's Low-Altitude Campaign II Posters

Session ID#: 4550

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Poster Hall (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  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
Primary Convener:  Prof. Paul K Byrne, Universities Space Research Association, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States
Co-Convener:  Sean C Solomon, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, 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:

 
BepiColombo – a Joint ESA/JAXA Mission to Explore Mercury (10717)
Johannes Benkhoff, ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands and Masaki Fujimoto, JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara, Japan
 
Improving solar wind modeling at Mercury: Incorporating transient solar phenomena into the WSA-ENLIL model (17693)
Ryan M Dewey1, Daniel N Baker2, Brian J Anderson3, Mehdi Benna4, Catherine Johnson5, Haje Korth6, Daniel J Gershman7, George C Ho8, William James McClintock9, Dusan Odstrcil10, Lydia Philpott5, Jim M Raines11, David Schriver12, James A Slavin13, Sean C Solomon14, Reka Moldovan Winslow15 and Thomas Zurbuchen13, (1)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (2)University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (3)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (5)University of British Columbia, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (6)Johns Hopkins Univ/APL, Laurel, MD, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)Johns Hopkins Univ/APL, Laurel, United States, (9)University of California Santa Barbara, Marine Science Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (10)George Mason University, Fairfax, United States, (11)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States, (12)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (13)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (14)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, (15)University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States
 
MESSENGER Disappearing Dayside Magnetosphere Events: Evidence for Severe Dayside Erosion and/or Compression? (21556)
Helen R Middleton1, James A Slavin2, Jim M Raines3, Xianzhe Jia4, Brian J Anderson5, M. Leila Mays6 and Thomas Zurbuchen2, (1)ESA/ESAC, Villanueva De La Can, Spain, (2)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States, (4)University of Michigan, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (5)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Community Coordinated Modeling Center, Greenbelt, United States
 
Characteristics of Energetic Electron Events in Mercury’s Magnetosphere at the 10-ms Timescale (14947)
Ralph L McNutt Jr1, John O Goldsten2, David J Lawrence2, Richard D Starr3, George C Ho4, Patrick N Peplowski2, Brian J Anderson4, Haje Korth2, Stamatios Mike Krimigis4,5, Robert E Gold4, Sean C Solomon6,7 and Daniel N Baker8, (1)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Space Exploration Sector, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)Johns Hopkins Univ/APL, Laurel, MD, United States, (3)Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States, (4)Johns Hopkins Univ/APL, Laurel, United States, (5)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States, (6)Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC, United States, (7)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, (8)University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States
 
Mercury’s Tail Current Sheet from MESSENGER Magnetic Field Measurements (11921)
Manar Al Asad1, Catherine Johnson1,2, Lydia Philpott1, Brian J Anderson3, Haje Korth4, James A Slavin5 and Sean C Solomon6,7, (1)University of British Columbia, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (2)Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, United States, (3)The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States, (4)The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (5)University of Michigan, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (6)Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC, United States, (7)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States
 
The impact of a hot sodium ion population on the growth of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in Mercury's magnetotail (12917)
Peter Gingell1, Torbjorn Sundberg1 and David Burgess2, (1)Queen Mary University of London, School of Physics and Astronomy, London, United Kingdom, (2)Queen Mary University of London, Department of Physics and Astronomy, London, United Kingdom
 
ULF waves at Mercury (16576)
Eun-Hwa Kim, Princeton University, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, Scott A Boardsen, NASA GSFC/UMBC, Greenbelt, United States, Jay Johnson, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, United States and James A Slavin, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
 
MESSENGER’s low-altitude plasma observations in Mercury’s northern magnetospheric cusp (15712)
Jim M Raines1, Patrick Tracy2, Daniel J Gershman3, Gangkai Poh4, James A Slavin2, Thomas Zurbuchen2, Haje Korth5, Brian J Anderson6 and Sean C Solomon7,8, (1)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States, (2)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)Catholic University of America, Dept. of Physics, Maryland, United States, (5)Johns Hopkins Univ/APL, Laurel, MD, United States, (6)Johns Hopkins Univ/APL, Laurel, United States, (7)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, (8)Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC, United States
 
Magnetic Reconnection Controls Impacts of Solar Wind Ions at Mercury's Surface : Investigation By Global Hybrid Simulations (9912)
Gerard Marcel Chanteur, Ecole Polytechnique, Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, Palaiseau Cedex, France, Ronan Modolo, LATMOS/IPSL, UVSQ Université Paris-Saclay, Sorbonne Université, Guyancourt, France and Francois Leblanc, LATMOS/IPSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, UVSQ, Paris, France
 
Regional-Scale Surface Magnetic Fields and Proton Fluxes to Mercury’s Surface from Proton-Reflection Magnetometry (10478)
Reka Moldovan Winslow1, Catherine Johnson2, Brian J Anderson3, Daniel J Gershman4, Jim M Raines5, Robert J Lillis6, Haje Korth7, James A Slavin8, Sean C Solomon9 and Thomas Zurbuchen8, (1)University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States, (2)University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (3)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States, (6)Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (7)The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (8)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (9)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
 
Development with MESSENGER Data of a Model of Mercury's Magnetospheric Magnetic Field Confined within the Average Observed Magnetopause (10236)
Haje Korth1, Nikolai A Tsyganenko2, Catherine Johnson3,4, Lydia Philpott4, Brian J Anderson5, Manar Al Asad4, Sean C Solomon6,7 and Ralph L McNutt Jr5, (1)The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia, (3)Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, United States, (4)University of British Columbia, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (5)The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States, (6)Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC, United States, (7)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States
 
Mercury’s Internal Magnetic Field: Results from MESSENGER’s Low-altitude Campaign (12865)
Catherine Johnson1,2, Michael E Purucker3, Lydia Philpott1, Haje Korth4, Brian J Anderson5, Reka Moldovan Winslow6, Manar Al Asad1, Joseph B Nicholas7, Nikolai A Tsyganenko8, Steven A. Hauck II9, James W Head III10, Roger J Phillips11 and Sean C Solomon12, (1)University of British Columbia, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (2)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, United States, (3)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (4)The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (5)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (6)University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States, (7)Emergent Space Technologies, Inc @ NASA GSFC Geodesy and Geophysics Lab, Greenbelt, United States, (8)Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia, (9)Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States, (10)Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, United States, (11)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (12)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
 
Low-Altitude Neutron Measurements at Mercury: New Insights into Volatile Distributions (12997)
Patrick N Peplowski1, David J Lawrence2, John O Goldsten1, Larry R Nittler3 and Sean C Solomon4, (1)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)Applied Physics Laboratory - Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD, United States, (3)Carnegie Inst Washington, Washington, DC, United States, (4)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
 
Hydrogen Concentrations near Mercury’s North Pole: New Measurements from MESSENGER’s Low-Altitude Campaign (13068)
David J Lawrence, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, Patrick N Peplowski, Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, William C Feldman, Planetary Science Institute, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Sean C Solomon, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States
 
Global Volcanism on Mercury at About 3.8 Ga (13599)
Prof. Paul K Byrne1,2, Lillian Rose Ostrach3, Brett W Denevi4, James W Head III5, Steven A. Hauck II6, Scott L Murchie4 and Sean C Solomon1,7, (1)Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Universities Space Research Association, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (5)Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, United States, (6)Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States, (7)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States
 
Spectro-Morphologic Analysis of Pyroclastic Deposits on Mercury (7629)
Alain Doressoundiram, LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Cité, 5 place Jules Janssen, 92195 Meudon, France., Paris, France, Sebastien Besse, European Space Research and Technology Centre, Noordwijk, Netherlands and Willis Hersérant, Paris Observatory, Paris, France
 
TIR Spectroscopy: Looking for Igneous Rocks on the Surface of Mercury. (22076)
Sabrina Ferrari1, Alessandro Maturilli2, Cristian Carli3, Jörn Helbert1, Mario D'Amore1, Fabrizio Nestola4, Federico Zorzi5 and Harald Hiesinger6, (1)German Aerospace Center DLR Berlin, Berlin, Germany, (2)German Aerospace Center DLR, Berlin, Germany, (3)IAPS-INAF, Roma, Italy, (4)University of Padua, Department of Geosciences, Padua, Italy, (5)Department of Geosciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy, (6)University of Münster, Institute for Planetology, Münster, Germany
 
Unsupervised Classification of Mercury’s Surface Spectral and Chemical Characteristics (9204)
Mario D'Amore1, Jörn Helbert2, Sabrina Ferrari3, Alessandro Maturilli2, Larry R Nittler4, Deborah L Domingue5, Faith Vilas5, Shoshana Weider6, Richard D Starr7, Ellen J Crapster-Pregont8, Denton S Ebel9 and Sean C Solomon10, (1)German Aerospace Center DLR Berlin, Berlin, Germany, (2)German Aerospace Center DLR, Berlin, Germany, (3)DLR, Berlin, Germany, (4)Carnegie Inst Washington, Washington, DC, United States, (5)Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, United States, (6)Carnegie Institution, Washington, DC, United States, (7)Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States, (8)Columbia University, New York, NY, United States, (9)American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, United States, (10)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
 
A Map of Kilometer-Scale Topographic Roughness of Mercury (14940)
Mikhail A Kreslavsky1,2, James W Head III3, Alexander A Kokhanov2, Gregory A Neumann4, David E Smith5, Maria T Zuber6 and Natalia A Kozlova2, (1)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (2)Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography (MIIGAiK), Moscow, Russia, (3)Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (5)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (6)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Office of the Vice President for Research, Cambridge, MA, United States
 
Mercury’s Low-Degree Geoid and Topography from Insolation-Driven Elastic Deformation (10454)
Nicola Tosi1,2, Ondřej Čadek3, Sebastiano Padovan4,5 and Mark A Wieczorek4, (1)German Aerospace Center DLR Berlin, Planetary Physics, Berlin, Germany, (2)German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Planetary Research, Berlin, Germany, (3)Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Department of Geophysics, Prague, Czech Republic, (4)Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France, (5)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
Thickness of Mercury’s crust from MESSENGER gravity and altimetry data (12864)
Sebastiano Padovan1,2, Mark A Wieczorek1, Jean-Luc Margot2, Nicola Tosi3,4 and Sean C Solomon5,6, (1)Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)German Aerospace Center DLR Berlin, Planetary Physics, Berlin, Germany, (4)German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Planetary Research, Berlin, Germany, (5)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (6)Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC, United States
 
Surface Strains Associated with the Evolution of Mercury’s Domical Swells (9944)
Peter B. James, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Prof. Paul K Byrne, Universities Space Research Association, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States, Sean C Solomon, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, Maria T Zuber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States and Roger J Phillips, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Mercury’s global fabric of thrust faults (15283)
Christian Klimczak1,2, Prof. Paul K Byrne1,3 and Sean C Solomon1,4, (1)Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC, United States, (2)University of Georgia, Department of Geology, Athens, GA, United States, (3)Universities Space Research Association, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States, (4)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States
 
Locations of Major Thrust Faults on Mercury Point to a Formation Mechanism Associated with Crustal Thickening (13358)
Michelle M Selvans, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States, Thomas R Watters, Smithsonian Inst, Washington, United States, Peter B. James, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Roger J Phillips, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States and Sean C Solomon, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States
 
Small Fault Scarps on Mercury Detected in Low-Altitude MESSENGER Images (9378)
Thomas R Watters1, Sean C Solomon2,3, Katie E. Daud1, Maria E Banks1, Michelle M Selvans1, Mark Southwick Robinson4, Scott L Murchie5, Nancy L Chabot6, Brett W Denevi5, Carolyn M Ernst5, Clark R Chapman7, Caleb Fassett8, Christian Klimczak2,9, Prof. Paul K Byrne2,10 and David T Blewett5, (1)Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum, Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC, United States, (3)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, (4)Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States, (5)The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (6)The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States, (7)Southwest Research Institute, Planetary Science Directorate, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (9)University of Georgia, Department of Geology, Athens, GA, United States, (10)Universities Space Research Association, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States
 
Caloris Basin, Mercury: An Analysis of Cross-Cutting Tectonic Structures (22696)
Alister Cunje, University of Toronto, Earth Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada and Rebecca R Ghent, Planetary Science Intitute, Tuscon, United States
 
Constraints on Mercury’s Core-Mantle Boundary Region (12831)
Steven A. Hauck II1, Nancy L Chabot2, Peng Sun1, Zhicheng Jing3, Catherine Johnson4,5, Jean-Luc Margot6, Sebastiano Padovan6, Stanton J Peale7, Roger J Phillips8 and Sean C Solomon9, (1)Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States, (2)Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD, United States, (3)Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, United States, (4)University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (5)Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, United States, (6)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (7)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (8)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (9)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States
 
How is Mercury's dynamo powered? (22608)
Grace Alexandra Cox1, Brent Delbridge2, Jessica C E Irving3, Hiroaki Matsui4, William F McDonough5, Ian Rose2, Anat Shahar6 and Sean M Wahl2, (1)University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, (2)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)University of Bristol, School of Earth Sciences, Bristol, BS8, United Kingdom, (4)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (5)Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, (6)Carnegie Science, Earth and Planets Laboratory, Washington, United States
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