P13F:
Mercury: Results from MESSENGER's Low-Altitude Campaign I
Monday, 15 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
Chairs: Paul K Byrne, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Universities Space Research Association, Houston, TX, United States and Sean C Solomon, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
Primary Conveners: Paul K Byrne, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Universities Space Research Association, Houston, TX, United States
Co-conveners: Larry R Nittler, Carnegie Inst Washington, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaisons: Paul K Byrne, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Universities Space Research Association, Houston, TX, United States
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
1:40 PM
MESSENGER’s Low-Altitude Campaign: Mercury at Unprecedented Close Range
Sean C Solomon, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, Larry R Nittler, Carnegie Inst Washington, Washington, DC, United States and Paul K Byrne, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Universities Space Research Association, Houston, TX, United States
1:55 PM
Solar Wind Forcing at Mercury: Comparison Between MESSENGER Observations and ENLIL Model Results for the Low-Altitude Campaign
Daniel N. Baker, University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, Ryan M. Dewey, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States and Dusan Odstrcil, George Mason University Fairfax, Computational and Data Sciences, Fairfax, VA, United States
2:10 PM
Birkeland Currents and Their Closure at Mercury
Brian J Anderson, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, Haje Korth, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, Catherine L 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
2:25 PM
Knowledge of Mercury's Exosphere from MESSENGER Observations
Rosemary M Killen1, Matthew H Burger1, Timothy A Cassidy2, Ronald Joe Vervack Jr3, Menelaos Sarantos1, Aimee W Merkel2 and William E McClintock2, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, LASP, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
2:40 PM
Mapping Mercury’s Surface Composition at High Spatial Resolution with the MESSENGER X-Ray Spectrometer
Larry R Nittler1, Shoshana Z 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
2:55 PM
Mercury's Hollows: New Information on Distribution and Morphology from MESSENGER Observations at Low Altitude
David T Blewett1, Amanda C Stadermann2, Nancy L Chabot1, Brett Wilcox Denevi1, Carolyn M Ernst1 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
3:10 PM
The Mercury Gravity Field after the MESSENGER Low-Altitude Gravity Campaign
Erwan Mazarico1, Antonio Genova2, Sander J Goossens3, Frank G Lemoine1, Gregory A Neumann1, David E Smith2, Maria T Zuber2 and Sean C Solomon4,5, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)UMBC CRESST/ NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (5)Carnegie Institute of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC, United States
3:25 PM
Effect of an Ellipsoidal Solid Inner Core on Mercury's Obliquity
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