P21F:
Surface Boundary Exospheres: Comparing the Moon, Mercury, and Much More I

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Chairs:  Richard C Elphic, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, Kurt D Retherford, Southwest Research Inst, San Antonio, TX, United States, Mehdi Benna, NASA - GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and John W Keller, Code 691 SSED, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Conveners:  Richard C Elphic, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Kurt D Retherford, Southwest Research Inst, San Antonio, TX, United States, Mehdi Benna, NASA - GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and John W Keller, Code 691 SSED, Greenbelt, MD, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Richard C Elphic, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

8:00 AM
 
What Do We Know on Mercury’s and Moon Exospheres and Could We Learn from Their Comparison?
Francois Leblanc, LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris Cedex 05, France
8:15 AM
 
LADEE NMS Observations of Sporadic Water and Carbon Dioxide Signatures in the Lunar Exosphere
Mehdi Benna, NASA - GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Paul R Mahaffy, NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Dana Hurley, Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, Timothy John Stubbs, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, R Richard Hodges Jr, Univ of Colorado--LASP, Frisco, CO, United States and Richard C Elphic, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
8:30 AM
 
The search for Ar in the lunar atmosphere using the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter’s LAMP instrument.
Jason Campbell Cook1, S Alan Stern1, Paul D Feldman2, Randy Gladstone1, Kurt D Retherford3, Thomas K Greathouse4 and Cesare Grava5, (1)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (3)Southwest Research Inst, San Antonio, TX, United States, (4)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (5)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States
8:45 AM
 
The lunar exosphere as seen from LADEE UVS
Anthony Colaprete1, Diane H Wooden1, Amanda Cook2, Richard C Elphic1, Menelaos Sarantos3, Kara Vargo2, Brendan Hermalyn4, Timothy John Stubbs5, John Karcz1 and Mark Shirley1, (1)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (2)Milliennum Engineering, Sunnyvale, CA, United States, (3)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, (4)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
9:00 AM
 
The Teardrop Shaped Lunar Dust Exosphere
Jamey Szalay1,2, Mihaly Horanyi1,2, Sascha Kempf1,2, Eberhard Gruen2, Ralf Srama3 and Zoltan Sternovsky2,4, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, (4)University of Colorado at Boulder, Aerospace Eng. Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
9:15 AM
 
Solar wind sputtering of small bodies: Exospheres of Phobos and Deimos
Micah J Schaible, University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, VA, United States, Robert E Johnson, Univ Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States, Pascal Lee, Mars Institute, Mountain View, CA, United States, Mehdi Benna, NASA - GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Richard C Elphic, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
9:30 AM
 
The Giant Planet Satellite Exospheres
Melissa A McGrath, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
9:45 AM
 
Gas Transfer in the Pluto-Charon System: A Charon Atmosphere
Orenthal James Tucker1, Robert E Johnson2, Leslie Ann Young3, Xianzhe Jia1 and Valeriy Tenishev1, (1)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)Univ Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States, (3)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
 
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