P53A:
Mercury after MESSENGER II Posters


Session ID#: 8234

Session Description:
NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft completed more than four years of orbital operations at Mercury in April 2015. The mission returned unprecedented measurements of Mercury's surface, interior, exosphere, and magnetosphere that collectively have revolutionized our understanding of the innermost planet. This session will highlight results from the most recent, highest-resolution observations returned by MESSENGER, as well as results from analysis of the six years of flyby and orbital data from this highly successful mission, to understand Mercury's geological evolution, the planet's geophysical and geochemical characteristics, and the interaction of the planet's exosphere and magnetosphere with the solar wind and interplanetary magnetic field. We also welcome contributed papers on complementary ground-based observations, laboratory measurements, theoretical developments relevant to planetary processes at Mercury, and future mission opportunities.
Primary Convener:  Prof. Paul K Byrne, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Universities Space Research Association, Houston, United States; Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Sean C Solomon, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC, United States; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States and Larry R Nittler, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC, United States
Chairs:  Prof. Paul K Byrne, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC, United States; Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, St. Louis, United States and Elizabeth Frank, Carnegie Institution for Science Washington, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Prof. Paul K Byrne, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC, United States; Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, St. Louis, United States
Index Terms:

5430 Interiors [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
5443 Magnetospheres [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
5470 Surface materials and properties [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
6235 Mercury [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Intense energetic-electron flux enhancements in Mercury’s magnetosphere: An integrated view with high-resolution observations from MESSENGER (73088)
Ryan M. Dewey1, Daniel N Baker2, James A Slavin3, Jim M Raines4, David J Lawrence5, John O Goldsten6, Patrick N Peplowski7, Haje Korth7, Stamatios Mike Krimigis7, Brian J Anderson5, George C Ho7, Ralph L McNutt Jr7, David Schriver8 and Sean C Solomon9, (1)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (4)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (5)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (6)Johns Hopkins Univ/APL, Laurel, MD, United States, (7)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, (8)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (9)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States
THE HERMEAN BOW SHOCK AND ION FORESHOCK AS SEEN BY THREE-DIMENSIONAL GLOBAL HYBRID SIMULATIONS (82878)
Gerard Marcel Chanteur, Ecole Polytechnique, Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, Palaiseau Cedex, France, Ronan Modolo, LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris Cedex 05, France and Francois Leblanc, LATMOS/IPSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, UVSQ, Paris, France
A Model of Mercury's Magnetospheric Magnetic Field with Dependence on Magnetic Activity (63271)
Haje Korth1, Nikolai A Tsyganenko2, Catherine Johnson3,4, Lydia Philpott3, Brian J Anderson5, 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)University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (4)Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, United States, (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
Global Modeling of ULF waves at Mercury (69753)
Ernest J Valeo, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, Eun-Hwa Kim, Princeton University, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, Jay Johnson, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan, United States and Cynthia Phillips, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab, Princeton, NJ, United States
MESSENGER Observations of Suprathermal Electrons in Mercury’s Magnetosphere (59890)
George C Ho1, Stamatios Mike Krimigis1, Richard D Starr2, Jon Duane Vandegriff1, Daniel N Baker3, Robert E Gold1, Brian J Anderson4, Haje Korth1, David Schriver5, Ralph L McNutt Jr1 and Sean C Solomon6, (1)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (5)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (6)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States
Energization and Precipitation of Electrons in Mercury’s Magnetosphere (70968)
David Schriver1, Pavel M. Travnicek2, George C Ho3, Richard D Starr4, Deborah L Domingue5, Daniel N Baker6, Petr Hellinger7, Stamatios Mike Krimigis3, Ralph L McNutt Jr3, Jim M Raines8, James A Slavin9 and Sean C Solomon10, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, (4)Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States, (5)Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, United States, (6)University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (8)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (9)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (10)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States
Processes Producing the Extremely Hot Ca and Mg Exospheres at Mercury (65349)
Rosemary M Killen, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 695, Greenbelt, MD, United States
A Seasonal Feature in Mercury’s Exosphere Caused by Meteoroids from Comet Encke (63943)
Apostolos Christou, Armagh Observatory, Armagh, United Kingdom, Rosemary M Killen, NASA Goddard Space Flight Cent, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Matthew H Burger, Goddard Earth Sciences, Technology, and Research, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, United States
Observations of Mercury’s Surface-Bounded Exosphere from Orbit: Results from the Mercury Atmospheric and Surface Composition Spectrometer aboard the MESSENGER Spacecraft (69425)
William E McClintock1, Matthew H Burger2, Timothy A Cassidy1, Rosemary M Killen3, Aimee W Merkel4, Menelaos Sarantos5, Sean C Solomon6 and Ronald J Vervack Jr7, (1)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)STScI, Baltimore, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 695, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Geospace Physics Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States, (6)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, (7)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States
Analysis of Ultraviolet Reflectance Spectra of Mercury’s Southern Hemisphere (62899)
Noam Izenberg1, Dr. Rachel Elise Maxwell, PhD2, Gregory M Holsclaw3, Rachel L Klima4, Sean C Solomon5 and William E McClintock3, (1)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)Purdue University, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science Department, West Lafeyette, United States, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (4)JHU Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, United States, (5)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States
Global Distribution and Spectral Properties of Low-Reflectance Material on Mercury (72617)
Rachel L Klima1, Brett W Denevi2, Carolyn M Ernst2, Noam Izenberg3, Scott L Murchie4, Patrick N Peplowski3 and Sean C Solomon5, (1)JHU Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, United States, (2)The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (3)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, (4)Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (5)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States
The Composition of Geological-Scale Features Resolved by MESSENGER’s X-Ray Spectrometer (64740)
Elizabeth Frank, Carnegie Institution for Science Washington, Washington, DC, United States, Larry R Nittler, Carnegie Inst Washington, Washington, DC, United States, Audrey Vorburger, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, United States, Shoshana Weider, Carnegie Institution, Washington, DC, United States, Richard D Starr, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States and Sean C Solomon, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States
Mercury’s Hollows: Depths, Estimation of Formation Rates, and the Nature of the Bright Haloes (64046)
David T Blewett1, Amanda C Stadermann2, Nancy L Chabot1, Brett W Denevi3, Carolyn M Ernst4, Zhiyong Xiao5 and Sean C Solomon6, (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, (5)China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China, (6)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States
Initial Results from a Global Database of Mercurian Craters (67746)
Robert Ritchie Herrick, Ephy Wheeler, William Crumpacker and Daniel Bates, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Basin Formation and Cratering on Mercury Revealed by MESSENGER (83764)
Clark R Chapman1, Caleb Fassett2, Simone Marchi3, William J Merline1, Lillian Rose Ostrach4 and Louise M Prockter5, (1)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (3)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, United States
Morphometry of Small Flat Floored Craters on Mercury: Implications for Regolith Thickness (62434)
Anastasia Zharkova1, Mikhail A Kreslavsky2, Evgeniy S Brusnikin1, Anatoliy E Zubarev1, Irina Petrovna Karachevtseva1 and James W Head III3, (1)Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography, Moscow, Russia, (2)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (3)Brown University, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States
Widespread Plains Volcanism on Mercury Ended by 3.6 Ga (67163)
Prof. Paul K Byrne1,2, Lillian Rose Ostrach3, Caleb Fassett4, Clark R Chapman5, Alexander J Evans6, Christian Klimczak2,7, Maria Banks8,9, James W Head III10 and Sean C Solomon2,11, (1)Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, St. Louis, United States, (2)Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (5)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (7)University of Georgia, Department of Geology, Athens, GA, United States, (8)Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum, Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, Washington, DC, United States, (9)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States, (10)Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, United States, (11)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
Tectonic Controls on Pyroclastic Volcanism on Mercury (67183)
Mya Habermann, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States and Christian Klimczak, University of Georgia, Department of Geology, Athens, GA, United States
Mercury’s lithospheric thickness and crustal density, as inferred from MESSENGER observations (71111)
Peter B. James, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Erwan Mazarico, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Antonio Genova, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States, David E Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, Gregory A Neumann, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA, Greenbelt, United States and Sean C Solomon, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States
The gravity field and orientation of Mercury after the MESSENGER mission (69517)
Erwan Mazarico, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Antonio Genova, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States, Sander J Goossens, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, United States, Frank G Lemoine, NASA Goddard GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, Gregory A Neumann, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA, Greenbelt, United States, Maria T Zuber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, David E Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States and Sean C Solomon, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States
The Low-Degree Shape of Mercury (73832)
Mark E Perry, Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, Gregory A Neumann, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA, Greenbelt, United States, Erwan Mazarico, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Steven A. Hauck II, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 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, David E Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, Roger J Phillips, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, Jean-Luc Margot, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Catherine Johnson, University of British Columbia, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Carolyn M Ernst, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States and Jürgen Oberst, German Aerospace Center DLR Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Mercury’s global evolution: New views from MESSENGER (69306)
Steven A. Hauck II, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States, Prof. Paul K Byrne, Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, St. Louis, United States, Brett W Denevi, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, Matthias Grott, German Aerospace Center DLR Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Tim McCoy, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, United States and Sabine Stanley, University of Toronto, Physics, Toronto, ON, Canada
THE FIRST GLOBAL GEOLOGICAL MAP OF MERCURY (80930)
Louise M Prockter1, James W Head III2, Prof. Paul K Byrne3, Brett W Denevi4, Mallory Janet Kinczyk4, Caleb Fassett5, Jennifer L Whitten6, Rebecca Thomas7, Carolyn M Ernst4 and MESSENGER Mapping Group, (1)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, United States, (2)Brown University, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, (3)Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, St. Louis, United States, (4)The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (5)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (6)Tulane University, New Orleans, United States, (7)Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Unravelling thermal emissivity spectra of the main minerals on Mercury’s surface by comparison with ab initio calculated IR-HT vibrational frequencies (73104)
Claudia Stangarone1, Jörn Helbert2, Mario Tribaudino1, Alessandro Maturilli3, Mario D'Amore2, Sabrina Ferrari2 and Mauro Prencipe4, (1)University of Parma, Parma, Italy, (2)German Aerospace Center DLR Berlin, Berlin, Germany, (3)German Aerospace Center DLR, Berlin, Germany, (4)University of Turin, Earth Science, Turin, Italy
Studying the surface of Mercury with BepiColombo (64793)
Jörn Helbert, German Aerospace Center DLR Berlin, Berlin, Germany and Johannes Benkhoff, ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands
BepiColombo MPO – Scientific goals revisited? (84338)
Johannes Benkhoff, ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands and Jörn Helbert, German Aerospace Center DLR Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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