P34A
Planetary Geodesy I

Wednesday, 16 December 2015: 16:00-18:00
2011 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Sander J Goossens, UMBC CRESST/ NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Erwan Mazarico, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Antonio Genova, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
Chairs:  Sander J Goossens, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States and Erwan Mazarico, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Antonio Genova, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, United States
16:00
Enabling Planetary Geodesy With the Deep Space Network (Invited) (70337)
Sami W Asmar1, Ryan S Park1, John W Armstrong2, Dustin Buccino2, William M Folkner3, Luciano Iess4, Alex S Konopliv5 and Joseph Lazio5, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)JPL, Altadena, CA, United States, (4)Univ. La Sapienza, Roma, Italy, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
16:15
Navigating the MESSENGER Spacecraft through End of Mission (Invited) (59674)
Christopher George Bryan1, Bobby Gene Williams1, Kenneth E. Williams1, Anthony H. Taylor1, Eric Carranza1, Brian R. Page1, Dale R. Stanbridge1, Erwan Mazarico2, Gregory A Neumann3, Daniel J. O’Shaughnessy4, James V. McAdams4 and Andrew B. Calloway4, (1)KinetX Inc, Tempe, AZ, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA, Baltimore, MD, United States, (4)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States
16:30
Mercury’s gravity field, tidal Love number k2, and spin axis orientation revealed with MESSENGER radio tracking data (67734)
Ashok Kumar Verma and Jean-Luc Margot, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
16:42
Topographic Power Laws and Shape Model Estimation (83069)
Gregory A Neumann, NASA, Baltimore, MD, United States
16:54
First Analysis of Densities Inferred from Accelerometer Data on ESA’s Venus Express (Invited) (59402)
Sean Bruinsma1, Ingo C F Mueller-Wodarg2, Jean-charles Marty1 and Hakan Svedhem3, (1)CNES, Toulouse, France, (2)Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (3)ESTEC, Noordwijk, 2201, Netherlands
17:09
High-resolution gravity field modeling using GRAIL mission data (64700)
Frank G Lemoine1, Sander J Goossens2, Terence J Sabaka3, Joseph B Nicholas4, Erwan Mazarico5, David D Rowlands3, Gregory A Neumann5, Bryant Loomis6, Douglas S Chinn6, David E Smith7 and Maria T Zuber7, (1)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Planetary Geodynamics Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)Emergent Space Technologies, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies (SGT), Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
17:21
Mars Gravity Field and Upper Atmosphere from MGS, Mars Odyssey, and MRO (70135)
Antonio Genova1, Sander J Goossens2, Frank G Lemoine3, Erwan Mazarico4, Gregory A Neumann5, David E Smith1 and Maria T Zuber6, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)NASA, Baltimore, MD, United States, (6)Massachusetts Inst Tech, Cambridge, MA, United States
17:33
Measuring Ganymede's Tidal Deformation by Laser Altimetry: A performance Analysis for the GALA Experiment (69130)
Gregor Steinbrügge, Hauke Hussmann, Alexander Stark, Frank Sohl and Jürgen Oberst, German Aerospace Center DLR Berlin, Berlin, Germany
17:45
Laser Ranging in Solar System: Technology Developments and New Science Measurement Capabilities (Invited) (59439)
Xiaoli Sun1, David E Smith2, Maria T Zuber3, Jan Mcgarry1, Gregory A Neumann4 and Erwan Mazarico1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)Massachusetts Inst Tech, Cambridge, MA, United States, (4)NASA, Baltimore, MD, United States
 
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