SM14B
Magnetospheres in the Inner Solar System I

Monday, 14 December 2015: 16:00-18:00
2009 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Gina A DiBraccio, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Solar System Exploration Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Daniel J Gershman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Science Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Marissa F. Vogt, Boston University, Center for Space Physics, Boston, MA, United States
Chairs:  Gina A DiBraccio1, Daniel J Gershman1 and Marissa F. Vogt2, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Solar System Exploration Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States(2)Boston University, Center for Space Physics, Boston, MA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Gina A DiBraccio, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Solar System Exploration Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States
16:00
Concerning the Interaction between Magnetopause Erosion and Induction at Mercury (Invited) (82702)
Daniel Heyner, Technical University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
16:16
MESSENGER Observations of the Dayside Low-Latitude Boundary Layer in Mercury's Magnetosphere (59006)
Elisabet Ida Liljeblad1, Tomas Karlsson1, Jim M Raines2, James A Slavin3, Anita Kullen4, Torbjorn Sundberg5 and Thomas Zurbuchen3, (1)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, (2)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (4)EES KTH Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden, (5)Queen Mary, University of London, London, E1, United Kingdom
16:28
Plasma precipitation on Mercury’s nightside and its implications for magnetospheric convection and exosphere generation. (72497)
Jim M Raines1, James A Slavin2, Patrick Tracy2, Daniel J Gershman1,3, Thomas Zurbuchen2, Haje Korth4, Brian J Anderson5 and Sean C Solomon6, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, 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)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, (5)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (6)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States
16:40
MESSENGER Observation on Reconnection and Structure of Mercury’s Magnetotail Lobes and Plasma Sheet (64531)
Gang Kai Poh1, James A Slavin1, Xianzhe Jia1, Jim M Raines2, Wei-Jie Sun3, Daniel J Gershman4 and Brian J Anderson5, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)Peking University, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Beijing, China, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Solar System Exploration Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States
16:52
MESSENGER Observations of Substorm Activity at Mercury (79123)
Wei-Jie Sun1, James A Slavin2, Suiyan Fu1, Jim M Raines3, Qiu-Gang Zong1, Gangkai Poh2, Xianzhe Jia2, Torbjorn Sundberg4, Daniel J Gershman5, Zuyin Pu6, Thomas Zurbuchen2 and Quanqi Shi7, (1)Peking University, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (4)Queen Mary, University of London, London, E1, United Kingdom, (5)Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (6)Peking University, Beijing, China, (7)Shandong University at Weihai, Weihai, China
17:04
The magnetospheric dynamics of Earth and Mercury (Invited) (79442)
Suzanne M Imber, Radio and Space Plasma Physics, Leicester, United Kingdom
17:20
An Overview of the Induced Magnetospheres of Mars and Venus from a Modeling Standpoint (Invited) (60769)
Yingjuan Ma, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Christopher T Russell, University of California Los Angeles, IGPP/EPSS, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Andrew F Nagy, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
17:36
Variation of Mars’ Induced Magnetospheric Boundaries over the Last Solar Cycle (71977)
Benjamin Edward Stanley Hall1, Beatriz Sanchez-Cano2, David J Andrews3, Mark Lester4, Hermann J Opgenoorth5, Jonathan D Nichols2 and Markus Fraenz6, (1)University of Leicester, Radio and Space Plasma Physics Group, Physics and Astronomy, Leicester, United Kingdom, (2)University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom, (3)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (4)University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1, United Kingdom, (5)Swedish Inst. of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden, (6)Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany
17:48
Understanding the Transient Layers in the Ionosphere of Mars with Mars Express and MAVEN (82802)
Andrew James Kopf1, Donald A Gurnett1, David DeWitt Morgan1 and Jasper S Halekas2, (1)University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States, (2)University of Iowa, Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States