P53C:
Mercury: New Discoveries, Future Opportunities II Posters

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Session ID#: 21994

Session Description:
NASA's MESSENGER mission returned unprecedented measurements of Mercury's surface, interior, exosphere, and magnetosphere that collectively have revolutionized our understanding of the innermost planet. We solicit contributed papers on data analysis, ground-based observations, laboratory measurements, and theoretical developments that contribute to our understanding of Mercury's geological evolution, its geophysical and geochemical characteristics, and the interaction of its exosphere and magnetosphere with the solar wind and interplanetary magnetic field. We also welcome papers on future mission opportunities, as well as how MESSENGER discoveries can inform questions to be addressed by the upcoming ESA–JAXA BepiColombo mission to Mercury.
Primary Convener:  Prof. Paul K Byrne, Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, St. Louis, United States
Conveners:  Sean C Solomon, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States and Johannes Benkhoff, ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Chairs:  Johannes Benkhoff, ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands and Sean C Solomon, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Prof. Paul K Byrne, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States
Index Terms:

5455 Origin and evolution [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
6235 Mercury [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Non-thermal Processes in the Formation of Mercury’s Tenuous Exosphere (263423)
Micah J Schaible1,2, Christopher Bennett3, Brant M Jones2 and Thomas M Orlando4, (1)University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States, (2)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Atlanta, GA, United States, (3)University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, United States, (4)Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Atlanta, United States
Effects of the Solar Wind Pressure on Mercury's Exosphere: Hybrid Simulations (254479)
Pavel M. Travnicek, University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, David Schriver, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Thomas M Orlando, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Atlanta, United States and Petr Hellinger, Astronomical Institute & Institute of Atmospheric Physics, AS CR, Prague, Czech Republic
Deconvolution of Thermal Emissivity Spectra of Mercury to their Endmember Counterparts measured in Simulated Mercury Surface Conditions (239105)
Indhu Varatharajan1, Mario D'Amore1, Alessandro Maturilli2, Jörn Helbert2 and Harald Hiesinger3, (1)German Aerospace Center DLR Berlin, Berlin, Germany, (2)German Aerospace Center DLR, Berlin, Germany, (3)University of Münster, Institute for Planetology, Münster, Germany
Thermal Infrared Spectra of a Suite of Forsterite Samples and Ab-initio Modelling of theirs Spectra (231284)
Alessandro Maturilli1, Claudia Stangarone2, Jörn Helbert3, Mario Tribaudino2 and Mauro Prencipe4, (1)German Aerospace Center DLR, Berlin, Germany, (2)University of Parma, Parma, Italy, (3)DLR, Berlin, Germany, (4)University of Turin, Earth Science, Turin, Italy
Updated science issues and observation plans of BepiColombo Mercury Magnetosphere Orbiter (MMO) (274655)
Go Murakami, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Kanagawa, Japan, Masaki Fujimoto, JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara, Japan, Hajime Hayakawa, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara, Japan and The BepiColombo MMO Science Working Group

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