P11F:
At the Edge of Planetary Geodesy I
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Session ID#: 32245
Session Description:
The Geodesy of Solar System bodies consists of modeling and measuring their shape, topography, and gravity field including variations in their rotation and orientation. Geodetic investigations are involved in many spacecraft missions and provide information on the internal structure of planets, satellites, asteroids and comets.
The heart of geodetic measurements is precise positioning of spacecraft orbiting these bodies or landers at their surface. The accuracy of this positioning is currently the main limitation of the internal mass distribution derived from these measurements. New instrumentations and innovative ideas of mission design are thus required to enhance the scientific return of geodetic experiments.
This session aims to present state-of-the-art results of planetary geodesy while assessing how much the positioning accuracy could be improved by applying new ideas and concepts under preparation or design.
Contributions from the most recent, on-going and future missions around telluric and giant planets including their moons are welcome.
Primary Convener: Pascal Rosenblatt, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
Conveners: Sander J Goossens, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, United States, Stefano Bertone, NASA GSFC / UMBC CRESST, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Antonio Genova, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
Chairs: Stefano Bertone, NASA GSFC / UMBC CRESST, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Sander J Goossens, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, United States, Antonio Genova, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States and Pascal Rosenblatt, Observatoire Royal de Belgique, Brussel, Belgium
OSPA Liaison: Sander J Goossens, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, United States
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Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Tim Van Hoolst, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
Luciano Iess1, Erwan Mazarico2, Jeffrey C Andrews-Hanna3, Fabrizio De Marchi1, Gaetano Di Achille4, Mauro Di Benedetto1 and Dr. Suzanne E Smrekar, PhD5, (1)Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Colorado School of Mines, Golden, United States, (4)Istituto Nazionale Di Astrofisica - OATe Collurania, Teramo, Italy, (5)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Erwan Mazarico1, Sander J Goossens2, Michael Kenneth Barker1, Gregory A Neumann3, Maria T Zuber4 and David E Smith5, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Center for Research and Exploration in Space Science and Technology, Baltimore, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA, Greenbelt, United States, (4)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (5)Massachusetts Inst Tech, Cambridge, MA, United States
James Tuttle Keane, California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, United States, Brandon C Johnson, Brown University, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, Isamu Matsuyama, University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, AZ, United States and Matthew Siegler, Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, Honolulu, United States
Daniel Hestroffer, Observatoire de Paris, université PSL, IMCCE, Paris, France, Marco Agnan, Odysseus Space, Co. Ltd, NCKU National Cheng Kung University, DAA, Tainan, Taiwan, Boris Segret, Observatoire de Paris, université PSL, LESIA, Meudon, France, Gary Quinsac, Observatoire de Paris, université PSL, LESIA, Paris, France, Jordan Vannitsen, Odysseus Space, Co. Ltd., NCKU National Cheng Kung University, DAA, Tainan, Taiwan, Jiun-Jih Miau, NCKU National Cheng Kung University, DAA, Tainan, Taiwan and Pascal Rosenblatt, Géoazur - Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, Valbonne, France
Valery Lainey, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States; Observatoire de Paris, Paris, France
Martin Paetzold, University of Cologne; Rheinisches Institut fuer Umweltforschung (RIU), Department of Planetary Research, Cologne, Germany
Maria T Zuber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, David E Smith, Massachusetts Inst Tech, Cambridge, MA, United States, Erwan M Mazarico, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Antonio Genova, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, United States, Gregory A Neumann, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA, Greenbelt, United States and Xiaoli Sun, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
