P23F:
Planet Mercury: Present Understanding and Promise for Future Discovery II Posters


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Session ID#: 43603

Session Description:
Our understanding of Mercury's surface, interior, exosphere, and magnetosphere has been revolutionized by data returned by NASA's MESSENGER mission. With the launch of the ESA–JAXA BepiColombo dual spacecraft mission to Mercury in October this year, that understanding will take another substantial step forward. We solicit contributed papers on data analysis, laboratory measurements, ground-based observations, and theoretical developments that build on the current state of knowledge of Mercury. We also welcome papers on how questions raised by MESSENGER findings can be addressed by future observations expected from BepiColombo.
Primary Convener:  Prof. Paul K Byrne, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States
Conveners:  Johannes Benkhoff, European Space Agency, Noordwijk Zh, Netherlands and Sean C Solomon, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Prof. Paul K Byrne, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States
Chairs:  Prof. Paul K Byrne, Universities Space Research Association, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States and Johannes Benkhoff, European Space Agency, Noordwijk Zh, Netherlands
OSPA Liaison:  Prof. Paul K Byrne, Universities Space Research Association, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, 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:

BepiColombo en route to Mercury (430296)
Johannes Benkhoff, European Space Research and Technology Centre, Noordwijk Zh, Netherlands
Effects of the Solar Wind on Mercury's Exosphere: Hybrid Simulations (460122)
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 James Slavin, University of Michigan, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Minnesota, United States
SHOTS: Comparison of numerical approaches for the solar wind interaction with Mercury’s magnetosphere within the BepiColombo simulation group (390332)
Sae Aizawa1,2, Willi Exner3, Léa Sophie Griton4, Shahab Fatemi5, Manabu Yagi6, Jorge Amaya7, Lucas Liuzzo8, Hideyuki Usui9, Go Murakami10, Daniel Heyner11 and Satoki Oki9, (1)LPP, Ecole Polytechnique, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Jussieu, Paris, France, (2)Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, (3)Technical University of Braunschweig, Institute for Geophysics and extraterrestrial Physics, Braunschweig, Germany, (4)LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Univ. Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 5 place Jules Janssen, Meudon, France, (5)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Kiruna, Kiruna, Sweden, (6)RIKEN, R-CCS, Kobe, Japan, (7)Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Department of Mathematics, Leuven, Belgium, (8)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States, (9)Kobe University, Kobe, Japan, (10)ISAS-JAXA, Sagamihara, Japan, (11)TU Braunschweig, Institute of Geophysics and Extraterrestrial Physics, Braunschweig, Germany
The First Map of Mercury's Northern Hemisphere Near Subsurface Hydrogen from MESSENGER GRNS Data (446293)
Jack Thomas Wilson1, Patrick N Peplowski1 and David J Lawrence2, (1)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States
Isostasy on Mercury in the Presence of Lateral Variations of Crustal Density (430742)
Mikael Beuthe1, Attilio Rivoldini1, Tim Van Hoolst1, Bernard Charlier2 and Olivier Namur3, (1)Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium, (2)University of Liège, Department of Geology, Sart Tilman, Belgium, (3)KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Line-of-sight accelerations of the MESSENGER spacecraft (364021)
Peter B. James, Baylor University, Waco, TX, United States, Sander J Goossens, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States and Erwan M Mazarico, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
The interior structure of Mercury constrained by geodesy data and present-day thermal state (412142)
Attilio Rivoldini, Mikael Beuthe, Marie-Hélène Deproost, Rose-Marie Baland and Tim Van Hoolst, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
Mercury's Core Radius Derived from its External and Internal Magnetic Field Variations (438787)
Ingo Wardinski, LPGN Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique de Nantes, Nantes Cedex 03, France, Benoit Langlais, Laboratoire de Planetologie et Geosciences / CNRS, Nantes, France and Erwan Thebault, LPG, UMR CNRS 6112, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France
Mercury’s Core Field: Beyond the Offset Axial Dipole (422305)
Alain Plattner, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States and Catherine Johnson, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, United States
Implications of the Homogeneous Nucleation Barrier for Top-Down Crystallization in Mercury's Core (451547)
Ludovic Huguet1, Steven A. Hauck II2, James Van Orman3 and Zhicheng Jing3, (1)Université Grenoble Alpes, ISTerre, Grenoble, France, (2)Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States, (3)Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, United States
Sound wave velocities of Fe5Si at high pressure and high temperature conditions: implications to lunar and Mercurian cores (362083)
Liwei Deng1, Yoshio Kono2 and Guoyin Shen2, (1)Beijing, China, (2)Carnegie Instituion of Washing, Argonne, IL, United States

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