P22B:
Planet Mercury: Present Understanding and Promise for Future Discovery I


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Session ID#: 60203

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, Universities Space Research Association, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States
Chairs:  Prof. Paul K Byrne, Universities Space Research Association, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States and Sean C Solomon, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
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:

Current status and updated operations plans of Mercury Magnetosphere Orbiter “Mio” for BepiColombo (429735)
Go Murakami, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Kanagawa, Japan, Masaki Fujimoto, JAXA, Sgamihara, Japan, Hajime Hayakawa, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara, Japan and BepiColombo MMO Science Working Group
BepiColombo Plasma Investigations after MESSENGER (Invited) (353967)
Dominique Delcourt, LPC2E-CNRS, Orlean, France
Multi-Sensor Analysis of Mercury’s Energetic Electron Events (419785)
Romina Nikoukar, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, David J Lawrence, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, Christy Lentz, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, Ryan M. Dewey, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States and Daniel N Baker, University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States
Hydrogen in Mercury’s Exosphere: MESSENGER Data and Modeling (352943)
Dana Hurley1, Ronald J Vervack Jr1, Wayne Robert Pryor2 and Rosemary M Killen3, (1)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)Central Arizona College, Science & Engineering Division, Coolidge, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Cent, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Concurrent Lucky Imaging and Spectroscopy of the Mercury Exosphere with the Rapid Imaging Planetary Spectrograph (461672)
Carl Schmidt1, Jeffrey L Baumgardner1, Luke Moore2, Ryan Swindle3 and Cody Lance Shaw4, (1)Boston University, Center for Space Physics, Boston, MA, United States, (2)Boston University, Astronomy; Center for Space Physics, Boston, United States, (3)Air Force Research Laboratory, Haleakala Observatory, United States, (4)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Manoa, HI, United States
Polar Ice on Mercury: Insight into Delivery Timing and Sources from Crater and Poisson Analyses (396482)
Ariel Deutsch, Brown University, Providence, United States, James W Head III, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, United States and Gregory A Neumann, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA, Greenbelt, United States
Examining the Presence and Valence of Iron on the Surface of Mercury Post-MESSENGER: Open Questions Awaiting BepiColombo Results (Invited) (396392)
Kathleen E Vander Kaaden1, Francis McCubbin2, Richard Lee Rowland II1, Richard V Morris3, Rachel L Klima4, Karen Stockstill-Cahill5 and David G Agresti6, (1)Jacobs Technology, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (2)NASA Johnson Space Center, Astromaterials Acquisition and Curation Office, Houston, TX, United States, (3)NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (4)JHU Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, United States, (5)JHU-APL, Laurel, MD, United States, (6)University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States
Mantle melting productivity on Mercury and the relation with crustal thickness (404715)
Bernard Charlier1, Mikael Beuthe2, Olivier Namur3, Attilio Rivoldini2 and Tim Van Hoolst2, (1)Université de Liège, Liege, Belgium, (2)Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium, (3)KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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