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Session Proposal: Dynamic Exospheres of Terrestrial Bodies Through the Solar System and Beyond (AGU25)

P009
Dynamic Exospheres of Terrestrial Bodies Through the Solar System and Beyond

Session ID#: 246850

Session Description:
The exosphere is the only atmospheric layer ubiquitous in all terrestrial bodies. Their composition, energy, and density distribution can provide important insight into atmospheric photochemistry (Venus), atmospheric evolution timeline (Earth, Mars, Venus, Titan), surface composition via interactions with the Sun (Mercury, Earth and Jovian's moons), and space weather effects through coupling with the solar wind and the local plasma environment (Jovian moons, Earth, Mars, Titan). This session focuses on investigations of exospheres of terrestrial bodies throughout the solar system and other stellar systems (exoplanets). Topics for this session include physics- and data-based modeling of exospheres, remote sensing techniques including space- and ground-based UV and visible light observations, inversion methods to retrieve density distributions, the interaction of the neutral exospheres with local plasma population ( solar/stellar wind, plasmasphere, ionospheres), estimations of atmospheric escape rates (due to planetary orbital location and solar/stellar activity), and presentations of current/upcoming missions aimed for exospheric observations.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • NG - Nonlinear Geophysics
  • SA - SPA-Aeronomy
  • SH - SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics
  • SM - SPA-Magnetospheric Physics
Index Terms:

0328 Exosphere [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
5405 Atmospheres [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
5464 Remote sensing [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
6005 Atmospheres [PLANETARY SCIENCES: COMETS AND SMALL BODIES]
Primary Convener:  Gonzalo Cucho-Padin, Catholic University of America, Washington, United States; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
Conveners:  Dolon Bhattacharyya, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, Edwin Mierkiewicz, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, United States and Carl Schmidt, Boston University, Astronomy; Center for Space Physics, Boston, MA, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Gonzalo Cucho-Padin, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States; Catholic University of America, Washington, United States
 
Observing Planetary Exospheres (Invited) (1852457)
Larry J Paxton, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States
 
Mars' Dynamic Exosphere, and its Unexpected Drivers from Above and Below (Invited) (1854211)
Sumedha Gupta1, Nicholas McCord Schneider2, Justin Deighan3, Michael Chaffin4, Dr. Andrea C. G. Hughes5 and Sonal Jain3, (1)LASP, U. Colorado, Boulder, United States, (2)Univ Colorado, Boulder, United States, (3)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (4)University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
A Machine Learning-based Model of the Terrestrial Exospheric Emission Using Lyman-Alpha Radiance Data Acquired by NASA's TWINS Mission (1857124)
Roya Akrami1, Gonzalo Cucho-Padin2, Hyunju KIM Connor2, David G Sibeck3, Yamuna Phal4, Dolon Bhattacharyya5 and Barbara J Thompson6, (1)Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (3)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (4)Colorado School of Mines, Golden, United States, (5)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (6)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States
 
Variability and Escape of the Martian Upper Atmosphere from a Decade of MAVEN/IUVS Observations (1871342)
Jianqi Qin, Hang Liu, Zhen Xu and Fengxing Yang, Peking University, Beijing, China
 
The observational feasibility of extended atmospheres on terrestrial exoplanets in a runaway greenhouse state by Ultraviolet transit spectroscopy (1877580)
Ryuga Kato1, Akifumi Nakayama2 and Shingo Kameda1, (1)Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan, (2)Rikkyo University, Department of Physics, College of Science, Tokyo, Japan
 
Three-dimensional reconstruction of the terrestrial exospheric H density distributions using images acquired at the Lagrangian point 1 and a statistical approach. (1885045)
Gonzalo Cucho-Padin1, Hyunju KIM Connor1, David G Sibeck2 and Dolon Bhattacharyya3, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (2)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (3)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States
 
Exospheric Impact on Earth’s Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere System (1897109)
Sang-Yun Lee, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Hyunju KIM Connor, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Suk-Bin Kang, Catholic University of America, Washington, United States and Liying Qian, National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, United States
 
Simulated Impacts of NO Cooling on Exospheric Hydrogen Using the Gravity-Only MATE Model (1916691)
Jaewoong Jung, University of Rhode Island, Department of Physics, Narragansett, RI, United States, Hyunju KIM Connor, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States and Liying Qian, National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, United States
 
Seasonal Comparisons of Observed Geocoronal Balmer-α & Forward Modeled WACCM-X Column Emission Intensities & Line Profiles (1917652)
Lauren Ashworth1, Edwin Mierkiewicz2, Susan M Nossal3, Liying Qian4, Joseph M McInerney5, L. Matthew Haffner2 and Roland Carey Woodward Jr6, (1)Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, United States, (2)Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, United States, (3)Univ Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, United States, (5)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, United States, (6)University of Wisconsin Fond du Lac, Computer Science, Engineering, Physics & Astronomy, Fond du Lac, United States
 
The Effects of Charge Exchange on Hydrogen in a Coupled Thermosphere-Exosphere Model (1918163)
Sarah Luettgen1, Eric K Sutton2, Jeffrey P Thayer1 and Naomi Maruyama3, (1)University of Colorado Boulder, Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Space Weather Technology, Research, and Education Center, Boulder, United States, (3)University of Colorado, Boulder, United States
 
NUV Observations of Mars with the Colorado Ultraviolet Transit Experiment (CUTE) CubeSat (1922825)
Dolon Bhattacharyya1, Ankit Mishra2, Kevin France1, Arika Egan3, Sebastian Escobar1 and Sonal Jain1, (1)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (2)Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India, (3)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
 
A Multi Line Investigation of the Hydrogen Geocorona (1961939)
Sarah Hoover1, Edwin Mierkiewicz2, Lauren Ashworth1, Susan M Nossal3 and L. Matthew Haffner2, (1)Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, United States, (2)Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, United States, (3)Univ Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States
 
The KInetic-based Terrestrial Exospheric (KITE) model (1965239)
Cristian Ferradas, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, Gonzalo Cucho-Padin, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Urbana, United States, Dolon Bhattacharyya, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, Hyunju KIM Connor, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Mei-Ching Hannah Fok, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Suk-Bin Kang, Catholic University of America, Washington, United States
 
Measuring Earth’s Exosphere Using Solar Irradiance Observations (1967132)
Lily Wood, University of New Mexico Main Campus, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Samuel Schonfeld, Air Force Research Laboratory Albuquerque, Albuquerque, United States and Gonzalo Cucho-Padin, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States; Catholic University of America, Washington, United States
 
Fourier-Based Dynamic Filtering in Strofio for Spacecraft Outgassing Suppression at Mercury (1980307)
Jared Schroeder1,2, Stefano A Livi2, Frederic Allegrini2, Stefano Orsini3, Anna Milillo3, Elisabetta De Angelis4, Ali Varsani5, Stanislav V Barabash6 and Alessandro Aronica3, (1)University of Texas at San Antonio, Physics, San Antonio, TX, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (3)INAF-IAPS, Rome, Italy, (4)IAPS-INAF, Rome, Italy, (5)Austrian Academy of Sciences, Space Research Institute, Graz, Austria, (6)Swedish Inst Space Physics, Kiruna, Sweden
 
Contribution of multiple scattering to the Lyman alpha radiance distribution in cometary comae (1981961)
Yudai Suzuki1, Kazuo Yoshioka2, Kei Masunaga3, Go Murakami4, Hideyo Kawakita5, Yoshiharu Shinnaka5, Tomoki Kimura6, Fuminori Tsuchiya7, Atsushi Yamazaki8 and Ichiro Yoshikawa2, (1)Institute of Space and Astronautical Sciences, Tokyo, Tokyo, JAPAN, (2)The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (3)Yamagata University, Yamagata, Japan, (4)ISAS-JAXA, Sagamihara, Japan, (5)Koyama Astronomical Observatory, Kyoto Sangyo Univetsity, Kyoto, Japan, (6)Tokyo University of Science, Faculty of Science Division I, Department of Physics, Tokyo, Japan, (7)Tohoku University, Department of Geophysics, Graduate School of Science, Sendai, Japan, (8)ISAS/JAXA, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan
 
Quantifying the impact of exospheric variability on plasmasphere refilling (1984455)
Naomi Maruyama1, Kausik Chatterjee2, Jaden Fitzpatrick1 and Gonzalo Cucho-Padin3, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (2)University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, United States, (3)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Urbana, United States
 
Multiple Line-of-Sight Observation of Night-Side Exospheric Emission (1984848)
Jackson Craig, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Attleboro, MA, UNITED STATES, Robert Kerr, Computational Physics Inc., Lowell, Lowell, United States, Lara Waldrop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States, Michal Ondrejcek, University of Illinois, Coordinated Sciences Laboratory, Champaign, United States, Aaron Holl, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, United States and Pratik Joshi, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States
 
An Investigation of the Spatial and Temporal Distributions of Less Abundant and Weakly Emitting Species in Mercury’s Exosphere (1986998)
Ronald J Vervack Jr, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, Rosemary M Killen, NASA Goddard Space Flight Cent, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Carl Schmidt, Boston University, Astronomy; Center for Space Physics, Boston, MA, United States, Aimee W Merkel, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States and Matthew H Burger, STScI, Baltimore, MD, United States
 
The Hydrogen Emission Line Interferometric eXplorer (HELIX): Suborbital exploration of exospheric hydrogen at high spectral resolving power (1988294)
Walter Harris, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States and Jason Corliss, Dolon Bhattacharyya, Gonzalo Cucho-Padin, Edwin Mierkiewicz
 
Sputtering contributions to Mercury’s exosphere: MESSENGER/UVVS observations during a strong ICME (1988888)
Aimee W Merkel, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, Ronald J Vervack Jr, The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, United States, Carl Schmidt, Boston University, Astronomy; Center for Space Physics, Boston, MA, United States and Willi Exner, European Space Agency, Braunschweig, Germany
 
Challenges in Optically Thick Radiative Transfer Retrievals of H Corona Parameters from H Lyman Alpha Emission (1996046)
Michael Chaffin1, Justin Deighan2, Sonal Jain2, Greg Holsclaw3, Susarla Raghuram2, Hoor Abdelrahman AlMazmi4, Krishnaprasad Chirakkil5, John Correira6, Scott England7, Frank Eparvier8, J. Scott Evans9, Matthew O. Fillingim10, Robert J Lillis11, Fatma Hussain Lootah12, Edward Thiemann13, Eric Quemerais14, Majd Mayyasi15, John T Clarke16, Nicholas McCord Schneider17, Shannon Curry13 and Hessa Rashid Almatroushi18, (1)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (3)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, United States, (4)UAE Space Agency, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, (5)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Computational Physics Inc. Springfield, Springfield, VA, United States, (7)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, Blacksburg, United States, (8)University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (9)Computational Physics, Inc., Springfield, United States, (10)University of California, Berkeley, United States, (11)Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (12)Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre, Al Khawaneej, United Arab Emirates, (13)University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (14)LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris Cedex 05, France, (15)Boston University, Center for Space Physics, Boston, MA, United States, (16)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, (17)Univ Colorado, Boulder, United States, (18)Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Center, Al Khawaneej, United Arab Emirates
 
Design and Performance of the Carruthers Geocoronal Imager (1999124)
Thomas J Immel1, Martin M Sirk2, Alex Zhang3, Jason Mcphate4, William Craig5, Cathy Chou5, Ed Wishnow5, Kodi Rider6, Anna L Butterworth1, Lara Waldrop7, John T Clarke8, Evan Widloski3, Pascal Blain9 and Jérémy Brisbois10, (1)University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Urbana, United States, (4)University California Berkeley, Space Sciences Lab, Berkeley, United States, (5)University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (6)University of California, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (7)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States, (8)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, (9)University of Liège, Centre Spatial de Liège, Liège, Belgium, (10)University of Liège, Centre Spatial de Liege, Liège, Belgium
 
Exospheric sensing with the NASA Carruthers Geocorona Observatory (2004479)
Lara Waldrop1, John T Clarke2, Thomas J Immel3, Heather Filippini4, Alex Zhang5, Pratik Joshi6, Evan Widloski5 and Michal Ondrejcek4, (1)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States, (2)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, (3)University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (4)University of Illinois, Coordinated Sciences Laboratory, Champaign, United States, (5)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Urbana, United States, (6)University of Illinois, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Urbana, United States
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