P024
Mercury: The Continuing and Future Exploration of the Innermost Planet
Session ID#: 82251
Session Description:
NASA's MESSENGER mission revolutionized our understanding of Mercury's surface, interior, exosphere, and magnetosphere. With the successful launch of the ESA–JAXA BepiColombo dual spacecraft mission to Mercury in October 2018, that understanding will soon take another substantial step forward. In this session, we welcome contributions on data analysis, laboratory measurements, ground-based observations, and theoretical developments that build on the current state of knowledge of Mercury. We particularly welcome papers on how questions raised by MESSENGER findings can be addressed by future observations expected from BepiColombo.
Index Terms:
5405 Atmospheres [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
5430 Interiors [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
5443 Magnetospheres [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
6235 Mercury [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
Primary Convener: Paul K Byrne, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States
Conveners: Sean C Solomon, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Johannes Benkhoff, ESA ESTEC, Noordwijk Zh, Netherlands and Masaki Fujimoto, JAXA, Sgamihara, Japan
Primary Liaison: Paul K Byrne, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Universities Space Research Association, Houston, TX, United States
The SERENA/Strofio Sensor Onboard BepiColombo (485123)
Stefano A Livi1, George C Ho2, Frederic Allegrini3, Peter Wurz4, H. T. Smith2 and Mihir Indrajit Desai1, (1)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (2)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (3)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (4)University of Bern, Physics Institute, Space Research and Planetary Sciences, Bern, Switzerland
Temporal evolution of the permanent shadowed regions at Mercury poles: applications for spectral detection of ice by SIMBIOSYS-VIHI on BepiColombo mission (490524)
Gianrico Filacchione1, Alessandro Frigeri1, Andrea Raponi1, Mauro Ciarniello1, Fabrizio Capaccioni1, Maria Cristina De Sanctis1, Gabriele Cremonese2, Valentina Galluzzi3 and Alice Lucchetti4, (1)IAPS-INAF, Rome, Italy, (2)INAF - Astronomical Observatory of Padova, Padova, Italy, (3)INAF, Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali, Rome, Italy, (4)Universita' di Padova, CISAS, Padova, Italy
Asymmetric magnetic anomalies over fresh impact craters on Mercury (491540)
Valentina Galluzzi1, Joana S. Oliveira2,3, Jack Wright4, Lon L. Hood5 and David A Rothery4, (1)INAF, Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali, Rome, Italy, (2)ESA, European Space Research and Technology Centre, Noordwijk Zh, Netherlands, (3)CITEUC, Geophysical and Astronomical Observatory, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, (4)School of Physical Sciences, Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, (5)University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, AZ, United States
Aubrite meteorites as geochemical analogues to Mercury (Invited) (497675)
Arya Udry1, Zoe E. Wilbur2, Francis M McCubbin3, Kathleen E Vander Kaaden4, Karen G Ziegler5, Christopher DeFelice1, Tim McCoy6, Juliane Gross7 and Brent D Turrin8, (1)University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, United States, (2)University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Tucson, United States, (3)NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (4)Jacobs Technology, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (5)Univ of NM-Inst of Meteoritics, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (6)Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States, (7)Rutgers University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Piscataway, NJ, United States, (8)Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, United States
BepiColombo – Status and next Activities (498882)
Johannes Benkhoff, European Space Research and Technology Centre, Noordwijk Zh, Netherlands, Go Murakami, JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara, Japan, Patrick Martin, European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) European Space Agency (ESA), Villafranca del Castillo, Villanueva de la Canada, Spain and Joe Zender, ESAC, ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Consequences of Charged Particle Precipitation onto High Latitude Permanently Shadowed Ice Water Deposits at Mercury (500581)
David Schriver, University of California Los Angeles, Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Pavel M. Travnicek, University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Mona Delitsky, California Specialty Engineering, Pasadena, CA, United States, George C Ho, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States and Nicole Echterling, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
The Topography of Polar Ice Deposits on Mercury from the Mercury Laser Altimeter: Implications for ice thickness. (Invited) (501059)
Hannah C M Susorney1, Catherine Johnson2,3 and Lydia C Philpott2, (1)University of British Columbia, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Vancouver, Canada, (2)University of British Columbia, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (3)Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, United States
Mercury's Large-Scale Non-Axisymmetric Internal Field from MESSENGER Data (523123)
Alain Plattner, University of Alabama, Department of Geological Sciences, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States and Catherine Johnson, University of British Columbia, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States
In Situ Mineralogical Analysis of Mercury using X-ray Diffraction and X-ray Fluorescence (547255)
David Frederick Blake1, Francis M McCubbin2, Philippe Sarrazin3, Thomas Bristow1 and Kris Zacny4, (1)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (2)NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, United States, (3)SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, CA, United States, (4)Honeybee Robotics, Exploration Technology Group, Pasadena, CA, United States
New analysis of Mercury Laser Altimeter crossovers with an advanced data weighting to improve geodetic constraints by MESSENGER (571335)
Stefano Bertone1, Erwan Mazarico2, Michael Barker3, Sander J Goossens1, Antonio Genova4, Terence J Sabaka2, Gregory A Neumann2 and David E. Smith5, (1)NASA GSFC / UMBC CRESST, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (4)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (5)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
Mercury’s Anomalous Magnetic Field as a Result of Symmetry-breaking Self-regulating Dynamo (572226)
Futoshi Takahashi, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, Hisayoshi Shimizu, Univ Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan and Hideo Tsunakawa, Tokyo Inst. Tech., Tokyo, Japan
The Distribution of Heat-producing Elements during Mercury Evolution (574357)
Hadrien Pirotte, University of Liege, Liège, Belgium, Camille Cartier, CRPG Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques, Vandoeuvre-Les-Nancy, France, Olivier Namur, University of Leuven, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Leuven, Belgium, Anne Pommier, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States and Bernard Charlier, University of Liège, Department of Geology, Sart Tilman, Belgium
Surface Mineralogy of Geochemical Terranes of Mercury from NIR-MIR (0.7-20 mm) using Ground-Based NASA IRTF SpeX and MIRSI Facility (576768)
Indhu Varatharajan, German Aerospace Center DLR Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Constantine Tsang, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, Kay Wohlfarth, TU Dortmund, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Image Analysis Group, Dortmund, Germany, Christian Wöhler, TU Dortmund, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Image Analysis Group, Dortmund, Germany, Noam Izenberg, Johns Hopkins Univ, Laurel, MD, United States and Jörn Helbert, DLR, Berlin, Germany
Modelled MHD Instabilities and Magnetic Reconnection at the Mercury’s Magnetopause in Preparation for BepiColombo/SERENA Experiment (577794)
Stavro Ivanovski1, Anna Milillo2, Monio D Kartalev3, Stefano Massetti4, Stefano Orsini2, Valeria Mangano2, Christina Plainaki5, Adrian Kazakov6, Roberto Sordini6, Alessandro Mura6, Elisabetta De Angelis2, Rosanna Rispoli2, Francesco Lazzarotto2, Alessandro Aronica2 and Raffaella Noschese6, (1)National Institute for Astrophysics, Astronomical Observatory of Trieste, Trieste, Italy, (2)INAF-IAPS, Rome, Italy, (3)Inst Mechanics, Sofia, Bulgaria, (4)INAF / IAPS, Rome, Italy, (5)Italian Space Agency, Rome, Italy, (6)IAPS-INAF, Rome, Italy
Effects of the Solar Wind Conditions on Mercury's Exosphere: Hybrid Simulations (579466)
Pavel Travnicek, Bereley, California, United States, David Schriver, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Thomas M Orlando, Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States and James A Slavin, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
First Solar Wind Measurements from the Planetary Magnetometer Onboard the BepiColombo Spacecraft (579824)
Daniel Heyner1, Ingo Richter1, Ferdinand Plaschke2, David Fischer3, Johannes Mieth1, Hans Ulrich Auster1 and Karl-Heinz Glassmeier1, (1)Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany, (2)IWF ÖAW, Graz, Austria, (3)Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria
Modeling the Transport, Loss and Deposition of Water on Mercury (588141)
Parvathy Prem1, Dana Hurley1, Elizabeth L. McFarland1, Nancy L Chabot1, Carolyn M Ernst1 and David B Goldstein2, (1)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Austin, TX, United States
Photoionization as a loss process of the Sodium Exosphere at Mercury: A Seasonal dependence observed by MESSENGER (597266)
Jamie Matthew Jasinski, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Tim Cassidy, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Jim M Raines, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Neil Murphy, JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States and James A Slavin, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
The BepiColombo Quick-Look Analysis (QLA) system: A look inside science data (606569)
Thomas Cornet1, Mark S Bentley2, Alan James Macfarlane2, Santa Martinez3, Marian A Cuevas1, Nicolas Fajersztejn1, Marco Freschi1, Daniel Galan1, Inaki Ortiz de Landaluce1, Fran Vallejo4 and Science Ground Segment , (1)European Space Agency, Villanueva De La Canada, Spain, (2)European Space Agency, Villanueva De La Can, Spain, (3)European Space Agency, Villanueva de la Canada, Spain, (4)European Space Agency, Villanueva de La Canada, Spain