P088
Mercury: From MESSENGER to BepiColombo I

Thursday, 17 December 2020: 04:00-05:00
Virtual
Primary Convener:  Paul K Byrne, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States
Conveners:  Masaki Fujimoto, JAXA, Sgamihara, Japan and Sean C Solomon, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Paul K Byrne, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States
Chairs:  Masaki Fujimoto, JAXA, Sgamihara, Japan and Paul K Byrne, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Paul K Byrne, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States
04:00
A transient enhancement of Mercury’s exosphere observed at extremely high altitudes in the solar wind (663495)
Jamie Matthew Jasinski1, Leonardo Regoli2, Tim Cassidy3, Ryan M. Dewey4, Jim M Raines4, James A Slavin5, Andrew J Coates6, Daniel J Gershman7, Tom Nordheim1 and Neil Murphy8, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Dorking, United Kingdom, (3)University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (5)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (6)University College London, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, London, United Kingdom, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States
04:04
Energy distribution of planetary ions He+, O+ and Na+ in Mercury's magnetosphere (672253)
Anita Linnea Elisabeth Werner1, Francois Leblanc1, Jean-Yves Chaufray2, Ronan Modolo2, Sae Aizawa3, Jim M Raines4, Willi Exner5,6 and Uwe M Motschmann7,8, (1)LATMOS/IPSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, UVSQ, Paris, France, (2)LATMOS/IPSL, UVSQ Université Paris-Saclay, Sorbonne Université, Guyancourt, France, (3)IRAP, Toulouse, France, (4)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (5)Technical University of Braunschweig, Institute for Geophysics and extraterrestrial Physics, Braunschweig, Germany, (6)TU Braunschweig, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Braunschweig, Germany, (7)Technische Universität Braunschweig, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Braunschweig, Germany, (8)DLR Institute of Planetary Research, Berlin, Germany
04:08
Local Magnetic Field Control of Energetic Electron Fluxes in the Mercury Magnetosphere (760456)
Christy Lentz1, Trevor W Leonard1,2, Dan N Baker3, Ryan M. Dewey4, Romina Nikoukar5 and David J Lawrence6,7, (1)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, LASP, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (5)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (6)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (7)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States
04:12
Space Weathering of Ice Deposits within Mercury’s Permanently Shadowed Craters (755019)
David Schriver, University of California Los Angeles, Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Pavel Travnicek, University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, Mona Delitsky, California Specialty Engineering, Pasadena, CA, United States, George C Ho, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, Nicole Echterling, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Robert L Richard, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, CA, United States
04:16
Viscosity of the Mercurian Magma Ocean: Implications for the Mineralogical Stratigraphy of Mercury’s Juvenile Mantle and Crustal Petrogenesis (754182)
Megan Mouser1, Nicholas Dygert2, Brendan A Anzures3, Nadine Lynne Grambling1, Rostislav Hrubiak4, Yoshio Kono5, Guoyin Shen4 and Stephen Wayne Parman6, (1)University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States, (2)University of Tennessee, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Knoxville, TN, United States, (3)Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, (4)HPCAT, X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States, (5)Geodynamics Research Center, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan, (6)Brown University, DEEPS - Dept of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States
04:20
Challenges on Mercury’s interior structure (672886)
Gregor Steinbrügge, Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States, Mathieu Dumberry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, Attilio Rivoldini, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium, Gerald Schubert, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Hao Cao, Harvard, Boston, MA, United States, Dustin M Schroeder, Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States and Krista Marie Soderlund, University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States
04:24
The influence of a fluid core and a solid inner core on the Cassini sate of Mercury (735194)
Mathieu Dumberry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
04:28
First Cruise Science Results (Earth and Venus) and Status of the BepiColombo Mission (735306)
Johannes Benkhoff, European Space Research and Technology Centre, Noordwijk Zh, Netherlands and Go Murakami, JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara, Japan
04:32
Discussion
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