Diving Deep: Investigations of Planetary Interiors through Observations, Modeling, and Experiments

Session ID#: 121569

Session Description:
Synergetic measurements such as gravity, seismic and magnetic field measurements, paired with surface mineralogy, geological observations, meteorite composition, and atmospheric data provide valuable constraints for numerical models and experiments. The combination of such constraints help to improve our understanding of the physical and chemical processes that have shaped the interior of rocky bodies in the Solar System through time.Over the past decades, the increase of computational power and improvements in experimental techniques have made it possible to tackle complex scenarios relevant for the pressure and temperature conditions that govern the interior of planets and moons, in order to understand their current and past dynamics. This session invites contributions from numerical modeling and experimental work that incorporate current planetary mission data and address future measurements that are necessary to place constraints on the evolution and present day state of planetary interiors for the Moon, Mars, Mercury, Venus and beyond.
Index Terms:

0545 Modeling [COMPUTATIONAL GEOPHYSICS]
5430 Interiors [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
6299 General or miscellaneous [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
7290 Computational seismology [SEISMOLOGY]


Primary Convener:  Angela G Marusiak, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Melanie Drilleau, Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace, Toulouse Cedex 04, France, Anna Mittelholz, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland and Ana-Catalina Plesa, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Berlin, Germany
Primary Liaison:  Angela G Marusiak, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States