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EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2011
La Cité Internationale des Congrès Nantes Métropole
02 – 07 October 2011, Nantes, France |
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Oral Program TP2
Mercury after Six Months of MESSENGER Orbital ObservationsConvener: S. C. Solomon
Co-Conveners: J. Benkhoff
| Session Details | Poster Program |
Wednesday, 05 Oct 2011 Room: Jupiter Auditorium Chairperson: R. L. McNutt, Jr | |
| MESSENGER | |
| 08:30–08:50 |
EPSC-DPS2011-430 Mercury after Six Months of MESSENGER Orbital Observations (invited) S.C. Solomon, R.L. McNutt,Jr., B.J. Anderson, D.T. Blewett, L.G. Evans, R.E. Gold, S.M. Krimigis, S.L. Murchie, L.R. Nittler, R.J. Phillips, L.M. Prockter, J.A. Slavin, and M.T. Zuber |
| Figure and Gravity Field | |
| 08:50–09:00 |
EPSC-DPS2011-278 Orbital Observations of Mercury with the Mercury Laser Altimeter M.T. Zuber, D.E. Smith, R.J. Phillips, S.C. Solomon, G.A. Neumann, J.W. Head, M.H. Torrence, F.G. Lemoine, E. Mazarico, S.A. Hauck, O.S. Barnouin, M.E. Perry, J. Oberst, D. Yang, and C.M. Ernst |
| 09:00–09:10 |
EPSC-DPS2011-139 Mercury's Gravity Field from MESSENGER after Six Months in Orbit F.G. Lemoine, D.E. Smith, S.J. Peale, R.J. Phillips, S.C. Solomon, M.T. Zuber, J-L. Margot, G.A. Neumann, M.H. Torrence, and M.E. Perry |
| Exosphere | |
| 09:10–09:20 |
EPSC-DPS2011-266 Insights into the Nature of Mercury's Exosphere: Early Results from the MESSENGER Orbital Mission Phase W.E. McClintock, M.H. Burger, R.M. Killen, A.W. Merkel, M. Sarantos, A.L. Sprague, S.C. Solomon, and R.J. Vervack,Jr. |
| 09:20–09:30 |
EPSC-DPS2011-710 Resonance lines radiative transfer for non-maxwellian velocity distribution functions J.-Y. Chaufray and F. Leblanc |
| 09:30–09:40 |
EPSC-DPS2011-1107 Insights into physical processes promoting atomic species into Mercury's exosphere R.M. Killen and M.H. Burger |
| 09:40–09:50 |
EPSC-DPS2011-1131 Early MESSENGER Results for Less Abundant or Weakly Emitting Species in Mercury's Exosphere R.J. Vervack,Jr., R.M. Killen, A.L. Sprague, M.H. Burger, A.W. Merkel, and M. Sarantos |
| 09:50–10:00 |
EPSC-DPS2011-100 Escape rates and variability constraints for high energy sodium sources at Mercury C. Schmidt, J. Baumgardner, M. Mendillo, and J. Wilson |
Coffee Break | |
| Chairperson: S. C. Solomon | |
| Magnetosphere | |
| 13:30–13:40 |
EPSC-DPS2011-515 MESSENGER Observations of Showers of Flux Transfer Events at Mercury J.A. Slavin, S.M. Imber, S.A, Boardsen, B.J. Anderson, H. Korth, T.H. Zurbuchen, J.M. Raines, and S.C. Solomon |
| 13:40–13:50 |
EPSC-DPS2011-321 Formation and Transport of Flux Transfer Events at Mercury S.M. Imber, S.A. Boardsen, H. Korth, and S.C. Solomon |
| 13:50–14:00 |
EPSC-DPS2011-272 Explosive Energetic Electron Events at Mercury G.C. Ho, S.M. Krimigis, R.L. McNutt,Jr., J.A. Slavin, D.N. Baker, B.J. Anderson, H. Korth, R.D. Starr, and S.C. Solomon |
| 14:00–14:10 |
EPSC-DPS2011-1157 Energetic electron detection in Mercury's magnetosphere with the MESSENGER Gamma-Ray Spectrometer R.L. McNutt,Jr., D.J. Lawrence, R.D. Starr, G.C. Ho, P.N. Peplowski, B.J. Anderson, H. Korth, E.A. Rhodes, S.M. Krimigis, R.E. Gold, and S.C. Solomon |
| 14:10–14:20 |
EPSC-DPS2011-239 MESSENGER observations of ULF waves in Mercury's inner magnetosphere S.A. Boardsen, B.J. Anderson, J.A. Slavin, H. Korth, D. Schriver, and S.C. Solomon |
| 14:20–14:30 |
EPSC-DPS2011-1162 The Feedback Dynamo of Mercury D. Heyner, J. Wicht, N. Gomez-Perez, D. Schmitt, H.-U. Auster, and K.-H. Glassmeier |
| 14:30–14:40 |
EPSC-DPS2011-844 MESSENGER observations of large-amplitude Kelvin-Helmholtz waves at Mercury's magnetopause T. Sundberg, S.A. Boardsen, J.A. Slavin, B.J. Anderson, H. Korth, T.H. Zurbuchen, J.M. Raines, and S.C. Solomon |
| 14:40–14:50 |
EPSC-DPS2011-9 On the Effect of IMF Turning on Ion Dynamics D.C. Delcourt, T.E. Moore, and M.-C. Fok |
| Polar Deposits | |
| 14:50–15:00 |
EPSC-DPS2011-273 Illumination conditions near Mercury's south pole N.L. Chabot, D.T. Blewett, B.W. Denevi, C.M. Ernst, and S.L. Murchie |
Coffee Break | |
| Chairperson: J. Benkhoff | |
| Geology and Surface Composition | |
| 15:30–15:40 |
EPSC-DPS2011-948 Origin and Significance of Plains on Mercury B.W. Denevi, M.S. Robinson, S.L. Murchie, D.T. Blewett, N.L. Chabot, C.M. Ernst, S.C. Solomon, and J.W. Head |
| 15:40–15:50 |
EPSC-DPS2011-1497 Small Craters (Secondaries) on Mercury's Northern Plains C.R. Chapman, W.J. Merline, L.R. Ostrach, Z. Xiao, S.C. Solomon, and J.W. Head |
| 15:50–16:00 |
EPSC-DPS2011-863 Mercury's Surface Composition: Early Results from the MESSENGER X-Ray Spectrometer R.D. Starr, S.Z. Weider, L.R. Nittler, W.V. Boynton, L.G. Evans, J.O. Goldsten, T.J. McCoy, R.L. McNutt,Jr., S.C. Solomon, and A.L. Sprague |
| 16:00–16:10 |
EPSC-DPS2011-1170 Potassium and thorium on the surface of Mercury: Early results from the MESSENGER Gamma-Ray Spectrometer P.N. Peplowski, D.K. Hamara, L.G. Evans, T.J. McCoy, W.V. Boynton, D.J. Lawrence, L.R. Nittler, E.A. Rhodes, S.C. Solomon, and A.L. Sprague |
| 16:10–16:20 |
EPSC-DPS2011-860 Surface Reflectance of Mercury from MESSENGER Orbital Observations N.R. Izenberg, G.M. Holsclaw, D.L. Domingue, W.E. McClintock, D.T. Blewett, M.C. Kochte, J. Helbert, A.L. Sprague, F. Vilas, and S.C. Solomon |
| 16:20–16:30 |
EPSC-DPS2011-1737 Reflectance of Mercury and the Moon S.E. Braden, M.S. Robinson, B.W. Denevi, and S.C. Solomon |
| 16:30–16:40 |
EPSC-DPS2011-764 Bridging from MESSENGER to BepiColombo - surface composition from visual and near-infrared observations and simulation of thermal infrared data J. Helbert, M. D'Amore, A. Maturilli, A.L. Sprague, N.R. Izenberg, G.M. Holsclaw, D.L. Domingue, W.E. McClintock, H. Hiesinger, and S.C. Solomon |
| 16:40–16:50 |
EPSC-DPS2011-1444 Resolved ultraviolet surface reflectance spectroscopy of Mercury from MESSENGER G.M. Holsclaw, W.E. McClintock, N.R. Izenberg, and F. Vilas |
| 16:50–17:00 |
EPSC-DPS2011-989 Search for Absorption Features in Mercury's Ultraviolet and Visible Reflectance Properties F. Vilas, D.L. Domingue, E.A. Jensen, A.L. Sprague, N.R. Izenberg, J. Helbert, M. D'Amore, and S.C. Solomon |