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Understanding the formation, evolution, composition, the interior structure and the environment of Mercury is a primary goal of the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission and of many theoretical, observational, and experimental studies. NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft provided many new insights and surprising results regarding these goals. However, the mission also raised many new questions that will be addressed by ESA/JAXA BepiColombo that has been successfully launched last October. This session welcomes contributions addressing the planet’s geology, surface composition, geodesy, interior structure, laboratory measurements, ground-based observations, exosphere, magnetosphere, gravity and magnetic fields and all those work related to the investigation of this terrestrial planet.
A second focus of the session is on the BepiColombo spacecraft and payload cruise activities, in addition to related public outreach activities.

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Convener: Johannes Benkhoff | Co-conveners: Paul Byrne, Nancy Chabot, Hauke Hussmann, Alice Lucchetti, Go Murakami, Joana S. Oliveira, Joe Zender

Orals

| Mon, 16 Sep, 08:30–10:00, 13:30–17:00

Earth (Room 5)

Posters

| Attendance Tue, 17 Sep, 17:15–18:45 | Display Mon, 16 Sep, 08:30–Wed, 18 Sep, 11:00|Basement

Monday, 16 September 2019 | Earth (Room 5)

Chairperson: Alice Lucchetti

08:30–08:45 |

EPSC-DPS2019-1618

Exploring Mercury’s space environment and inner heliosphere by BepiColombo/Mio

Go Murakami, Hajime Hayakawa, and Masaki Fujimoto

Laboratory studies & Modelling

08:45–09:00 |

EPSC-DPS2019-1542

Examining the effects of both heating and irradiation on minerals analogs of Mercury

Nicolas Bott, Rosario Brunetto, Alain Doressoundiram, Cristian Carli, Fabrizio Capaccioni, Yves Langevin, Davide Perna, François Poulet, Giovanna Serventi, Maria Sgavetti, Francesco Vetere, Diego Perugini, Cristina Pauselli, Giovanni Strazzulla, Ferenc Borondics, and Christophe Sandt

09:00–09:15 |

EPSC-DPS2019-521

A shock recovery experiment: Tracing Spectral Fingerprints of Impact Melt, npFe and Element Migration in Shocked Porous Materials.

Aleksandra N. Stojic, Andreas Morlok, Martin Sohn, Harald Hiesinger, Tomas Kohout, Hagen Aurich, Iris Weber, and Joern Helbert

09:15–09:30 |

EPSC-DPS2019-517

Infrared Spectroscopy of Synthetic Planetary Analogs for Mercury for the BepiColombo Mission

Andreas Morlok, Bernard Charlier, Christian Renggli, Stephan Klemme, Oliver Namur, Cristian Carli, Martin Sohn, Iris Weber, Aleksandra Stojic, Maximilian Reitze, Harry Hiesinger, and Joern Helbert

09:30–09:45 |

EPSC-DPS2019-503

Sputtering investigations of Mercury analogue materials using solar wind ions

Herbert Biber, Paul Stefan Szabo, David Weichselbaum, Matthias Brenner, Reinhard Stadlmayr, Daniel Mayer, Andreas Mutzke, Andreas Nenning, Markus Sauer, Noah Jäggi, André Galli, Jürgen Fleig, Annette Foelske-Schmitz, Helmut Lammer, Klaus Mezger, Peter Wurz, and Friedrich Aumayr

09:45–10:00 |

EPSC-DPS2019-890

Impact Gardening Ice on Mercury and the Moon

Emily Costello, Rebecca Ghent, and Paul Lucey

Coffee break

Chairperson: Joe Zender

Surface & Interior

13:30–13:45 |

EPSC-DPS2019-216

BepiColombo - The next step of Mercury Exploration with two orbiting spacecraft

Joe Zender, Johannes Benkhoff, and Go Murakami

13:45–14:00 |