MESSENGER – BEPICOLOMBO JOINT SCIENCE MEETING

Location: Meetings will take place at DLR.

Food and drinks: Tea and coffee will be provided in the breaks. Lunch will also be provided.

Posters

 

Tuesday 16th June
Block 1 Magnetosphere
Mercury's disappearing dayside magnetosphere events (MESSENGER): Evidence for severe dayside erosion and/or compression? Middleton et al.
Magnetospheric flux transport at Mercury Imber et al.
Block 2 Surface
Characterizing explosive volcanism on Mercury (withdrawn) Besse et al.
Mantle sources and melting conditions for basalts on Mercury Charlier & Namur
MERTIS calibration campaign for performance characterization. D'Amore et al.
Geologically supervised classification of Rembrandt basin and Caloris basin on Mercury: from MESSENGER to BepiColombo. D'Incecco et al.
A Study of Thermal Expansion on the Predicted Mercury Surface Minerals: Preparing for MERTIS on BepiColombo Ferrari et al.
Polar volatiles on Moon and Mercury: similarity and difference.(withdrawn)

Mitrofanov

Mercury Surface in the Planetary Emissivity Laboratory (PEL): Preparing for MERTIS on BepiColombo Maturilli et al.
Gamma-ray spectroscopy of Mercury surface by the Mercury Gamma-ray and Neutron Spectrometer (MGNS): from MESSENGER to BepiColombo. (withdrawn) Kozyrev et al.
MESSENGER-based targets for high-resolution compositional analysis by BepiColombo Thomas et al.
Simulation of the performance of the BepiColombo Laser Altimeter instrument based on MESSENGER data Gouman et al.
 
Wednesday 17th June
Block 3 Exosphere
A long-term all-sky imager observation of lunar sodium tail. Nishino et al.
Block 4 Interior
Orbit simulations for BepiColombo using MESSENGER- based high-order Mercury gravity field data Lüdicke et al.
Constraining Mercury's interior structure with geodesy data and its present thermal state (Rivoldini et al) (Abstract number 43) Rivoldini et al.
First MESSENGER ORBITAL Observations of Mercury's Librations Stark et al.
MEASURING MERCURY'S TIDAL DEFORMATION BY LASER ALTIMETRY PERSPECTIVES FOR BELA ONBOARD THE BEPICOLOMBO SPACECRAFT Steinbrügge et al.
Mercury's low-degree geoid and topography from insolation-driven elastic deformation Tosi et al.
Thickness of the crust of Mercury Padovan et al.
Mercury Gravity Field and Rotational State from the BepiColombo Radio Science Experiment Mariani et al.

Agenda

Mini Agenda

Tuesday 16th June
09:15 - Introduction
09:30 - 13:00 - Magnetosphere
13:00 - Lunch
14:00 - 18:00 - Surface

Wednesday 17th June
09:30 - 13:00 - Exosphere
13:00 - Lunch
14:00 - 17:30 - Interior
19:30 - Dinner/Social event

Thursday 18th June
09:30 - 13:00 - The big picture
13:30 - End of meeting