Jack Wright

    Research Fellow

     

    Main Research Fields

    • Volcanic history of Mercury
    • Volatile-driven processes on Mercury
    • Making novel planetary maps
    • AI-generated terrain classifications of Mars

    Keywords

    • Mercury, Mars, the Moon
    • Volcanism
    • Geology
    • Volatiles
    • Planetary cartography

    Ongoing collaborations

    • David Rothery, Benjamin Man, Annie Lennox, Alistair Blance (The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK)
      • Geology of Mercury
    • Alexander Barrett, Elena Favaro, Peter Fawdon, Matthew Balme (The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK)
      • Deep learning terrain classifications of Mars rover landing sites
    • Valentina Galluzzi, Francesca Zambon (IAPS-INAF, Rome, Italy)
      • Geological mapping of Mercury
      • Integrating geomorphic and spectral data on Mercury
      • BepiColombo Monitoring Camera
    • Sebastien Besse (ESA/ESAC, Madrid, Spain)
      • Geology of Mercury
      • Spectroscopy of Mercury
      • BepiColombo
    • Joe Zender (ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands)
      • BepiColombo Monitoring Camera
    • Claudia Pöhler, Carolyn van der Bogert, Harald Hiesinger (WWU Münster, Institut für Planetologie, Münster, Germany)
      • Geological mapping of the South Pole-Aitken Basin, the Moon
    • Lon Hood (Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA)
      • Relationship between crustal magnetic anomalies and geology on Mercury

    Publications

    Peer-reviewed journal articles

    Canale, M., Wright, J., & Rothery, D. A. (2024). A hybrid geological map of Sibelius crater on Mercury, and its associated ejecta and impact melt deposits. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 541(1), SP541-2022. https://doi.org/10.1144/SP541-2022-296

    Man, B., Rothery, D. A., Balme, M. R., Conway, S. J., & Wright, J. (2023) Widespread small grabens consistent with recent tectonism on Mercury. Nature Geoscience. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01281-5

    Caminiti, E., Doressoundiram, A., Besse, S., & Wright, J. (2023). A spectral study of the Caloris basin on Mercury and the origin of associated volcanic smooth plains. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, e2022JE007685. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JE007685

    Malliband, C. C., Rothery, D. A., Balme, M. R., Conway, S. J., Pegg, D. L., & Wright, J. (2022). Geology of the Derain quadrangle (H10), Mercury. Journal of Maps. https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2022.2112774

    Barrett, A. M., Wright, J., Favaro, E. A., Fawdon, P., Balme, M. R., Woods, M. J., Karachalios, S., Bohacek, E., Sefton-Nash, E., & Joudrier, L. (2022). Oxia Planum, Mars, classified using the NOAH-H deep-learning terrain classification system. Journal of Maps. https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2022.2112777

    Wright, J., Barrett, A. M., Fawdon, P., Favaro, E. A., Balme, M. R., Wood, M. J., & Karachalios, S. (2022). Jezero crater, Mars: application of the deep learning NOAH-H terrain classification system. Journal of Maps. https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2022.2095935

    Zambon, F., Carli, C., Wright, J., Rothery, D. A., Altieri, F., Massironi, M., Capaccioni, F., & Cremonese, G. (2022). Spectral units analysis of quadrangle H05-Hokusai on Mercury. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 127, e2021JE006918. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JE006918

    Wright, J., Byrne, P. K., & Rothery, D. A. (2021). Planet Mercury: Volcanism in a theatre of global contraction, with examples from the Hokusai quadrangle. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 107300. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2021.107300

    Galluzzi, V., Oliveira, J. S., Wright, J., Rothery, D. A., & Hood, L. L. (2021). Asymmetric magnetic anomalies over young impact craters on Mercury. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2020GL091767. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL091767

    Rothery, D. A., Barraud, O., Besse, S., Carli, C., Pegg, D. L., Wright, J., & Zambon, F. (2021). On the asymmetry of Nathair Facula, Mercury. Icarus, 355, 114180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2020.114180

    Wright, J., Conway, S. J., Morino, C., Rothery, D. A., Balme, M. R., & Fassett, C. I. (2020). Modification of Caloris ejecta blocks by long-lived mass-wasting: A volatile-driven process?. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 549, 116519. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116519

    Rothery, D. A., Massironi, M., Alemanno, G., Barraud, O., Besse, S., Bott, N., ... Wright, J., Wurz, P., & Zambon, F. (2020). Rationale for BepiColombo studies of Mercury’s surface and composition. Space science reviews, 216, 1-46. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-020-00694-7

    Balme, M. R., Curtis-Rouse, M. C., Banham, S., Barnes, D., Barnes, R., Bauer, A., ... Wright, J., & Yeomans, B. (2019). The 2016 UK Space Agency Mars Utah Rover Field Investigation (MURFI). Planetary and Space Science, 165, 31-56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2018.12.003

    Wright, J., Rothery, D. A., Balme, M. R., & Conway, S. J. (2019). Geology of the Hokusai quadrangle (H05), Mercury. Journal of Maps, 15(2), 509-520. https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2019.1625821

    Brož, P., Čadek, O., Wright, J., & Rothery, D. A. (2018). The apparent absence of kilometer‐sized pyroclastic volcanoes on Mercury: Are we looking right?. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(22), 12-171. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL079902

    Wright, J., Rothery, D. A., Balme, M. R., & Conway, S. J. (2018). Constructional volcanic edifices on Mercury: Candidates and hypotheses of formation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 123(4), 952-971. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JE005450

    Rothery, D. A., Mancinelli, P., Guzzetta, L., & Wright, J. (2017). Mercury's Caloris basin: Continuity between the interior and exterior plains. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 122(3), 560-576. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JE005282

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