Kaori Hirata

    International Visiting Expert

     

    Main Research Fields

    I'm a visiting researcher at ESAC and a PhD student from the University of Tokyo (Japan), interested in the origin and nature of planetary building blocks. My research focuses on the elemental compositions on the surface of Mercury.

    • Surface elemental composition of terrestrial planets
    • Remote sensing data analysis / Methodology development

    Keywords

    • Elemental composition
    • X-ray spectroscopy
    • Gamma-ray and neutron spectroscopy
    • Mercury
    • BepiColombo
    • Martian moons/Phobos

     

    Ongoing collaborations

     

    Publications

    K. Hirata., T. Morota., S. Sugita., C. M. Ernst., & T. Usui. (2022) Magma eruption ages and fluxes in the Rembrandt and Caloris interior plains on Mercury: Implications for the north-south smooth plains asymmetry. Icarus, 382, 115034. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2022.115034.

     

    Project/mission at ESA

    BepiColombo

     

    Further information

    Personal webpage | Google Scholar | Research Gate | SPACE Research Group (ISAS/JAXA)