Space and Planetary Sciences (P)
Session Sub-category Planetary Sciences(PS)
Session ID P-PS04
Title Mercury Science and Exploration
Short Title Mercury Science and Exploration
Main Convener Name Go Murakami
Affiliation Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Co-Convener 1 Name Sae Aizawa
Affiliation Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, CNRS
Co-Convener 2 Name Yuki Harada
Affiliation Kyoto University
Co-Convener 3 Name Shunichi Kamata
Affiliation Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University
Session Language 
E
Scope 
Mercury, the innermost planet in our Solar System, with its unique features, holds vital clues to understanding the evolution of terrestrial planets and the solar system. NASA's Mariner-10 and MESSENGER missions provided valuable insights but also left outstanding questions. These will soon to be addressed by the joint ESA-JAXA two spacecraft mission, BepiColombo, which is currently en route to Mercury and has already conducted several flybys. This session welcomes contributions on all aspects of Mercury's environment, including its origin, formation, geology, surface composition, interior structure, exosphere, magnetosphere, gravity, and magnetic fields, as well as their coupling using various research methods such as modeling, laboratory experiments, and observations (ground-based, remote-sensing, and in-situ). We also encourage early analyses of BepiColombo flyby data and discussions regarding future missions to Mercury.
Presentation Format Oral and Poster presentation
Invited Authors Mitsunori Ozaki (Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Institute of Science and Engineering, Kanazawa University)
Yasuhito Narita (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Technische Universitaet Braunschweig)
Chloe A Marini (University of Alabama in Huntsville)
Kaori Hirata (University of Tokyo)
Liam Morrissey (Memorial University of Newfoundland, American Museum of Natural History)
Alexis P. Rodriguez (NASA)
Time Presentation No Title Presenter
Oral Presentation May 25 AM1
9:00 - 9:15 PPS04-01 Overview and initial results of BepiColombo Mercury flybys Go Murakami
9:15 - 9:30 PPS04-02 Summary of the Mercury Flyby Observations by MPPE on BepiColombo/Mio Yoshifumi Saito
9:30 - 9:45 PPS04-03 MIA Observations of Low-energy Ions During Mio's 4th and 6th Mercury Flybys: Preliminary Results Yuki Harada
9:45 - 10:00 PPS04-04 Spatial distribution of whistler-mode waves in Mercury's magnetosphere during BepiColombo flybys Mitsunori Ozaki
10:00 - 10:15 PPS04-05 Magnetic field measurement by BepiColombo MIO MGF during cruising and prospects for the observations at Mercury Ayako Matsuoka
10:15 - 10:30 PPS04-06 A Statistical Study on Current Structure of Magnetic Field Depressions in Mercury's Magnetosphere Takuro OGAWA
Oral Presentation May 25 AM2
10:45 - 11:00 PPS04-07 Beam instability as a plasma diagnostic tool for the Mercury upstream region Yasuhito Narita
11:00 - 11:15 PPS04-08 Effusive Volcanism and Volatile-Rich Layer Interactions on Mercury: Implications for Chaotic Terrain Formation Chloe A Marini
11:15 - 11:30 PPS04-09 Analysis of the spatial distribution of surface K abundances on Mercury to test thermal redistribution driven by surface-exosphere interaction Kaori Hirata
11:30 - 11:45 PPS04-10 Using Atomic Modelling to Better Explain the Surface-Exosphere Connection on Airless Bodies Liam Morrissey
11:45 - 12:00 PPS04-11 The link between exosphere and surface of Mercury's Mg revealed by the BepiColombo and MESSENGER spacecraft Yudai Suzuki
Presentation No Title Presenter
Poster Presentation May 25 PM3
PPS04-P01 Could Solar Wind Have Decreased Permeability on Mercury and Other Airless Worlds? Alexis P. Rodriguez
PPS04-P02 The dependence of Mercury’s magnetotail protons on IMF directions: MESSENGER observations Tomoki Mori
PPS04-P03 Daytime observation of Mercury with a visible adaptive otpics installed on Tohoku 60-cm telescope at Haleakala observatory Masato Kagitani
PPS04-P04 Mercurian magma ocean crystallization as a function of oxygen fugacity and sulfur content Jiejun Jing