{"id":1165,"date":"2021-10-23T13:05:53","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T13:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/?p=1165"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:37:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:37:28","slug":"planetaryseminar-the-geochemistry-of-mercury-results-from-messenger-and-lessons-learned-for-bepicolombo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/2021\/10\/23\/planetaryseminar-the-geochemistry-of-mercury-results-from-messenger-and-lessons-learned-for-bepicolombo\/","title":{"rendered":"PlanetarySeminar: The Geochemistry of Mercury: Results from MESSENGER and Lessons Learned for BepiColombo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>At 14:00 on Wednesday Novembers 3rd, 2021, Dr Larry Nittler from the Carnegie Institution for Science will be presenting a seminar titled: &#8220;The Geochemistry of Mercury: Results from MESSENGER and Lessons Learned for BepiColombo&#8221;. The seminar will be accessible via <a href=\"https:\/\/teams.microsoft.com\/l\/meetup-join\/19%3ameeting_MmMzNzA5MDgtMjVmMS00NjZiLWFiNzctZDg4MjM4MjQ0NDJj%40thread.v2\/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22aebecd6a-31d4-4b01-95ce-8274afe853d9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22ea6eee16-dc58-4d48-b62e-85aa9c237bd9%22%7d\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/teams.microsoft.com\/l\/meetup-join\/19%3ameeting_MmMzNzA5MDgtMjVmMS00NjZiLWFiNzctZDg4MjM4MjQ0NDJj%40thread.v2\/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22aebecd6a-31d4-4b01-95ce-8274afe853d9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22ea6eee16-dc58-4d48-b62e-85aa9c237bd9%22%7d\">Teams<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><br><br>Abstract: &#8220;The MESSENGER spacecraft returned a wealth of data over its four-year orbital mission at Mercury. Remote-sensing X-ray, Gamma-ray, and neutron spectroscopy were all used to map the surface composition of key rock-forming elements across the planet&#8217;s surface. The surface was found to be volatile-rich and chemically reduced, with important implications for the still-enigmatic origin of the innermost planet. This talk will present the MESSENGER geochemical results and their implications, with a focus on the X-ray Spectrometer data, and discuss lessons learned and expectations for similar measurements to be carried out with the MIXS instrument on BepiColombo once that mission reaches Mercury in late 2025.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 14:00 on Wednesday Novembers 3rd, 2021, Dr Larry Nittler from the Carnegie Institution for Science will be presenting a seminar titled: &#8220;The Geochemistry of Mercury: Results from MESSENGER and Lessons Learned for BepiColombo&#8221;. The seminar will be accessible via Teams. Abstract: &#8220;The MESSENGER spacecraft returned a wealth of data over its four-year orbital mission [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,22,20],"tags":[46,44,45,25,36],"class_list":["post-1165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-planetary","category-seminar","category-space","tag-bepicolombo","tag-mercury","tag-messenger","tag-planetary","tag-planetaryseminar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1167,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions\/1167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}