The 181th Symposium on Sustainable Humanosphere

MESSENGER-BepiColombo
Joint Workshop
Sept. 5th - 6th, 2011

Workshop for the Mercury exploration
Inamori Hall, Shirankaikan, Kyoto Univ., Kyoto , Japan

Organizing Commitee
M. Fujimoto (JAXA)
S. Solomon (Carnegie Inst. of Washington)
J. Benkhoff (ESA)
H. Kojima (Kyoto Univ.)

Sponsorship
JAXA
NASA
ESA
RISH, Kyoto Univ.

Workshop Program is now open.

Objectives
The planet Mercury has been left unexplored for 35 years after the flyby observations by Mariner-10. On March 18, 2011, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft made a successful entry into an orbit around the planet. The first orbiter around the elusive planet started to provide with us the first close-up and continuous look at Mercury. In September, half a year after the exciting event of Mercury Orbit Insertion, we will get together in Kyoto and learn the very initial results from MESSENGER. This meeting will be the first public opportunity where the super-fresh MESSENGER results are presented by the team members. The team of BepiColombo, which is an ESA/JAXA project to Mercury, hosts the meeting together with the MESSENGER team. This meeting should serve as a good opportuinity for planetary scientists to trigger their interest in Mercury, boost their science activity in Mercury, and to get exposed to the excitement of a new planetary mission.

Shirankaikan, Kyoto Univ.

Cosponsorship
Solar Terrestrial Environment Lab., Nagoya Univ.
Society of Geomagnetism and Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences (SGEPSS)
The Japanese Society for Planetary Sciences (JSPS)