COSMOS Programme - BepiColombo Mercury Lab Workshop

	Day 1
09:00-9:10	Welcome to the Mercury Lab Workshop
09:10-9:20
09:20-9:30
	I. Probing Mercury's materials (Chairs: Jörn Helbert & Océane Barraud)
9:30-10:00	Camille Cartier	Petrology experiments to produce the best Mercury analogues


10:00-10:10	Tiff Barry	Synthetic crystalline samples of MESSENGER compositions as Mercury analogues
10:10-10:20	Llado Laurie	Production of Mercury's surface analogues by experimental petrology: an overview of the evacuated silica tube technique
10:20-10:30	Q&A
10:30-11-00	Coffee break


11:00-11:10	Julia Ann Cartwright	Exploring Mercury’s Diverse Surface Compositions Using the Ground Reference Facility (GREF)
11:10-11:20	Jessy Flahaut	The hyperspectral remote sensing laboratory at CRPG Nancy, France
11:20-11:30	Melanie Sieber	High-PT experimental facilities for planetary materials
11:30-11:40	Q&A
11:40-12:00	Discussion


	Lunch break




13:00-13:10	Aurélie Van den Neucker	The Spectral Characterization of the Ribbeck Aubrite as Mercury Analog : The Effect of Heating in Preparation for MERTIS Flyby 5.
13:10-13:20	Emelia Branagan-Harris	Phobos’ Origin: A Ground-Truthing Investigation through Laboratory Analysis of Analogues and Meteorites.
13:20-13:30	Q&A
13:30-13:40	Anna Irene Landi	Spectroscopic and minero-petrological investigation of boninites from Cyprus as potential analogues of Mercury lavas
13:40-13:50	Kovalskii Georgii	Basaltic glasses in the lower mantle: trace elements as markers of local structure changes
13:50-14:00	Q&A
14:00-14:30	Discussion


	Poster session
14:30-16:00	Poster session (poster list) + DLR Labs Tour








	II. Mercury's volatiles (Iris Weber & Adrian Martindale)
16:00-16:30	Christian J. Renggli	High-temperature Mercury experiments at MPS


16:30-16:40	Brendan A. Anzures	Investigating Mercury from Core to Crust Through Multidisciplinary Approaches
16:40-16:50	Emily Fischer	Insights into Mercury’s melt structure from a multidimensional analytical approach
16:50-17:00	Q&A
17:00-17:30	Discussion


	End of day 1

	Day 2
09:00-9:10	Welcome + Organisation (Océane)
	III. Challenges of observing Mercury (Solmaz Adeli & Bernard Charlier)
09:10-9:40	Kerri Donaldson Hanna	Spectral Characterization of Solar System Airless Bodies Analogues


09:40-9:50	Adam Fox	Laboratory studies to validate an indirect method of sensing carbon enrichments in the LRM with MIXS
9:50-10:00	Q&A
10:00-10:10	Andreas Morlok	Mid-Infrared Studies of Hermean Analogues at IRIS Labs, Universität Münster
10:10-10:20	Alessandro Maturilli	A database of emissivity spectra for Mercury analog materials measured in the TIR spectral range under Mercury conditions
10:20-10:30	Q&A
10:30-11:00	Coffee break


11:00-11:10	Maximilian Reitze	The effect of bulk sample porosity on MIR spectra
11:10-11:20	Graeme Hall	DigiGREF: A Digital Analogue of the Mercury Imaging X-ray Spectrometer Ground-Reference Facility
11:20-11:30	Q&A
11:30-12:00	Discussion



	Lunch break



	IV. Mercury's iron paradox (Giulia Alemanno & Nicola Tosi)
13:00-13:30	Olivier Namur	Iron distribution on Mercury: unknowns and paradox


13:30-13:40	Martin Hilchenbach	Measurements of X-ray fluorescence of iron minerals
13:40-13:50	Q&A
13:50-14:00	Cristian Carli	How poor of transitional elements are Mercury surface rocks?
14:00-14:10	Amber den Hartog	High-pressure melting experiments of Fe-Si metal alloys, as proxy for Mercury’s core
14:10-14:20	Clarisse Peignaux	Spectral properties of synthetic plagioclases as planetary analog materials
14:20-14:30	Q&A
14:30-15:00	Discussion


15:00-15:30	Coffee break


	V. Surface-environment interactions (Cateline Lantz & Cristian Carli)
15:30-16:00	Noah Jäggi	X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy: a Critical Tool for Understanding the Compositional and Chemical Effects of Space Weathering


16:00-16:10	Haruhisa Tabata	Oxygen ion irradiation experiments on planetary analogue materials: A Mercury perspective
16:10-16:20	De Angelis E, Richards G.	Laboratory simulation of ion impact and back-scattering signal investigation on Mercury surface
16:20-16:30	Q&A
16:30-16:40	Riccardo Giovanni Urso	The effects of ion bombardment on the surface of Mercury
16:40-16:50	Simon Lindsay	The Electron Impact Facility at the University of Leicester: Opportunities for Mercury Science
16:50-17:00	Q&A
17:00-17:30	Discussion


	End of day 2

	Day 3
09:00-9:10	Welcome
09:10-9:20	Note-takers I	Summary of session I
09:20-9:30	Note-takers II	Summary of session II
09:30-9:40	Note-takers III	Summary of session III
09:40-9:50	Note-takers IV	Summary of session IV
9:50-10:00	Note-takers V	Summary of session V
10:00-10:10	Discussion: Lab plan + Paper(s)
10:10-10:20
10:20-10:30
10:30-11:00	Coffee break


11:00-11:10	Discussion: Lab plan + Paper(s)
11:10-11:20
11:20-11:30
11:30-11:40
11:40-11:50
11:50-12:00	Closing remarks - End of the workshop

Posters
Lauren Jennings	Synthesis of natural basaltic glass discs to be used as terrestrial planet analogues.
Rody Erftemeijer	Experimental investigation of silicate sulfidation kinetics
Matthias Nieuwenhuis	Experimental REE-partitioning between (Ca,Mg)S and silicates
Jean Barron	Radiative transfer and travel time to characterize the surface
Azar Arghavanian	Hermean surface analysis using MLA and spectral characteristics focusing on mineral mapping