Planetary Geosciences and the Mercury mission
Professor David Rothery is
a Senior Lecturer in the Open University Department of Earth Sciences,
and the UK Lead Scientist on MIXS (Mercury Imaging X-ray Spectrometer),
which is the only UK Principal Investigator instrument on BepiColombo,
the European Space Agency mission to Mercury to be launched in 2017.
Many questions remain for ESA’s BepiColombo to answer ten years from
now, but thanks to NASA’s MESSENGER (orbiting Mercury March 2011-March
2015) we now know far more about the closest planet to the Sun than was
possible from ground-based astronomy and the Mariner-10 flybys in the
1970s. David will be joining us to discuss new views of the Sun’s
innermost planet.
A small astronomical group based at Herstmonceux Village Hall, Hailsham Road, Herstmonceux BN27 4JX (in conjunction with STEM Sussex) to promote astronomy.
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