Planetary Space Science, School of Physical Sciences

描述：NASA的信使号轨道飞行器于2015年结束任务。为了准备欧洲的水星轨道器比普科伦坡(2018年10月发射)，比皮科伦坡的欧洲科学家(包括监管者)正在进行一项协调工作，利用可获得的最佳信使数据制作1：300万整个星球的地质图。这些将为规划和解释比普科伦坡数据提供背景信息，取代使用Mariner-10数据实现的部分1：5M比例尺地图覆盖。水星被划分为15个‘四边形’(包括每个极点一个)。当这个项目开始时，如果有一个四合院还没有绘制出来，它将被分配给学生，学生将负责在督导组的指导下绘制地质图。唯一可用的完整四边形是位于南纬66度和极点之间的南极四边形(H-15巴赫)。或者，学生可以负责H-11的地貌地层测绘，以补充INAF(罗马)的瓦伦蒂娜·加卢齐目前的构造测绘，在这种情况下，将有机会也调查选定的感兴趣区域的更大比例(1：1米)的测绘。水星的每个区域都有广泛的特征和漫长而复杂的地质历史，这使得它成为一个令人兴奋的研究世界

Description: NASA's MESSENGER orbiter ended its mission in 2015. In preparation for Europe's Mercury orbiter, BepiColombo (launched October 2018), a co-ordinated effort is being mounted by European BepiColombo scientists (including the supervisors) to produce 1:3M geological maps of the whole planet using the best MESSENGER data available. These will provide contextual information for planning and interpreting BepiColombo data, replacing partial 1:5M scale map coverage achieved using Mariner-10 data.Mercury is divided into 15 'quadrangles' (including one at each pole). If, when this project starts, there is a quadrangle yet to be mapped it will be allocated to the student, who will be responsible for creating a geological map guided by the supervision team. The only full quadrangle that may be available is the south polar quadrangle (H-15 Bach) between 66 degreesS and the pole. Alternatively the student could become responsible for the morphostratigraphic mapping of H-11 to complement current tectonic mapping by Valentina Galluzzi of INAF (Rome), in which case there will be an opportunity to also investigate the mapping of larger scale (1:1M) of a chosen area of interest. Every region of Mercury has a wide range of features and a long and complex geological history making it an exciting world to study