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Intro 1 ISBN 978-5-00015-029-0 © Федеральное Государственное intro 1 TABLE OF CONTENT INTRODUCTION PROGRAM COMMITTEE PROGRAM overview PROGRAM scientific PROGRAM ABSTRACTS INFORMATION ADDRESS METRO MAP REGISTRATION AND INFORMATION DESK SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS POSTER SESSIONS SOCIAL PROGRAM INTERNET ACCESS AND WiFi LUNCH POINTS NOTEBOOK intro 2 THE EIGHTH MOSCOW SOLAR SYSTEM SYMPOSIUM 8M-S3 SPACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE MOSCOW, RUSSIA october 9-13, 2017 Starting from 2010, the Space Research Institute holds annual international symposia on Solar system exploration. Main topics of these symposia include wide range of problems related to formation and evolution of Solar system, planetary systems of other stars; exploration of Solar system planets, their moons, small bodies; interplanetary environment, astrobiology problems. Experimental planetary studies, science instruments and preparation for space missions are also considered at these symposia. The Eight Moscow international Solar System Symposium (8M- S3) will be held from October 9 till 13, 2017. This year is marked by the 60th anniversary of the First satellite launch and the starting of Space era. Subject matter of this symposium will cover many problems of the Solar system science with the central topic “Moon, Mars and Venus research”. This topic relates to scientific problems of several missions: “Mars Express”, “Venus Express”, the missions under development in Russia: “Luna-Glob”, “Luna-Resource”, “ExoMars 2016”( Roscosmos-ESA), which was launched on March 14, 2016, and “ExoMars 2020”( Roscosmos-ESA). THE FOLLOWING SESSIONS WILL BE HELD DURING THE SYMPOSIUM: • session: PLANETARY ATMOSPHERES The session dedicated to the memory of Tobias Owen • session: LUNAR AND PLANETARY GEOLOGY • session: GIANT PLANETS • session: ASTROBIOLOGY, METHODS AND INSTRUMENTS FOR SEARCH OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE • session: EXOPLANETS • session: DUST AND DUSTY PLASMA IN SPACE • session: SMALL BODIES • session: SOLAR WIND INTERACTIONS WITH PLANETS AND SMALL BODIES • session: INSTRUMENTS, MISSIONS, EXPLORATION Space Research Institute holds this symposium with participation of the following organizations: • RUSSIAN FOUNDATION FOR BASIC RESEARCH • VERNADSKY INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY, RUSSIA • BROWN UNIVERSITY, USA • EARTH PHYSICS INSTITUTE, RUSSIA • KELDYSH INSTITUTE OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS, RUSSIA • RADIO ELECTRONICS INSTITUTE, RUSSIA • STERNBERG ASTRONOMICAL INSTITUTE, MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY, RUSSIA symposium website: http://ms2017.cosmos.ru contact email address: [email protected] Мероприятие проводится при финансовой поддержке Российской академии наук и Российского фонда фундаментальных исследований, Проект № 17-02-20551 intro 3 PROGRAM COMMITTEE chair: acad. ZELENYI L.M. IKI RAS members: BAZILEVSKIY A.T. GEOHI RAS BIBRING J.-P. IAS,CNRS, France BOLTON S.J. Southwest Research Institute, USA BOROVIN G.K. Keldysh AMI RAS CHICARRO A. ESTEC, ESA DUXBURY T. George Mason University, USA HEAD III J. Brown University, USA KORABLEV O.I. IKI RAS KOSTITSYN Y.A. GEOHI RAS MAROV M.Ya. GEOHI RAS MITROFANOV I.G. IKI RAS RODIN A.V. IKI RAS SHEVCHENKO V.V. GAISH MSU SMIRNOV V.M. IRE RAS SVEDHEM H. ESTEC, ESA VAISBERG O.L. IKI RAS VOROBYOVA E.A. MSU WITASSE O. ESTEC, ESA WU Ji National Space Science Center, China ZHARKOV V.N. IFZ RAS ZAKHAROV A.V. IKI RAS ZASOVA L.V. IKI RAS secretary: ROSTE O. IKI RAS, [email protected] intro 4 overview 8M-S3 program THE EIGHTH MOSCOW SOLAR SYSTEM SYMPOSIUM (8M-S3) IKI RAS, 9-13 OCTOBER 2017 9 october 10 october 11 october 12 october 13 october 10.00 10.20 opening 10.40 11.00 11.20 session 6. coffee coffee coffee coffee 11.40 coffee DUST AND DUSTY PLASMA DUSTY AND DUST session 3. 12.00 GIANT PLANETS GIANT 12.20 12.40 13.00 lunch lunch lunch lunch lunch 14.00 14.20 session 7. SMALL BODIES SMALL 14.40 15.00 15.20 GEOLOGY PLANETARY AND LUNAR INSTRUMENTS, MISSIONS, EXPLORATION MISSIONS, INSTRUMENTS, 15.40 ATMOSPHERES PLANETARY session 4. 16.00 coffee Session 2. coffee coffee coffee coffee ASTROBIOLOGY session 9. 16.20 Session 1. 16.40 17.00 17.20 session 8. session 5. EXOPLANETS EXOPLANETS 17.40 SOLAR WIND INTERACTIONS WIND SOLAR 18.00 POSTER 18.20 CONCERT SESSION 18.40 POSTER SOCIAL SOCIAL 19.00 SESSION EVENTS EVENTS WELCOME 19.20 IN MOSCOW SOCIAL IN MOSCOW PARTY EVENTS RECEPTION 19.40 IN MOSCOW 20.00 progr-1 8M-S3 SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM monday, 9 october 2017 Lev ZELENYI opening remarks 10.00-10.40 session 1. PLANETARY ATMOSPHERES. 10.40-18.00 THE SESSION DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF TOBIAS OWEN conveners: Ludmila ZASOVA, Scott BOLTON, Oleg KORABLEV 8MS3-PA-01 Mikhail MAROV Heterogeneous accretion: 10.40-11.00 and some results of the Sergei IPATOV computer modeling 8MS3-PA-02 Jonathan LUNINE The origin of Titan’s 11.00-11.20 and atmosphere revealed Scott BOLTON in isotopic and molecular composition: from Toby Owen’s pioneering work to the end of Cassini 8MS3-PA-03 Jack WAITE CASSINI In Situ 11.20-11.40 et al Observations of Saturn’s Equatorial Atmosphere and Ionosphere coffee-break 11.40-12.00 8MS3-PA-04 Helmut LAMMER Element fractionation 12.00-12.20 et al by hydrodynamic escape at early Venus: constraining the planet’s evolution 8MS3-PA-05 Mikhail On the Origin 12.20-12.40 GERASIMOV of Atmospheres of Terrestrial Planets 8MS3-PA-06 Yeon Joo LEE Venus’ glory observed 12.40-13.00 et al by the UV Imager on board Akatsuki lunch 13.00-14.00 8MS3-PA-07 Vladimir Disulfur dioxide and its 14.00-14.20 KRASNOPOLSKY NUV absorption in the photochemical model of Venus atmosphere 8MS3-PA-08 Vladimir Search for HBr and bromine 14.20-14.40 KRASNOPOLSKY photochemistry on Venus and Denis BELYAEV 8MS3-PA-09 Mikhail LUGININ Study of scale heights 14.40-15.00 et al and detached haze layers at high latitudes in the upper haze of Venus from SPICAV IR data 8MS3-PA-10 Jose Luis Optimal Cloud Computing 15.00-15.20 VAZQUEZ Infrastructure for Planetary POLETTI Image Processing: A Tale et al of Two Planets (Mars and Venus) 8MS3-PA-11 Anatoliy PAVLOV Evolution of Martian 15.20-15.40 et al atmosphere in modern era, its isotopic imprints and connection with Martian subsurface environments 8MS3-PA-12 Ashley PALUMBO Late Noachian icy highlands 15.40-16.00 et al climate model: Exploring the possibility of transient melting and fluvial/ lacustrine activity through peak annual/seasonal temperatures coffee-break 16.00-16.20 progr-2 8MS3-PA-13 Anna FEDOROVA Long-term observations 16.20-16.40 et al of water vapor in the middle atmosphere of Mars by SPICAM/MEX 8MS3-PA-14 Vladimir Annual mean mixing ratios 16.40-17.00 KRASNOPOLSKY of N2, Ar, O2, and CO in the martian atmosphere 8MS3-PA-15 Maxim LITVAK Inter-annual variations 17.00-17.20 of Martian seasonal caps from neutron spectroscopy observations onboard Mars Odyssey 8MS3-PA-16 Salvador JIMÉNEZ Magnetic field at Mars 17.20-17.40 et al ionosphere from MARSIS data. Models and simulations 8MS3-PA-17 Valery Neutral escape at Mars 17.40-18.00 SHEMATOVICH induced by the high-energy H/H+ of solar wind origin POSTER SESSION (all sessions) 18.00-19.00 progr-3 tuesday, 10 october 2017 session 2. LUNAR AND PLANETARY GEOLOGY 10.00-18.00 conveners: Igor MITROFANOV, Maxim LITVAK 8MS3-PG-01 Maxim Crater age and hydrogen 10.00-10.20 LITVAK et al content in lunar regolith from LEND neutron data 8MS3-PG-02 Alexander Recent tectonic deformation 10.20-10.40 BAZILEVSKY et al in the South pole area of the Moon 8MS3-PG-03 Andrew Preliminary data on the age 10.40-11.00 DMITROVSKY interval of the Mons Rumker et al volcanic province formation 8MS3-PG-04 Arne GRUMPE Daytime-dependent 11.00-11.20 et al variations of the lunar surficial OH/H2O content 8MS3-PG-05 Daniela ROMMEL South Pole-Aitken Basin: 11.20-11.40 et al Anorthosite rich material as indicator for a complex layering of the basin crust structure coffee-break 11.40-12.00 8MS3-PG-06 Mariya Wave phenomena 12.00-12.20 BUCHENKOVA et al in the Moon environment 8MS3-PG-07 Audrey The Moon observed 12.20-12.40 VORBURGER in Energetic Neutral Atoms: et al Review of the Scientific Findings from SARA/CENA on board Chandrayaan-1 8MS3-PG-08 Anton SANIN et al Potentially interesting 12.40-13.00 landing sites around the South pole of the Moon lunch 13.00-14.00 8MS3-PG-09 Carle PIETERS Diversity of materials 14.00-14.20 et al at Luna 24 site from Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) 8MS3-PG-10 Anastasia Craters features of the 14.20-14.40 ZHARKOVA Moon and Mercury et al Southern polar regions 8MS3-PG-11 Ariel DEUTSCH New evidence for surface 14.40-15.00 et al ice in micro-cold traps and in three large craters at the North polar region on Mercury: implications for lunar exploration 8MS3-PG-12 Ekaterina Thermal and illumination 15.00-15.20 FEOKTISTOVA conditions in the radar et al features host craters in the Mercury’s South pole region 8MS3-PG-13 Svetlana Morphological features 15.20-15.40 PUGACHEVA et al of Mercury South pole relief 8MS3-PG-14 James HEAD et al Deciphering the Noachian 15.40-16.00 geological and climate history of Mars: Part 2- A Noachian stratigraphic view of major geologic processes and their climatic consequences coffee-break 16.00-16.20 8MS3-PG-15 Denis LISOV et al Water and Chlorine 16.20-16.40 abundance in the Gale crater according to DAN data 8MS3-PG-16 Benjamin MARSSIM Landform 16.40-17.00 BOATWRIGHT and Evolution Model: Hydrologic James HEAD Constraints on the Noachian Early Dry Period progr-4 8MS3-PG-17 James HEAD Venus Geological History: 17.00-17.20 Current Perspectives, Unknowns, and Opportunities for the Modeling Community 8MS3-PG-18 Evgeniya Rift zones of Venus: Possible 17.20-17.40 GUSEVA terrestial analogues 8MS3-PG-19 Piero D’INCECCO Imdr Regio as the landing site 17.40-18.00 and L.S.
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