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Carolyn M. Ernst

Researcher at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Publications -  214
Citations -  6891

Carolyn M. Ernst is an academic researcher from Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mercury (element) & Impact crater. The author has an hindex of 36, co-authored 203 publications receiving 5360 citations. Previous affiliations of Carolyn M. Ernst include Brown University & Johns Hopkins University.

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A Mercury Lander Mission Concept Study for the Next Decadal Survey

TL;DR: The BepiColombo mission of NASA's Mars Exploration of Mercury (MESSENGER) as mentioned in this paper revealed a history of expansive effusive and explosive volcanism, substantial radial contraction of the planet from interior cooling, offset of the dipole moment of the internal magnetic field northward from the geographic equator by approximately 20% of the radius, crustal magnetization, unexpected seasonal variability and relationships among exospheric species and processes, and the presence in permanently shadowed polar terrain of water ice and other volatile materials, likely to include complex organic compounds.