CU-Boulder Researcher To Participate In Mercury Mission Briefing July 3

University of Colorado at Boulder Senior Research Associate Bill McClintock will participate in a NASA media teleconference on Thursday, July 3, to discuss new findings from the most recent flyby of Mercury by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft. McClintock of CU-Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics led the instrument development team for the $8.7 million Mercury Atmospheric and Surface Composition Spectrometer, or MASCS, a CU-Boulder instrument riding on MESSENGER as it looped within 125 miles of Mercury's surface Jan. 14. McClintock is one of four MESSENGER scientists who will participate in the noon MDT media teleconference to discuss new evidence of volcanism, the origins of Mercury's magnetic field and the composition of the bizarre planet's tenuous atmosphere. The new results are being published in 11 papers... [read full story]