[P-PS11] Mercury Science and Exploration

[PPS11-P02] Insights into Mercury's Hydrogen Exosphere: Characterization and First Detection of H₂ Molecules

*Fabian Weichbold^1,2, Daniel Schmid¹, Helmut Lammer¹, Cyril Simon-Wedlund², Martin Volwerk¹, Manuel Scherf¹, Nikolai Erkaev^3,4, Ali Varsani¹, Christian Mazelle⁵ (1. Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, 2. Institute of Physics, University of Graz, Universitätsplatz 5, 8010 Graz, Austria, 3. Institute of Computational Modelling, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation, 4. The Applied Mechanics Department, Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation, 5. Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, CNRS, University of Toulouse, CNES, Toulouse, France)

Keywords:Mercury, Exosphere, Pick-up generated Ion Cyclotron Waves