Session 8. Inner Planets

Oral, Chair(s): T. Widemann and R.M. Nelson, Monday, October 7, 2002, 4:00-5:00pm, Room M

8.01 The Sodium Tail of Mercury

A.E. Potter (National Solar Observatory), R.M. Killen (Univ. of Maryland, College Park), T.H. Morgan (NASA HQ)

8.02 Mercury's sodium exosphere: new insights

F. Leblanc (Service d'Aeronomie du CNRS), R.E. Johnson (University of Virginia)

8.03 Polarization of the Sodium D-Lines in Mercury's Atmosphere

J. E. Allen, Jr. (NASA/GSFC), M. J. Penn (NSO), B. P. Michael (Catholic Univ. of America and NASA/GSFC), D. Branston (NSO), J. Ceja (Dept. of Physics & Ast., Cal. State-Northridge)

8.04 Wind measurements in Venus' lower mesosphere from CO2 visible observations

T. Widemann, E. Lellouch (Obs. Paris), J.P. Bretagne (Obs Haute-Provence), A. Campargue (Univ. J. Fourier, Grenoble)

8.05 Coherent Backscattering in Los Albedo Media

R. M. Nelson (Jet Propulsion Lab), B. W. Hapke (University of Pittsburgh), A. S. Hale, W. D. Smythe (Jet Propulsion Lab), J. Piatek (University of Pittsburgh)

8.06 Validity of Kirchhoff Theory for Electromagnetic Wave Scattering from Random Rough Surfaces with Emphasis on Fractal Models

A.K. Sultan Salem, G.L. Tyler (Stanford University)