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Mr Chris Malliband

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  • Research Student
  • Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics
  • School of Physical Sciences
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Professional biography

I am in my final year of my PhD at the OU. The main goal of my project is to produce a geological map of the Derain quadrangle of Mercury. This has lead to work on small smooth patches, and what they may be able to tell us about Mercury's late magmatic history.

My other key reserch topic has been small scale mass movements on Mercury. These features are a geologically recent features, and may be linked to Mercury's enigmatic hollows.

Mercury has been the least explored terrestrial planet. Recent imagery from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft has provided the first global dataset and the first imagery of the Derain quadrangle. My work is part of an international project to map Mercury in preparation for ESA/JAXA’s upcoming BepiColombo mission to Mercury.

Prior to starting at the Open University, I completed an MSci in Geoscience at the University of Durham. I completed research examining the timing of volcanism and structural geology in an area including Perunitsa and Khosedem Fossae, on Venus.

Publications

Rationale for BepiColombo Studies of Mercury’s Surface and Composition (2020-06)
Rothery, David A.; Massironi, Matteo; Alemanno, Giulia; Barraud, Océane; Besse, Sebastien; Bott, Nicolas; Brunetto, Rosario; Bunce, Emma; Byrne, Paul; Capaccioni, Fabrizio; Capria, Maria Teresa; Carli, Cristian; Charlier, Bernard; Cornet, Thomas; Cremonese, Gabriele; D’Amore, Mario; De Sanctis, M. Cristina; Doressoundiram, Alain; Ferranti, Luigi; Filacchione, Gianrico; Galluzzi, Valentina; Giacomini, Lorenza; Grande, Manuel; Guzzetta, Laura G.; Helbert, Jörn; Heyner, Daniel; Hiesinger, Harald; Hussmann, Hauke; Hyodo, Ryuku; Kohout, Tomas; Kozyrev, Alexander; Litvak, Maxim; Lucchetti, Alice; Malakhov, Alexey; Malliband, Christopher; Mancinelli, Paolo; Martikainen, Julia; Martindale, Adrian; Maturilli, Alessandro; Milillo, Anna; Mitrofanov, Igor; Mokrousov, Maxim; Morlok, Andreas; Muinonen, Karri; Namur, Olivier; Owens, Alan; Nittler, Larry R.; Oliveira, Joana S.; Palumbo, Pasquale; Pajola, Maurizio; Pegg, David L.; Penttilä, Antti; Politi, Romolo; Quarati, Francesco; Re, Cristina; Sanin, Anton; Schulz, Rita; Stangarone, Claudia; Stojic, Aleksandra; Tretiyakov, Vladislav; Väisänen, Timo; Varatharajan, Indhu; Weber, Iris; Wright, Jack; Wurz, Peter and Zambon, Francesca
Space Science Reviews, 216, Article 66(4)

Potential Identification of sublimation-driven downslope mass movement on Mercury (2018-05)
Malliband, C. C.; Conway, S. J.; Rothery, D. A. and Balme, M. R.
In : Mercury: Current and Future Science of the Innermost Planet (1-3 May 2018, Columbia, Maryland, USA)

1:3M Geological Mapping of the Derain (H-10) Quadrangle of Mercury (2018-05)
Malliband, C. C.; Rothery, D. A.; Balme, M. R. and Conway, S. J.
In : Mercury: Current and Future Science 2018 (1-3 May 2018, Columbia, MD, USA)

Small smooth units (‘young’ lavas?) abutting lobate scarps on Mercury (2018-05)
Malliband, C. C.; Rothery, D. A.; Balme, M. R. and Conway, S. J.
In : Mercury: Current and Future Science 2018 (1-3 May 2018, Columbia, MD, USA)

Preliminary Results of 1:3 Million Geological Mapping of the Mercury Quadrangle H-10 (Derain) (2017-03)
Malliband, C. C.; Rothery, D. A.; Balme, M. R. and Conway, S. J.
In : 48th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (20-24 Mar 2017, The Woodlands, Houston, Texas)

The Geological History of Aleksota Mons, Venus (2017-03)
Malliband, C. C.; Martin, P.; McCaffrey, K. J. W.; Macpherson, C.G. and Stofan, E.R.
In : 48th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (20-24 Mar 2017, The Woodlands, Houston, Texas)