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1. 2025 NASA Planetary Science Summer School Applications Due March 18
2. [NASA] SMD: Update to NASA Science Advisory Committees
3. [NASA] PDS: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Data Release 61
4. Save the Date for CHEOPS Guest Observers 6th Announcement of
   Opportunity
5. Call for Paper Submissions - Exploring Solar Wind Interactions with
   Inner Solar System Bodies: New Frontiers, Insights, and Future
   Directions
6. 9th Interstellar Symposium, October 12-15, 2025, Austin TX, USA
7. VEXAG: Venus Listserv News
8. New Horizons Science Spotlight Webinar (Time-zone Correction)
9. American Astronomical Society (AAS) Division for Planetary Sciences
   (DPS) 2025 Advocacy
10. Smashing It: How Impacts Forge Formation, Dynamics, and Climates of
    (Exo)Planets, June 3-5, 2025, University of Leeds
11. Planetary Meeting Calendar Additions
12. Planetary Science Journal - New Papers
13. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets - New Papers

Commercial/Fundraising Announcements:

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2025 NASA PLANETARY SCIENCE SUMMER SCHOOL APPLICATIONS DUE MARCH 18

NASA is accepting applications for 2025 PSSS - from engineering
students near to completion of their MS degree, science and engineering
Postdocs, recent PhDs, Doctoral candidates, and Junior Faculty. PSSS is
a 3 month-long science mission design career development experience
with the workload equivalent to a university graduate course.

Sessions are run by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena CA
May 8 - August 1, 2025 and May 22 - August 15, 2025.

For more information, please visit:

https://tinyurl.com/2f93dcrz

You can also watch the recorded PSSS Informational Webinar held on
February 12, 2025 at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4SrUhm7xsQ


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[NASA] SMD: UPDATE TO NASA SCIENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEES

Executive Order 14217, Commencing the Reduction of the Federal
Bureaucracy, sets forth the Administration's policy of reducing the
size of the Federal government in order to minimize waste and abuse,
reduce inflation and promote American freedom and innovation. This
Executive Order directed the termination of several Federal advisory
committees across the government and ordered the identification of
additional unnecessary Federal advisory committees for termination.

NASA maintains an advisory committee for each of the five science
divisions within the Science Mission Directorate: Astrophysics,
Biological and Physical Sciences, Earth Science, Heliophysics, and
Planetary Science. In response to Executive Order 14217, NASA's acting
administrator, Janet Petro, has directed NASA to merge these five
committees into a single advisory committee with broad representation
from across the NASA science community. This restructuring will provide
the opportunity to retain one non-statutory science committee and ensure
continued support of NASA science goals - improving efficiency, while
ensuring NASA maintains the important process of engaging with the
science community.

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[NASA] PDS: LUNAR RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER DATA RELEASE 61

The NASA Planetary Data System announces Release 61 of data from the
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission. This release contains raw,
calibrated, and derived data products covering the nominal time period
from September 15 through December 14, 2024. Some instrument teams are
delivering more recent data. The data are archived at various PDS nodes.

- CRaTER at the PPI Node
- Diviner at the Geosciences Node
- LAMP at the Cartography and Imaging Sciences Node
- LEND at the Geosciences Node
- LOLA at the Geosciences Node
- LROC at the LROC Data Node
- Mini-RF at the Geosciences Node
- Radio Science at the Geosciences Node
- SPICE at the NAIF Node

The data may be accessed from

https://pds-geosciences.wustl.edu/missions/lro/

Or for a dataset-oriented perspective:

https://pds.nasa.gov/datasearch/subscription-service/SS-20250314.shtml

LRO releases occur every three months. The next release is scheduled for
June 13, 2025.


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SAVE THE DATE FOR CHEOPS GUEST OBSERVERS 6TH ANNOUNCEMENT OF
OPPORTUNITY

The European Space Agency's (ESA's) Characterising Exoplanet Satellite
(CHEOPS) mission foresees its 6th Announcement of Opportunity (AO-6) to
the Guest Observers (GO) Programme.

Key Dates: The AO-6 Call is foreseen to open on the 18 March 2025
(12:00 CET) and close on the 8 May 2025 (12:00 CEST).

Observing Cycle: The selected proposals will be observed from 1 October
2025 to 30 September 2026. This period marks the last year of the first
mission extension of CHEOPS.

Scientific Opportunities: CHEOPS provides observers with access to
space-based pointed ultra-high precision photometry. Research areas
include the observations of exoplanet transits, eclipses, occultations,
phase curves and any other time-domain phenomena.

Collaborative Synergies: The timely overlap of several space- and
ground-based missions may provide exciting opportunities for synergies
with NASA/ESA/CSA JWST, NASA/ESA HST, NASA TESS, ESO ground-based
facilities, and more.

Live hands-on tutorials: We foresee to run hands-on tutorials on March
and April 2025 at various time-zones to guide you through the proposal
preparation and submission process and answer all your questions.
Please register at the link below if you would like to attend or watch
the recordings:

https://tinyurl.com/3bchyzxf

Contact: cheops-support@cosmos.esa.int


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CALL FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS - EXPLORING SOLAR WIND INTERACTIONS WITH
INNER SOLAR SYSTEM BODIES: NEW FRONTIERS, INSIGHTS, AND FUTURE
DIRECTIONS

The solar wind heavily influences the environments around inner Solar
System bodies. Interactions vary throughout the inner Solar System: from
the intrinsic magnetospheres of Mercury and Earth to the induced and
hybrid magnetospheres of Venus and Mars; from the weathering of lunar
and small rocky body surfaces to the local effects of crustal fields.
Understanding the wide range of solar wind interactions and driving of
these environments has long been an active area of research, with recent
and exciting opportunities in observations, modeling, and computing
capabilities enabling new insight.

As such, we would like to encourage paper submissions to the Frontiers
Research Topic on "Exploring Solar Wind Interactions with Inner Solar
System Bodies: New Frontiers, Insights, and Future Directions". More
information on the special issue can be found at:

https://www.frontiersin.org/researchtopic/69740

The closing deadline for submissions is 6 September 2025.


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9TH INTERSTELLAR SYMPOSIUM, OCTOBER 12-15, 2025, AUSTIN TX, USA

The Interstellar Research Group (IRG)'s 9th Interstellar Symposium, in
collaboration with the International Academy of Astronautics, will be
held at the AT&T Conference Center, near the University of Texas
(Austin), from October 12-15, 2025.

Event Highlights:
- Collaborative Agenda: Bringing together experts from both IRG and IAA,
  the symposium will feature keynote presentations, panel discussions,
  and interactive workshops.
- Networking Opportunities: Attendees will have numerous opportunities
  to connect, share insights, and establish new collaborations across
  diverse fields.
- Cutting-Edge Research: Explore the latest developments and future
  trends in our disciplines, driving forward the boundaries of
  scientific discovery.

The Call for Papers is available at:

https://tinyurl.com/464f5btj

We encourage all IAA members to submit abstracts, mark their calendars,
and join us in what promises to be an inspiring and transformative
event.

For more information, please visit our websites at:

https://irg.space/

and

https://iaaspace.org/

Should you have any questions or require further details, feel free to
reach out to our events team at events@irg.space.

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VEXAG: VENUS LISTSERV NEWS

The Venus science, technology, and exploration community has an
independent listserv newsletter currently run by VEXAG in the form of a
google group. The listserv produces 1-3 notes per month on average,
though that rate may increase in the coming months.

Registration is free at:

https://groups.google.com/a/psi.edu/g/venus


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NEW HORIZONS SCIENCE SPOTLIGHT WEBINAR (Time-zone Correction)

Join us on 27 March 2025, 2:30-3pm EDT (11:30-12 PDT,12:30-1pm MDT,
1:30-2pm CDT)

New Horizons continues its operation, now at 61au from the Sun. Since
2015 it has made ground-breaking discoveries of the Pluto-Charon
system, flown past the small contact KBO binary Arrokoth and collected
phase and light curve data for some three-dozen additional KBOs and the
ice giants. It has also been sampling dust density throughout the Solar
System and studying the cosmic optical background. To raise awareness
of New Horizon's scientific impact we are beginning a new spotlight
seminar series (30 min, fourth week each month) which we invite you to
attend online, or watch recorded at your convenience.

Our speaker will be Simon Porter of Southwest Research Institute and he
will be speaking on: "Measuring the Shapes of Kuiper Belt Objects With
New Horizons Photometry"

Connection Link:

https://zoom.us/j/97317697636?pwd=MTAzMjJmNThTeFppR3JoYzlkUXVCQT09

Meeting ID: 973 1769 7636
Passcode: 802327

Calendar for future seminars:

https://tinyurl.com/2dp85h2h

Recordings are archived and posted at:

https://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/index.php#Spotlight-Presentations

For questions, contact New Horizons CoI Susan Benecchi, susank@psi.edu


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AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY (AAS) DIVISION FOR PLANETARY SCIENCES
(DPS) 2025 ADVOCACY

The American Astronomical Society (AAS) Division for Planetary Sciences
(DPS) completed a series of annual visits to Capitol Hill, to discuss
planetary science community priorities and funding, in early March
2025. This year's advocacy documents (one-pager and letter) are
publicly available here:

https://dps.aas.org/public_policy/communicating-congress/

During the numerous meetings with Congressional offices, we discussed
the impact of recent Executive Orders and other Presidential
Administration directives on the planetary science community, and in
particular for NASA and NSF, we emphasized the need to maintain U.S.
leadership in space exploration and continued education about the
Planetary Science and Astrobiology decadal survey, among other topics.
Our messaging was well received this year by the Congress, and will be
followed by continued advocacy of the AAS DPS Federal Relations
Subcommittee (FRS) in early May 2025.


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SMASHING IT: HOW IMPACTS FORGE FORMATION, DYNAMICS, AND CLIMATES OF
(EXO)PLANETS, JUNE 3-5, 2025, UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS

We invite you to join us at the international conference "Smashing It:
How Impacts Forge Formation, Dynamics, and Climates of (Exo)Planets" at
the University of Leeds, UK. The meeting will be held from Tuesday,
June 3 to Thursday, June 5, 2025.

This workshop will bring together about 50 researchers exploring how
impacts influence the formation, dynamics, and habitability of rocky
(exo)planets. The program will feature a balanced schedule of
contributed talks from experts in astronomy, planetary science,
geoscience, meteoritics, and laboratory experiments.

To apply to attend this meeting and find more details regarding the
scope, program, venue, and other practicalities, please visit our
website:

https://sites.google.com/view/wg4workshop/home

The final deadline for all applications will be March 30, 2025. We
expect more than 50 applications due to the broad scope of this meeting
and the SOC will apply a selection procedure. This is why it is an
"application" to the meeting rather than a "registration."

Do not book nor organise any travel/accommodation until you have
confirmation of acceptance of your application to attend the meeting.


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PLANETARY MEETING CALENDAR ADDITIONS

Note: Many face-to-face meetings going forward will have online
components. Check their websites for details.

Posted at https://planetarynews.org/meetings.html

April 9-10, 2025
Lunar Surface Science Workshop Virtual Session 26: Uncrewed Science
with the Pressurized Rover
https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lunarsurface2020/
Online

April 29-May 1
Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group (MEPAG) Hybrid Meeting #42
https://www.lpi.usra.edu/mepag/meetings/mepagapril2025/
Boulder, CO

May 5-7, 2025
Extraterrestrial Materials Analysis Group (ExMAG) May 2025
https://www.lpi.usra.edu/exmag/meetings/exmagmay2025/
Houston, TX

June 22-26, 2025
Workshop for Early Career Geoscience Faculty
https://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/earlycareer2025/index.html
Saint Paul, MN

June 23-24, 2025
Space CHI 4.0 at the European Astronaut Centre
https://spacechi.media.mit.edu
Cologne, Germany

June 23-25, 2025
Earth and Planetary Cloud Workshop 2025
https://www.nasa.gov/jpl/pcarf/workshop-2025/
Pasadena, CA

July 14-18, 2025
87th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (MetSoc 2025)
https://metsoc2025.au
Perth, Australia

July 23-24, 2025
Astrobiology Spectral Database Workshop 2025
https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/asd2025/
Online

September 16-20, 2025
Cosmic Dust
https://www.cps-jp.org/~dust/
Osaka, Japan

October 7-9, 2025
The Workshop on Bennu and Ryugu: Samples from the Early Solar System
https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/bennuryugu2025/
Houston, TX

October 12-15, 2025
9th Interstellar Symposium
https://iaaspace.org/
Austin, TX

November 3-7, 2025
6th Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) Symposium
https://www.cospar-assembly.org/symposia/
Nicosia, Cyprus

November 3-7, 2025
Jovian Icy Moons' Surface Interactions with Their Environment
https://tinyurl.com/bdernvck
Madrid, Spain

November 12-14, 2025
Second Lunar Polar Volatiles Conference
https://www.higp.hawaii.edu/lpv2025/
Honolulu, HI

January 5-7, 2026
Second Workshop on Ices in the Solar System
https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/ices2026/
Montreal, Canada


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PLANETARY SCIENCE JOURNAL - NEW PAPERS

Direct Links to Open Access Papers
Editor, Faith Vilas

https://psj.aas.org

No new papers.


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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: PLANETS - NEW PAPERS

Direct Links to Open Access (OA) Papers
Editor-in-Chief, Amanda Hendrix

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/21699100

No new papers.


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