The Planetary Exploration Newsletter (PEN) is intended to be an open conduit of news and announcements across the professional community of planetary science and related disciplines. It will distribute messages from NASA officials, meeting announcements from professional societies, job announcements, and your submissions of news regarding or impacting solar system exploration, upcoming mission events, awards, Congressional deliberations on the NASA budget, policy issues, and assessments of program performance. PEN will be distributed nominally once a week. There will be times when volume or events will require more frequent PEN distributions. An editorial board is being established that will consist of representatives from professional societies, research organizations, and academic departments engaged in planetary science to ensure the broadest possible participation and offer guidance to the editor. | ||||||||||||||
PEN is hosted by the Planetary Science Institute.