PLANETARY EXPLORATION NEWSLETTER Volume 1, Number 13 (August 5, 2007) PEN Website: http://planetarynews.org Editor: Nic Richmond Co-Editors: Mark V. Sykes, Matt Balme Email: pen_editor at psi.edu o-------------------------TABLE OF CONTENTS---------------------------o 1. [NASA] ROSES: New Due Date for Terrestrial Ecology Program 2. AAPG 2008 CALL FOR PAPERS: Astrogeology - A Far-Sighted Look at Unconventional Resources 3. AAPG 2008 CALL FOR PAPERS: Return to the Moon: Research, Rewards, and Research 4. Planetary Science Sessions at the Fall AGU Meeting 5. Planetary Meeting Calendar Additions o---------------------------------------------------------------------o 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1 [NASA] ROSES: NEW DUE DATE FOR TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY PROGRAM The due date for proposals to the Terrestrial Ecology program element described in Appendix A.4 of ROSES-2007 has been changed. The due date for submitting a proposal is changed from August 15, 2007, to September 20, 2007. [Editor: For more information on this program go to http://nspires.nasaprs.com/ (select "Solicitations" then "Open Solicitations" then "NNH07ZDA001N", then select the appropriate program document.] 2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2 AAPG 2008 CALL FOR PAPERS: ASTROGEOLOGY-A FAR-SIGHTED LOOK AT UNCONVENTIONAL RESOURCES In keeping with the theme of the 2008 convention, Deliver the Conventional; Pursue the Unconventional, the technical session "Astrogeology-A Far-Sighted Look at Unconventional Resources" is planned for the American Association of Petroleum Geologists 2008 Annual Convention and Exposition held at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center during Fiesta Week (April 20-23, 2008) in San Antonio, Texas (http://www.aapg.org/sanantonio/). Our lives depend in part upon our ability to locate and extract natural resources. To travel beyond Earth's orbit to Mars and destinations beyond, we must locate and harvest more distant resources. This requires that we adapt current or develop new technologies for locating, evaluating, and efficiently recovering in situ resources. This technical session will address processes or features that may influence or indicate the presence and distribution of potential resources at or below planetary surfaces, technologies for detecting and evaluating surface and subsurface resources, and technologies for efficient and economic recovery and utilization of in situ resources. Session co-chairs Darrell Sims and Cynthia Dinwiddie welcome submissions from the planetary community and particularly encourage submissions from industry and Earth scientists regarding practical methods for eliciting information about the potential presence of planetary resources and technologies for in situ resource utilization. 3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3 AAPG 2008 CALL FOR PAPERS: RETURN TO THE MOON: RESEARCH, REWARDS, AND RESEARCH In the advent of NASA's planned return to the Moon in the next decade and possible private sector resource-related activity there, a variety of important technical issues will need to be addressed to ensure a stable lunar settlement, exploration and development of lunar resources, efficient and economic extraction of resources, and an improved understanding of Lunar surface and subsurface materials and processes. The technical session "Return to the Moon: Research, Rewards, and Research," co-chaired by Harrison H. Schmitt and William A. Ambrose will address many of these issues. The scope of the session will encompass lunar resource economics and exploration, surficial and subsurface materials and processes, resources such as Helium-3, consumables and propellants, resource extraction technology, and future missions to the Moon. The period for AAPG 2008 abstract submission is August 27 to September 27, 2007. To learn more about AAPG 2008 in San Antonio, visit http://www.aapg.org/sanantonio/ 4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4 PLANETARY SCIENCE SESSIONS AT THE FALL AGU MEETING The Fall American Geophysical Union Meeting will be held in San Francisco from 10-14 December, 2007. The deadline for abstract submission is 6 September 2007, 2359 UT. Full details about the meeting can be found here: http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm07/ The science sessions sponsored or co-sponsored by the AGU Planetary Sciences Section are listed below. A full description of each of these sessions can be found via the link above. P01: Planetary Sciences General Contributions P02: Lava Flows: A Solar System Perspective P03: Enceladus: Possibilites for Water and Life P04: Planetary Rings: Observation and Theory P05: Earth and Moon as a Binary Planet System P06: The State of Martian Water From The Hesperian to Modern Day P07: Composition, Stratigraphy, and Structure of the Phyllosian/ Noachian Crust and Implications for Early Mars P08: Mostly Icy, Never Dull: The Diverse Natures of the Outer Planet Satellites P09: Laboratory Investigations Related to Analyses of Mars Data P10: Recent Climate Change on Mars: Insights From Terrestrial Analogs P11: The Plasma Environment of Saturn, its Satellites and Rings P12: Views of an Icy Mars Through the Eyes of MRO P13: Follow the Oxidants Chemical Energy for Planetary Environments and Life P14: Laboratory Investigations Into the Compositions of Solid Surfaces From the Asteroid Belt to the Oort Cloud P15: Probing the Mysteries of Iapetus P16: Geophysics and Geodesy Experiments on the Moon P17: A New Spin on Saturn? Recent Results of the Atmosphere and Interior From Cassini and Earth-Based Observations P18: Geomorphic Evidence for Water On Mars: Origin and Implications for Martian Channels P19: Mars Weather and Climate: View From the Current Missions P20: Rendezvous at Venus P21: Saturns Titan: An Integrated Perspective P22: Geomorphology of Mars: Insights From MRO into the Processes That Shape the Martian Surface P23: Radar Sounding Investigations of Planetary Ice P24: Return to Europa P25: New Horizons and the Upheaval at Jupiter AE06: Planetary Atmospheric Electricity and Lightning C04: In Situ Life Detection and Characterization in Icy Environments on Earth and in the Solar System DI03: Structure and Dynamics of Earth's Core GC06: Gas Hydrates: Global and Planetary Reservoirs for Water and Carbon GP02: Geodynamics and Statistical Properties of Terrestrial and Planetary Magnetic Fields H40: Interactions Between Fluids and Fractures IN12: Building Community and Governance within Earth and Space Science Content Models MR05: Shock Metamorphism and Mineral Physics of Dynamic Compression MR07: Multidisciplinary Approaches in the Study of Planetary Ices MR11: Advances in Computational Studies of Earth Materials PP11: Sea Level Change Over the Last Two Million Years: Constraints on Ice-Sheet Response to Global Climate Change SM03: Magnetotails of Jupiter and Saturn T35: New Perspectives on Crustal Heat Generation and Lithospheric Thickness in Precambrian Terrains V14: Saucer-Shaped Sills, Injected Sands and Related Structures: Formation Mechanisms, Examples, and Extra-Terrestrial Analogues V26: Mud Volcanoes and Their Eruption Dynamics V34: Innovations in Isotope Mass Spectrometry in Geochemistry V36: New Developments in Geochronology 5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5 PLANETARY MEETING CALENDAR ADDITIONS Posted at http://planetarynews.org/meetings.html Nov 14-15, 2007 Workshop on Water in Planetary Basalts Houston, TX http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/basalts2007/ Apr 20-23, 2008 American Association of Petroleum Geologists Convention and Exhibition San Antonio, TX http://www.aapg.org/sanantonio/intro.cfm Apr 28-May 1, 2008 AAS Division on Dynamical Astronomy Boulder, Colorado http://dda.harvard.edu/ [Editor Note: As this is a new service, a large number of additional meetings have been identified and added to the calendar in addition to the meetings above, which were submitted to PEN this past week. Going forward, it is our intention to note all meetings posted since the previous PEN.] *********************************************************************** * * The Planetary Exploration Newsletter is issued approximately weekly. * Current and back issues are available at * * http://planetarynews.org * * To subscribe, go to http://planetarynews.org/pen_subscribe.html * * To unsubscribe, go to http://planetarynews.org/pen_unsubscribe.html * * Please send all replies and submissions to pen_editor at psi.edu. * Announcements and other messages should be brief with links to URLs * for extended information, including detailed descriptions for job * announcements. Go to the PEN website for submission directions. * ***********************************************************************