PLANETARY EXPLORATION NEWSLETTER 
Volume 4, Number 8 (February 21, 2010)

PEN Website: http://planetarynews.org
Editor: Mark V. Sykes
Co-Editors: Melissa Lane, Nic Richmond
Email: pen_editor at psi.edu

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1. Water on Mars Summerschool at Utrecht University, the Netherlands
2. Planetary Decadal Survey Meeting, 22-24 February
3. AOGS Session: Science and Exploration of Mars and Venus (PS.05)
4. Planetary Meeting Calendar Additions

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WATER ON MARS SUMMERSCHOOL AT UTRECHT UNIVERSITY, THE NETHERLANDS

Announcement for bachelor students:

3, 2, 1, lift off! After fuelling with the latest scientific insights, 
you will conduct your own study of a Martian landscape with high-res 
images and laboratory experiments or numerical modelling.

http://www.utrechtsummerschool.nl/index.php?type=courses&code=H18


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PLANETARY DECADAL SURVEY MEETING, 22-24 FEBRUARY

The next meeting of the Steering Group for the Planetary Science 
Decadal Survey will take place in the Board Room of the National 
Academies' Beckman Center, 100 Academy Way, Irvine, California, 92617.  
The open sessions will be webcast at 

http://connect.arc.nasa.gov/psdecadal  

The audio is only available at 866-528-2256, access code 7078222.  
An agenda is available on the decadal survey's website at 

http://sites.nationalacademies.org/SSB/CurrentProjects/ssb_052412


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AOGS SESSION: SCIENCE AND EXPLORATION OF MARS AND VENUS (PS.05)

Annual Meeting of the AOGS (Asia-Oceania Geosciences Society)
Hyderabad, India, July 5-9, 2010

http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2010/index.asp

Deadline for Abstracts and Fee Waiver applications:  March 1, 2010

This session will address the latest results of the different ongoing 
missions in orbit around Mars and Venus as well as those on the surface 
of Mars. It will cover all fields of research from the ionosphere and 
the atmosphere to the surface and interior of both planets. With Mars 
Global Surveyor, Mars Express, Venus Express, Mars Odyssey, Mars 
Reconnaissance Orbiter, MERs and Phoenix, we have been able to address 
these fields of research improving and modifying our understanding of 
Mars and Venus significantly. The session is primarily targeted at 
presentations of new measurements, but authors presenting papers on 
theory and modeling in support of the analysis of new results will be 
most welcome. The second objective of the session is to discuss 
upcoming future missions and the results obtained from new ground based 
observations. Broad solicited talks and contributed presentations will 
be highlighted in the program. 

Contact: Prof. S.A Haider (Physical Research Laboratory, India) 
haider@prl.res.in

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PLANETARY MEETING CALENDAR ADDITIONS

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

June 8-10, 2010
Joint Space Resources Roundtable (SRR) / Planetary & Terrestrial Mining 
Sciences Symposium (PTMSS)
http://www.isruinfo.com/
Golden, CO

June 14-16, 2010 
International workshop on Paolo Farinella (1953-2000): The scientist and the man
http://www.ifsi-roma.inaf.it/ifsi/index.php?categoryid=95
Pisa, Italy

June 14-18, 2010
Astrobiology Graduate Conference (AbGradCon) 2010
http://www.abgradcon2010.org/
Tallberg, Sweden

September 19-25, 2010            
European Planetary Science Congress EPSC 2010
http://meetings.copernicus.org/epsc2010/
Rome, Italy

[Editor Note: If there is a planetary-related meeting, conference or
workshop that you think your colleagues should be aware of, please
send the date, title, URL and location to pen_editor at psi.edu.]

 
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