PLANETARY EXPLORATION NEWSLETTER Volume 7, Number 33 (July 28, 2013) PEN Website: http://planetarynews.org Editor: Mark V. Sykes Co-Editors: Melissa Lane, Susan Benecchi Email: pen_editor at psi.edu o-------------------------TABLE OF CONTENTS---------------------------o 1. Jeffrey K. Wagner (Mar 11, 1952 - July 8, 2013) 2. Presentations from the NASA Planetary Science Subcommittee Telecon, July 19, 2013 3. AGU Session P018 - Mercury after Two Years of MESSENGER Orbital Observations 4. AGU Session P025 - Saturn's Northern Spring, From Storms to Polar Vortices 5. AGU Session P029 - The Science of Exploration as Enabled by the Moon, NEAs and the Moons of Mars 6. AGU Session P030 - Thermal Modeling of Terrestrial and Planetary Bodies 7. AGU Session V032 - Pattern to Process 8. AGU Sessions P010 Comet ISON Early Results and Session P023 Rosetta, Comets and Origins of the Solar System 9. GSA 2013 Outer Solar System Satellites Companion Sessions 10. International Cometary Workshop Rescheduled for April 1-3, 2014 11. Save the Date: Asteroid Redirect Mission and Grand Challenge Workshop 12. Date Correction: Lunar Exploration Analysis Group Abstract Deadline Approaching 13. Job Announcement - University of Muenster 14. 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 JEFFREY K. WAGNER (MARCH 11, 1952 - JULY 8, 2013) It is with great sadness that we announce the death from brain cancer of Dr. Jeffrey K. Wagner, Professor of Astronomy and Geology at Bowling Green State University Firelands College. Jeff's name is familiar to everyone in the field of spectroscopy of planetary surfaces. His seminal work on the ultraviolet reflectances of planetary materials, which formed his Ph.D dissertation, opened a new field in planetary spectroscopy, and his papers resulting from his thesis are still cited over 30 years later. 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 PRESENTATIONS FROM THE NASA PLANETARY SCIENCE SUBCOMMITTEE TELECON, JULY 19, 2013 The NASA Advisory Council Planetary Science Subcommittee held a telecon on July 19, 2013. The presentation materials are available at: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/pss/ You will find presentations by Jim Green on the status of the Planetary Science Division, by Mitch Schulte on the Mars 2020 SDT, and by Chris House on the Astrobiology Roadmap. The Meeting Report will be posted there soon. 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 AGU SESSION P018 - MERCURY AFTER TWO YEARS OF MESSENGER ORBITAL OBSERVATIONS Second Notice Please consider submitting an abstract to the special session on Mercury at the 2013 AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, CA, December 9-13, 2013. After two full years of orbital observations of Mercury, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft began its Second Extended Mission in March. The Second Extended Mission is addressing Mercury's surprising volatile inventory, exploring newly revealed aspects of the planet's geological evolution, and witnessing the dynamic response of Mercury's exosphere and magnetosphere to the peak and early waning phases of solar activity. This session will highlight the latest results on Mercury from MESSENGER orbital observations and welcomes contributed papers on future mission opportunities, complementary ground-based observations, laboratory measurements, and theoretical developments relevant to planetary processes at Mercury. For more information, please visit: https://fallmeeting.agu.org/2013/scientific-program/session-search /sessions/p018-mercury-after-two-years-of-messenger-orbital -observations/ The submission deadline is August 6, 2013. Confirmed invited authors: Daniel Gershman (University of Michigan) Suzanne Imber (University of Leicester) Sebastiano Padovan (UCLA) Conveners: Paul Byrne (Carnegie Institution of Washington) Sean Solomon (Columbia University) Larry Nittler (Carnegie Institution of Washington) We look forward to seeing you in San Francisco. 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 SESSION P025 - SATURN'S NORTHERN SPRING, FROM STORMS TO POLAR VORTICES Conveners: Brigette Hesman, Kunio Sayanagi, Scott Edgington, and Kevin Baines AGU session, Abstracts due August 6th. This session solicits presentations on new Cassini, Hubble, and ground-based observations and the subsequent analyses of Saturn's atmosphere. The session will focus in particular on 1) the analysis of the great storm of 2010-2011 and its aftermath; and 2) new observation of Saturn's north pole, which is in sunlight for the first time since Cassini's arrival at Saturn. 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 AGU SESSION P029 - THE SCIENCE OF EXPLORATION AS ENABLED BY THE MOON, NEAS AND THE MOONS OF MARS Building upon the success of the NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI), the new Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI) will focus on the scientific aspects of exploration as they pertain to the Moon, Near Earth Asteroids (NEAs) and the moons of Mars. This session will feature interdisciplinary, exploration-related science centered around all airless bodies targeted as potential human destinations. Areas of study reported here will represent the broad spectrum of lunar, NEA, and Martian moon sciences encompassing investigations of the surface, interior, exosphere, and near-space environments as well as science uniquely enabled from these bodies. Please join the SSERVI planetary and exploration science community by submitting an abstract to this AGU session. Abstract deadline: August 6th https://fallmeeting.agu.org/2013/scientific-program/session-search /sessions/p029-the-science-of-exploration-as-enabled-by-the-moon-neas -and-the-moons-of-mars/ Conveners: Brad Bailey (brad.bailey@nasa.gov) David Morrison (david.morrison@nasa.gov) Yvonne J Pendleton (yvonne.pendleton@nasa.gov) Gregory Schmidt (gregory.k.schmidt@nasa.gov) 6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6 AGU SESSION P030 - THERMAL MODELING OF TERRESTRIAL AND PLANETARY BODIES Second Notice. We are inviting you to submit an abstract to the above fall AGU session. We are excited to be convening this session, as it gives us an opportunity to share our science results and techniques with the broad thermal modeling community, rather than just our narrow sub-discipline. Our hope is that this session will foster communication and facilitate collaborations between sub-disciplines or those working on different planetary bodies. Thermal modeling techniques are used to understand a broad range of geologic and atmospheric problems on solid planetary bodies, including but not limited to Earth, Europa, Io, Mars, and Titan. Examples of such problems include the cooling of lava flows, volcano/geothermal monitoring, surface and near sub-surface physical properties, crater deformation, and ice-rock interactions. The techniques used to address thermal modeling-related questions are often applicable across many disciplines, datasets, and topics. By sharing scientific results and/or thermal modeling techniques and applications from a broad range of sub-disciplines, we will foster interdisciplinary collaboration and cooperation within the diverse thermal modeling community. Abstract Deadline: 6 August 2013 Conveners: Robin Fergason, rfergason@usgs.gov (USGS, Astrogeology Science Center) Greg Vaughan, gvaughan@usgs.gov (USGS, Astrogeology Science Center) 7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7 AGU SESSION V032 - PATTERN TO PROCESS We would like to draw your attention to an exciting session at the upcoming AGU meeting: V032 - Pattern to Process: Remotely sensed observations of volcanic deposits and their implications for volcanic and surface processes on the terrestrial planets. Volcanic deposit characteristics observed in remotely sensed data are vital to our understanding of the development and evolution of planetary surfaces. Terrestrial analogs and remote observations provide the fiduciary data but limitations persist. For instance, reliable differentiation of lava flows from pyroclastic deposits in remote sensing data remains a challenge. Fundamental questions include: What are diagnostic features of lava flows and pyroclastic deposits? From these, what process and environmental insights can be gained? What other deposits can be easily confused with volcanic deposits? We propose a session that will address these questions and foster collaborations across volcanology, planetary geology, surface processes, and geomorphology. Invited talks will be given by Ian Skilling and John Bailey. Please consider contributing to this session. The abstract deadline August 6th! https://fallmeeting.agu.org/2013/ 8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8 AGU SESSIONS P010 COMET ISON EARLY RESULTS AND SESSION P023 ROSETTA, COMETS AND ORIGINS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM We would like to invite the community to submit an abstract to one of two cometary science sessions at the AGU Fall Meeting: Session P010 Comet ISON Early Results and Session P023 Rosetta, Comets and Origins of the Solar System. Spectacular comet ISON is on its way through the inner solar system, comet PANSTARRS passed by early in the year. And next year, 2014, the Rosetta mission will arrive at its target, comet 67/P Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Among the Rosetta mission goals is an increased understanding of the origins of the solar system. Contributions to our understanding of origins come from many directions, including but not limited to: meteorites, laboratory studies, modeling of collapsing discs. These sessions are open to papers on ISON first results, solar system origins, comet contributions to our understanding, laboratory and meteorite studies related to the topic. Session P023 is also open to contributions relevant to the Rosetta mission, including thermophysical modeling of the nucleus, radiative transfer, inverse modeling and other theoretical and laboratory results. 9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9 GSA 2013 OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM SATELLITES COMPANION SESSIONS We call to your attention two companion planetary science sessions at the annual Geological Society of America meeting held Oct 27-30 in Denver, CO focusing on studies related to the outer solar system satellites. T9: "Outer Satellite Exploration: The Next 50 Years". This session will discuss current paradigms and unanswered fundamental questions about outer planet satellites that will be important considerations in future outer solar system exploration, and mission and instrument concepts that address them. T12: "Voyager to New Horizons: Exploring Surface and Interior Processes of Icy Worlds". This session will highlight surface and tectonic processes, interiors, and the thermal evolution of icy satellites, KBOs, and planetary analogs. We encourage experimental and theoretical modeling studies, as well as observational approaches to address current scientific objectives. Additional information about the GSA meeting can be found at: http://community.geosociety.org/2013AnnualMeeting/Home/ To submit an abstract to either session please visit (Submission Deadline August 6th, 11:59pm PST): https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2013AM/cfp.epl Questions about session T9 should be directed to David Williams (David.Williams@asu.edu), and for session T12 should be directed to Emily Martin (mart5652@vandals.uidaho.edu). 10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10 INTERNATIONAL COMETARY WORKSHOP RESCHEDULED FOR APRIL 1-3, 2014 The International Cometary Workshop, originally scheduled for July 2013 was postponed due to the US Budget sequester and the NASA travel restrictions that were imposed in response to the sequester. We are pleased to announce that we have rescheduled the Workshop for April 1-3, 2014. It will take in Toulouse France, and the updated abstract deadline is January 31, 2014. The new registration deadline is February 28, 2014. Pre-registration is now available. For more information see our website at: http://icw.space.swri.edu 11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11 SAVE THE DATE: ASTEROID REDIRECT MISSION AND GRAND CHALLENGE WORKSHOP Dear Colleague: As follow-up to the Asteroid Initiative Request for Information, please hold September 30-October 2 for a technical workshop at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas, to discuss both the Asteroid Redirect Mission and the Grand Challenge. Virtual participation options will be available during the workshop, so please mark your calendar even if you aren't able to travel to Houston during that time. Further details will be posted on the RFI page: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/asteroids/initiative /asteroid-rfi.html#.Ueg49rYtaao by August 12, and we will send an e-mail follow-up with more specific information as it becomes available. For more information about the Asteroid Initiative, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/asteroidinitiative 12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12 DATE CORRECTION: LUNAR EXPLORATION ANALYSIS GROUP ABSTRACT DEADLINE APPROACHING Abstract Deadline: WEDNESDAY, July 31, 2013, 5:00 PM CDT The correct day of the deadline is Wednesday not Thursday as noted in the previous message. The call for abstracts with abstract submission templates and details are available at the meeting website: http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/leag2013/ 13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13 JOB ANNOUNCEMENT - UNIVERSITY OF MUENSTER The Institut fuer Planetologie, University of Muenster, invites applications for a scientific researcher position, starting on October 1, 2013 or as soon as possible thereafter. The salary level will be E13 TV-L (full-time). The duration will be 19 months; an extension for additional 24 months will be possible. Required Qualifications: - Experience in independent work in electron microscopy (TEM, FIB, etc.) and related sample preparation techniques - Knowledge in space weathering and other relevant processes - Background in mineralogy/planetology - Knowledge in laboratory experiments - Experience and willingness to present results at conferences and in peer reviewed journals The University of Muenster is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to increasing the proportion of women academics. Consequently, we actively encourage applications by women. Female candidates with equivalent qualifications and academic achievements will be preferentially considered within the framework of the legal possibilities. We also welcome applications from candidates with severe disabilities. Disabled candidates with equivalent qualifications will be preferentially considered. Travel expenses for an interview cannot be refunded. Please submit your applications including a cover letter, CV, and publication list until 11.08.2013 (PDF) to: Prof. Dr. H. Hiesinger mertis@uni-muenster.de For more information: http://www.uni-muenster.de/Rektorat/Stellen/ausschreibungen /st_20132507_sk6.html 14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14 PLANETARY MEETING CALENDAR ADDITIONS Posted at http://planetarynews.org/meetings.html September 30 - October 2, 2013 Asteroid Redirect Mission and Grand Challenge Workshop http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/asteroids/initiative /asteroid-rfi.html#.Ueg49rYtaao Houston, TX January 13-14, 2014 NASA Outer Planets Assessment Group Meeting http://www.lpi.usra.edu/opag/ Tucson, AZ March 1-8, 2014 IEEE Aerospace Conference http://www.aeroconf.org/ Big Sky, MT April 1-3, 2014 International Cometary Workshop http://icw.space.swri.edu Toulouse, France [Editor Note: If there is a planetary-related meeting, conference or workshop of which your colleagues should be aware, please send the date, title, URL and location to pen_editor at psi.edu.] *********************************************************************** * 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, or * send a request to pen_editor at psi.edu * * To unsubscribe, send an email to pen_editor at psi.edu * * 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. 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