PLANETARY EXPLORATION NEWSLETTER Volume 10, Number 21 (May 15, 2016) PEN Website: http://planetarynews.org Editor: Karen R. Stockstill-Cahill Co-Editors: Susan Benecchi, Mark V. Sykes Email: pen_editor at psi.edu o-------------------------TABLE OF CONTENTS---------------------------o 1. [NASA] ASTRO-H Guest Observer - Cycle 1 Cancellation 2. [NASA] Concepts for Ocean worlds Life Detection Technology (COLDTech) 3. 28th Edition of the IAC Winter School: Solar System Exploration 4. MAVEN Science Team Meeting 5. 88th GSI Congress Abstract Deadline Postponed 6. Call for Participation - SOCET SET Training Opportunity 7. 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] ASTRO-H GUEST OBSERVER - CYCLE 1 CANCELLATION NASA planned to issue a call for Guest Observer proposals for the ASTRO-H mission but due to an anomaly experienced by the Hitomi spacecraft on March 26, 2016, and the subsequent loss of the mission, the planned release of this program element has been canceled. Announcement: NNH16ZDA001N Posted on the NASA research opportunity homepage at: http://nspires.nasaprs.com/ and on the RSS feed at: http://nasascience.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/grant-solicitations/ roses-2016. Questions concerning this program element may be directed to Louis Kaluzienski at louis.j.kaluzienski@nasa.gov. 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 [NASA] CONCEPTS FOR OCEAN WORLDS LIFE DETECTION TECHNOLOGY (COLDTECH) The Concepts for Ocean worlds Life Detection Technology (COLDTech) Program supports the development of spacecraft-based instruments and technology for surface and subsurface exploration of ocean worlds such as Europa, Enceladus, and Titan. Specifically, COLDTech seeks to a) develop and advance the maturity of science instruments, especially those focused on the detection of evidence of life, especially extant life, in the ocean worlds of the outer Solar System (e.g., Enceladus, Europa, and Titan); b) sample acquisition, delivery and analysis systems for such missions, and c) spacecraft technologies required to access the oceans. Mandatory Step-1 proposals are due by June 17, 2016, and Step-2 proposals are due by August 12, 2016. The full announcement (NNH16ZDA001N) may be found at: http://nspires.nasaprs.com/ and will appear on the RSS feed at: http://nasascience.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/grant-solicitations/ roses-2016. Questions concerning this program element may be directed to Curt Niebur at curt.niebur@nasa.gov. [Edited for length.] 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 28TH EDITION OF THE IAC WINTER SCHOOL: SOLAR SYSTEM EXPLORATION This year the XXVIII Edition of the Winter School of Astrophysics, organized by the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, is focused on the exploration of the Solar System. The school will be held in the UNESCO word heritage city of San Cristobal de La Laguna, in Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain) in November, 7-16, 2016. The school in intended for post-graduate students in Astrophysics completing their PhD, and also to young postdocs. It is limited to 50 participants, and will provide several advanced courses in specific topics like planetary space missions, asteroids, comets, origin and evolution of the Solar System and a small workshop on planetary data archiving and image processing. For more details visit our website: http://www.iac.es/winterschool/2016/ 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 MAVEN SCIENCE TEAM MEETING The next MAVEN science-team meeting will be held on the Boston University campus on 14-17 June. The meeting is open to non-team members as long as (i) they are actively working with MAVEN data, and (ii) they receive advance approval. To request approval or for more information, contact the MAVEN P.I., Bruce Jakosky, at bruce.jakosky@lasp.colorado.edu. No on-site walk-ups will be allowed. 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 88TH GSI CONGRESS ABSTRACT DEADLINE POSTPONED The deadline for the submission of planetary, geological, and volcanological abstracts to the 88 GSI Congress, which will take place in Naples on 7-9 September 2016, is postponed to 30 May 2016. The deadline for the registration to the excursions, including Vesuvius and Campi Flegrei, is 15 June 2016. You will find all the details both in Italian and English here: http://www.sginapoli2016.it/home/ 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 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - SOCET SET TRAINING OPPORTUNITY The Planetary Photogrammetry Guest Facility at the Astrogeology Science Center of the U.S. Geological Survey would like to announce its Call for Participation for a training opportunity on July 25-27, 2016. This training will cover photogrammetric processing of planetary stereo imagery using USGS Integrated Software for Imagers and Spectrometers and SOCET SET software developed by BAE Systems. The training is FREE to participants, and will cover end-to-end, hands-on photogrammetric procedures for surface extraction (i.e., digital elevation model generation) from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE image pairs. For additional information and application instructions, please see http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/facilities/photogrammetry-guest-facility. For information about a USGS Integrated Software for Imagers and Spectrometers Hands-on Workshop being held July 28-29, 2016 - also hosted by the Astrogeology Science Center, please see: https://isis.astrogeology.usgs.gov/fixit/projects/isis/news Interested individuals can attended both the SOCET SET and the USGS Integrated Software for Imagers and Spectrometers workshops. 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 PLANETARY MEETING CALENDAR ADDITIONS September 13-16, 2016 Multiple Faces of Interstellar Dust http://wwwmpa.mpa-garching.mpg.de/~lana/DUST2016/ Garching, Germany October 27-28, 2016 SMA science in the Next Decade http://events.asiaa.sinica.edu.tw/workshop/20161027/ Taipei, Taiwan November 7-16, 2016 XXVIII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics http://www.iac.es/winterschool/2016/ La Laguna, Spain May 29-June 23, 2017 Protoplanetary Disks and Planet Formation and Evolution http://www.munich-iapp.de/scientific-programme/programmes-2017/ protoplanetary-disks/ Garching, Germany [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.php, 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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