PLANETARY EXPLORATION NEWSLETTER Volume 10, Number 32 (July 31, 2016) PEN Website: http://planetarynews.org Editor: Mark V. Sykes Co-Editors: Karen Stockstill-Cahill, Susan Benecchi Email: pen_editor at psi.edu o-------------------------TABLE OF CONTENTS---------------------------o 1. AGU 2016 Session P004: Cometary Processes in the Light of Rosetta 2. AGU 2016 Session P005: Cracking Up - Ice-Ocean Dynamics on Earth and Ocean Worlds 3. AGU 2016 Session P030: The Early Mars Envoronment - Warm and Wet, Cold and Wet, or Cold and Icy? 4. AGU 2016 Session P032: The Science of Exploration as Enabled by the Moon, Near Earth Asteroids and the Moons of Mars 5. AGU 2016 Session 12855: Radar Investigations of Planetary Surfaces and Subsurfaces 6. AGU 2016 SESSION EP024: Linking Sediment Transport and Geophysical Flows to Planetary Surface Evolution 7. [NASA] Change to ROSES C.1 Planetary Science Overview 8. Postdoctoral Positions: Reaction Dynamics & Planetary Sciences 9. PhD Position: European Training Network EuroPAH 10. First Information Circular for MEPAG Meeting 32 11. Latest Discovery/New Frontiers Newsletter Now Online 12. 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 AGU 2016 SESSION P004: COMETARY PROCESSES IN THE LIGHT OF ROSETTA Conveners: Bonnie Buratti, Mathieu Choukroun, Matt Taylor, and Nicolas Altobelli The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft will make an unprecedented controlled crash onto comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in late September 2016, providing close scrutiny of the comet until the very end. This session will focus on scientific results from this final stage of Rosetta's life. The session will also include correlative studies among instruments from all phases of the mission; studies that incorporate ground-based observations for better temporal coverage and perspective; theoretical modeling of cometary processes; and interrelationships among comets and other small bodies. AGU abstracts are due no later than 3 August. 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 AGU 2016 SESSION P006: CRACKING UP - ICE-OCEAN DYNAMICS ON EARTH AND OCEAN WORLDS Reminder! Our AGU 2016 session aims to host a fruitful discussion of ice-ocean dynamics on Earth and around the solar system. We seek a wide range of terrestrial glaciology/oceanography and planetary research to foster the Earth-planetary connection. Ice-fluid interactions are major contributors to the dynamic and often unpredictable processes observed across many "ocean worlds," including on Earth and the floating shells of distant icy satellites. However, our understanding of the physical processes controlling ice-ocean interaction remains limited, even on Earth. Bringing together Earth and planetary studies of ice-fluid interaction is the aim of this session, which invites abstracts focused on dynamic phenomena that arise in ices due to ice-fluid interactions. This session is open to contributions regarding sea ice, glaciers and ice shelves, icy satellites, Pluto, and beyond. Invited speakers: Kelly Brunt (UMD/NASA) and Ted Scambos (NSIDC) More info can be found here: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session13931 Submit by 3 August (that's next Wednesday), and see you at AGU! Catherine Walker (JPL), Britney Schmidt (Georgia Tech), Justin Burton (Emory U.), and Pierre Dutrieux (APL-UW) 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 2016 SESSION P030: THE EARLY MARS ENVIRONMENT - WARM AND WET, COLD AND WET, OR COLD AND ICY? We invite contributions from climate modeling, geomorphology, geochemistry and mineralogy that address the question of whether early Mars climate was "warm and wet", "cold and wet" or "cold and icy". This session will focus on both sharing new results from different perspectives and fostering communication among the community. For more information, visit: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session13359 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 AGU 2016 SESSION P032: THE SCIENCE OF EXPLORATION AS ENABLED BY THE MOON, NEAR EARTH ASTEROIDS AND THE MOONS OF MARS Please consider submitting your abstracts to the following SSERVI-sponsored AGU Session on lunar/NEO/Phobos/Deimos research. Abstracts from the entire community, especially next-gen researchers, are encouraged. Abstract deadline is August 3rd, 11:59p EDT. AGU Fall 2016 Session: P032. The Science of Exploration as enabled by the Moon, Near Earth Asteroids and the moons of Mars. A close collaboration between science, technology and exploration will enable deeper understanding of the Moon and other airless bodies as we move further out of low-Earth orbit. The Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI) session 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. Graduate students and early career researchers are particularly encouraged to submit for oral presentations. 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 2016 SESSION 12855: RADAR INVESTIGATIONS OF PLANETARY SURFACES AND SUBSURFACES We are pleased to announce a new session at the 2016 AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, CA, December 12-16. Session description: proposed and existing radar instruments are enabling an unprecedented range of radio geophysical observations of the surfaces and subsurfaces of solar system bodies. This has spurred the development and application of new instrumentation, processing, modeling, analysis, and interpretation approaches to planetary radar science and engineering. We invite abstracts on any topic involving the use of radar data to understand planetary bodies. These may describe (but are not limited to) new results from existing radar observations, the development and application of new observation or data processing techniques, numerical modeling of existing or future observations, and/or the analysis of airborne or orbital radar data from terrestrial analog studies for solar system observation. Please consider submitting an abstract for this session. For more information, visit: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session12855 The submission deadline is August 3, 2016. Conveners: Wes Patterson (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory) Dustin Schroeder (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Lynn Carter (Goddard Space Flight Center) Cyril Grima (University of Texas at Austin) 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 2016 SESSION EP024: LINKING SEDIMENT TRANSPORT AND GEOPHYSICAL FLOWS TO PLANETARY SURFACE EVOLUTION Session ID: 13536 Invited Speakers: Edwin Kite (University of Chicago) and Tjalling de Haas (Utrecht University) Planetary missions over the past decade have revealed that while planetary bodies across the solar system differ greatly in surface conditions, their landscapes share some striking similarities to those on Earth. Understanding the feedbacks between how geophysical flows and sediment transport processes affect landscape evolution is necessary for constraining the current and past climatic conditions of planetary surfaces. We invite contributions from research exploring these interplays using remote sensing data from surface or orbital missions, numerical modeling, laboratory experiments, Earth analog studies, or some combination thereof. We expect that a joint session between the Planetary Sciences Section and the Earth and Planetary Surface Processes Focus Group will foster collaborations between those working to understand how geophysical flows and sediment fluxes modify our own planet's surface under changing climates and those working to understand how surface processes behave in places with vastly different conditions and constraints from our own. Alexander Morgan, University of Virginia Marisa Palucis, California Institute of Technology Orkan Umurhan, NASA Ames Research Center [Edited for length] 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 [NASA] CHANGE TO ROSES C.1 PLANETARY SCIENCE OVERVIEW The last paragraph of Section 3.5.2 of the Planetary Science Research Program Overview has been changed to require Proposers intending to archive data or products in the PDS to provide a letter of support from the appropriate Discipline Node indicating that the PDS is willing to accept the data submission. New text is bold and deleted text is struck through. This change applies to proposals with Step-2 due dates after August 31, 2016. 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 POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS: REACTION DYNAMICS & PLANETARY SCIENCES University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA The Reaction Dynamics Group, Department of Chemistry, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, invites applications for two postdoctoral positions. The appointment period is initially for one year, renewable annually based on availability of funds and satisfactory progress. Salary is competitive, commensurate with experience. Applicants should have a strong background in experimental reaction dynamics, UHV tech­nology, REMPI, and pulsed laser systems. The goal of the experiments is to probe the formation of water and hydroxyl radicals on the Moon via interaction of ionizing radiation (Solar Wind) with lunar (analog) silicates. Solid communication skills in English (written, oral), a publication record in internationally circulated, peer-reviewed journals, and willingness to work in a team are mandatory. Only self-motivated and energetic candidates are encouraged to apply. Please send a letter of interest, three letters of recommendation, CV, and publication list to Prof. Ralf I. Kaiser, Department of Chemistry, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822-2275, USA [ralfk@hawaii.edu]. The review of applications will start August 1, 2016, and continues until the position is filled. A description of our current research group can be found at: http://www.chem.hawaii.edu/Bil301/welcome.html [Edited for length] 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 PHD POSITION: EUROPEAN TRAINING NETWORK EUROPAH A PhD position is available at Astronomy, Leiden University, under supervision of Prof. Tielens, in close collaboration with drs. ten Kate and King of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University. Carbonaceous meteorites and comets show a varied organic composition thought to reflect, at least partly, a heritage that dates back to interstellar clouds. A variety of processes on parent asteroidal bodies and comets will have modified any inherited material. PAHs are one key component in the interstellar medium. The student will develop models for the chemical evolution of PAHs in an aqueous environment and the photochemical evolution of ices. S/he will identify chemical markers for these processes, make predictions for ALMA and JWST observations, and assess the astronomical implications by comparison to meteoritic and cometary composition. Secondments are foreseen to Heriot Watt University, Aarhus University, and Graphic Science. The Ideal Candidate has the equivalent of a master's degree in organic chemistry, physical chemistry, astronomy, Earth sciences, or physics; experimental and computational experience preferably in: Raman and IR spectroscopy, density functional theory; a good working knowledge in English. Certain restrictions on nationality apply related to mobility requirements from the Marie Curie Program. PhD information: http://europah.eu/Recruitment/esr%20position%204.html Network: http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/science/jobs/586193-early-stage -researchers-in-the-europah-astrochemistry-eu-network 10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10 FIRST INFORMATION CIRCULAR FOR MEPAG MEETING 32 October 6, 2016 Virtual Meeting You are cordially invited to participate in the 32nd meeting of the Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group (MEPAG), scheduled as a virtual meeting on October 6th, 2016, 8:30am-12:30pm PDT. The agenda and Adobe Connect information will soon follow, and will be posted on the MEPAG meeting website: http://mepag.nasa.gov/meetings.cfm?expand=m32 Meeting presentations are expected to include reports from recent Mars-focused conferences and updates from the NASA Mars Exploration Program about mission status, including studies for future Mars missions. Additionally, recent and upcoming MEPAG activities and studies will be discussed, including the next face-to-face MEPAG meeting (No. 33) next Spring. The meeting is open to all members of the Mars science community including our international colleagues. If you have a suggestion for the agenda or a question about the meeting, please email mepagmeetingqs@jpl.nasa.gov. I look forward to your participation. Sincerely, Dr. Jeffrey R. Johnson MEPAG Chair 11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11 LATEST DISCOVERY/NEW FRONTIERS NEWSLETTER NOW ONLINE The July 2016 issue of the Discovery and New Frontiers News, the newsletter of NASA's Discovery and New Frontiers Programs, is on the website at: http://discovery.nasa.gov/newsletter/newsletter.cfml - New Horizons continues to return fantastic images from the Pluto system as it heads deeper into the Kuiper Belt for an extended mission recently approved by NASA - Juno provided extra 4th of July excitement as it went into orbit around Jupiter - Dawn continues orbiting Ceres and revealing the secrets of her bright spots - OSIRIS-REx, NASA's first asteroid sample return mission, is preparing for launch in September - Data from the MESSENGER mission's historic four-year exploration of Mercury is available at NASA's Planetary Data System - InSight has implemented a new design of the seismometer, a new launch window will open in May 2018 12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12 PLANETARY MEETING CALENDAR ADDITIONS March 20-24, 2017 Science with the Hubble and James Webb Telescopes V http://www.stsci.edu/institute/conference/hst5 Venice, Italy June 17-18, 2016 Origins of Solar Systems https://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?id=17506 South Hadley, MA [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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