PLANETARY EXPLORATION NEWSLETTER Volume 11, Number 10 (March 5, 2017) PEN Website: http://planetarynews.org Editor: Karen R. Stockstill-Cahill Co-Editors: Elisabeth Adams, Mark V. Sykes, Susan Benecchi Email: pen_editor at psi.edu o-------------------------TABLE OF CONTENTS---------------------------o 1. Third COSPAR Symposium Abstract Deadline 2. NASA Astrobiology Institute CAN 8 Released 3. PSS Special Issue Invitation 4. Planetary Science Advisory Committee Nominations 5. Planetary Geomorphology 'Image of the Month' 6. First IUGG Symposium on Planetary Science 7. ICPAE Symposium on Comparative Planetary Atmospheres Within and Beyond the Solar System 8. 12th Low-Cost Planetary Missions Conference 9. 2017B NASA IRTF Call for Proposals 10. Venus Town Hall Meeting and Early Career Scholars Mixer at LPSC 11. JMARS Showcase at LPSC 12. Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Data Release 40 13. Release of OSIRIS-REx Participating Scientist Program Element Draft Text for Community Comment 14. Mars Student Travel Grants Available for 5th Planetary Dunes Workshop 15. Humans to Mars Summit 16. Summer School "Impacts and their Role in the Evolution of Life" 17. EPSC 2017 Session TP8.1: Mars’ Upper Atmosphere Interaction with Comet C/2013 A1 (Siding-Spring) 18. Reminder: IAVCEI Session I.1 Planetary Volcanology 19. 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 THIRD COSPAR SYMPOSIUM ABSTRACT DEADLINE The abstract deadline for the 2017 COSPAR Symposium is 31 March. 3rd COSPAR Symposium, "Small Satellites for Space Research" http://www.cospar2017.org/ September 18-22, 2017 Jeju Island, South Korea 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 ASTROBIOLOGY INSTITUTE CAN 8 RELEASED The NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI) Cooperative Agreement Notice (CAN) Cycle 8 has been released. Step-1 Proposals are due April 12, 2017, and Step-2 Proposals are due July 6, 2017. A preproposal conference will be held on March 10, 2017, at 11 AM Pacific Time (2 PM Eastern Time). Information about the preproposal conference will be posted at: https://nai.nasa.gov/funding/can-8/ The full text of the CAN may be downloaded from the NSPIRES page for NAI CAN Cycle 8. 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 PSS SPECIAL ISSUE INVITATION Dust, Atmosphere, and Plasma Environment of the Moon and Small Bodies The DAP-2017 workshop was held in Boulder on January 11th-13th. It was focused on the open science questions, the status and future of our supporting modeling and laboratory experimental capabilities, and the definition of the required measurements and instrument capabilities for future investigations from orbit or landed missions. The DAP-2017 presentations are available online: http://impact.colorado.edu/dap_meeting.html Contributions to the earlier LDAP-2010 and DAP-2012 meetings were published in special issues of Planetary and Space Sciences. Go to: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00320633/59/14 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00320633/89 A similar volume is planned to report the contributions to DAP-2017. In addition to the meeting participants, we are soliciting contributed papers from the larger lunar, planetary, and space science communities that are relevant to the topics discussed during the DAP-2017 meeting. The online access in Planetary and Space Sciences will open April 1, and the deadline for submitting a paper to this special issue is June 30, 2017. The editors: Mihaly Horanyi and Alan Stern 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 ADVISORY COMMITTEE NOMINATIONS NASA's Planetary Science Division (PSD) is extending the invitation for nominations for service on the Planetary Science Advisory Committee (PAC). https://science.nasa.gov/nac/science-advisory-committees/pac Interested member of the community are invited to review the charter and to submit self-nominations for consideration to fill intermittent vacancies on the committees. Self-nomination packages from interested U.S. citizens must be sent to NASA as an email and must include the name of the Planetary Science Advisory Committee. The deadline for NASA receipt of all public nominations is March 31, 2017. The following information is required to be included as part of each self-nomination package: (1) a cover email including the name and full mailing and email addresses of nominee; (2) a professional resume (one-page maximum, included as an attachment); and, (3) a professional biography (one-page maximum; included as an attachment) Please submit the nomination as a single package electronically to the PAC email (pac-execsec@hq.nasa.gov). Paper-based documents sent through postal mail (hard-copies) will not be accepted. Self-nomination packages that do not include the three (3) mandatory elements listed above will not receive further consideration by NASA. James. L. Green Director, Planetary Science Division Jonathan A. R. Rall Director, Planetary Science Research and Analysis [Edited for length.] 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 GEOMORPHOLOGY 'IMAGE OF THE MONTH' The March 'Image of the Month' is now available at the IAG's Planetary Geomorphology web page: http://planetarygeomorphology.wordpress.com/ This month's topic is "Seismo-tectonic geomorphology of the Moon: Lobate scarps and boulder falls". Contributed by P. Senthil Kumar, CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, India. You can now follow IAG Planetary Geomorphology Image of the Month on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/PlanetaryGeomorphology or Twitter @PlanetGeomorpho. Susan Conway (Chair, IAG Planetary Geomorphology working group) 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 FIRST IUGG SYMPOSIUM ON PLANETARY SCIENCE Planetary science is an interdisciplinary field across IUGG disciplines as well as geology, geochemistry, and astrobiology. The First IUGG Symposium on Planetary Science (IUGG-PS2017) "Interdisciplinary observation and understanding of the Solar System" will be held on 3-5 July 2017 in Berlin, Germany. The symposium aims to bring together international scientists and engineers focused on interdisciplinary work related to exploration and science of the solar system and seeking life beyond Earth. Topics include planetary geodesy, remote sensing, atmosphere, ionosphere/plasma physics, magnetic and gravity field, geomorphology, geophysics, geodynamics, geology, petrology, volcanology, geochemistry, interior physics, and life & astrobiology. More information will be available at: http://www.dlr.de/iugg-ps2017 All of the IUGG community is welcome to attend the IUGG-PS2017. 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 ICPAE SYMPOSIUM ON COMPARATIVE PLANETARY ATMOSPHERES WITHIN AND BEYOND THE SOLAR SYSTEM Abstract submission for the IAPSO-IAMAS-IAGA 2017 Joint Assembly is now open. The abstract submission deadline is Sunday 12th March. http://www.iapso-iamas-iaga2017.com/index.php The IAMAS Session M13 - Comparative Planetary Atmospheres within and beyond the Solar System You are also invited to participate in: The IAGA-IAMAS Joint Session JA 1 - Space weather throughout the solar system: bringing data and models together Please visit the Assembly's website for more information: http://www.iapso-iamas-iaga2017.com/index.php/2016-05-15-22-51-06/ scientific-programme-2/iamas-sessions/88-m13-comparative-planetary- atmospheres-within-and-beyond-the-solar-system 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 12TH LOW-COST PLANETARY MISSIONS CONFERENCE August 15-17, 2017, Caltech, Pasadena, CA The focus of LCPM-12 is on small and/or low-cost planetary missions, on the scale of the NASA Discovery/ESA Cosmic Vision Small (S) Class and smaller, including Smallsats and CubeSats. The conference is intended to be an opportunity for scientists, technologists, engineers and project and agency managers to exchange ideas and information to enhance the viability and science return of low-cost robotic missions. Abstract Submission and Conference Registration will open on March 20th, 2017 For further information about registration, abstract submission and conference logistics, visit: www.lcpm12.org Michael Mischna, Chair SOC, on behalf of the Science Organizing Committee 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 2017B NASA IRTF CALL FOR PROPOSALS NASA Infrared Telescope Facility Observing Proposals. The due date for the 2017B semester (August 1, 2017 to January 31, 2018) is Monday, April 3, 2017. See our online submission form. Information on available facility and visitor instruments and performance can be found at: http://irtfweb.ifa.hawaii.edu/Facility Observing on-site or remote observing is available with SpeX, MORIS, and iSHELL; please see the instrument pages for more information, including the exposure time calculators for SpeX and iSHELL. The full text of the call can be found at: http://irtfweb.ifa.hawaii.edu/observing/callForProposals.php 10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10 VENUS TOWN HALL MEETING AND EARLY CAREER SCHOLARS MIXER AT LPSC Venus Exploration Analysis Group (VEXAG) invites you to participate in a lunchtime Venus Town Hall Meeting and an evening Early Career Scholars Mixer at LPSC on Thursday, March 23, 2017. The objective of this Venus Town Hall meeting in Waterways Meeting Rooms 1-3 is to encourage a community discussion and receive feedback on the current Venus community activities. Agenda items will include an update on NASA Planetary Science Division activities. Also, please, join the VEXAG Early Career Scholars Focus Group for an informal meet and greet at the Acqua Lounge before the Venus poster Session on Thursday night. Please check the VEXAG - Early Career Scholars Facebook page for more information: https://www.facebook.com/groups/432478660134856/ This will be dutch treat as drinks are not included. 11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11 JMARS SHOWCASE at LPSC The Java Mission-planning and Analysis for Remote Sensing (JMARS) team will present a series of short presentations on how specific science - including landing site analysis - can be done on planets, moons, and small bodies. The goal of these presentations will be to showcase how to use JMARS to discover available datasets, filter them to refine relevance, and fuse them with one another in order to evaluate research hypotheses and produce publication-quality results. Wednesday, 12:00 to 1:15 PM, Indian Springs meeting room http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2017/events/highlighted/?date=2017 -03-22 12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12 MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER DATA RELEASE 40 The Planetary Data System (PDS) is pleased to announce a new delivery of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) data for the following instruments: CRISM CTX HiRISE MARCI MCS RSS SHARAD SPICE In general, MRO Release 40 includes data collected from May 9, 2016, to August 8, 2016. This release of SHARAD Radargram data, processed by the U.S. members of the SHARAD team, is delivered as part of MRO Release 39. The release includes data acquired from February 8, 2016, through May 11, 2016. Even though this is Release 39 of the SHARAD Radargram data, it was processed late and is being delivered at the same time as Release 40 of other MRO data sets. The radargram data that is planned for Release 40 will be delivered later. To access the above data: https://pds.nasa.gov/tools/subscription_service/SS-20170301.shtml To access the latest PDS Data Releases: https://pds.nasa.gov/tools/subscription_service/SS-Release.shtml All available PDS data may be found at: https://pds.nasa.gov/tools/data-search/ For further information, see the PDS Home Page: https://pds.nasa.gov/ The PDS Team pds_operator@jpl.nasa.gov (818) 393-7165 13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13 RELEASE OF OSIRIS-REX PARTICIPATING SCIENTIST PROGRAM ELEMENT DRAFT TEXT FOR COMMUNITY COMMENT The objective of the OSIRIS-REx Participating Scientist Program (OREx-PSP) is to enhance the scientific return during the asteroid-operational phase of the OSIRIS-REx mission by expanding participation in the mission through new investigations that broaden and/or complement existing principal investigator (PI) and co-investigator (Co-I)-led investigations. This amendment releases a draft version of C.22, the OSIRIS-REx participating scientist program element for community comment. Questions and comments on this draft program element should be directed to Jeffrey Grossman at jgrossman@nasa.gov and Christina Richey at christina.r.richey@nasa.gov by March 16, 2017. On or about March 2, 2017, this Amendment to the NASA Research Announcement "Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) 2017" (NNH17ZDA001N) will be posted on the NASA research opportunity homepage at: http://nspires.nasaprs.com/ and will appear on the RSS feed at: https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/grant-solicitations/roses- 2017/ [Edited for length.] 14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14 MARS STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS AVAILABLE FOR 5TH PLANETARY DUNES WORKSHOP The Mars Program Office will support travel of up to three US (citizens or LPRs) undergraduates or graduate students presenting on Mars-relevant research at the Fifth International Planetary Dunes Workshop: From the Bottom of the Oceans to the Outer Limits of the Solar System. This meeting will be held May 16-19, 2017, at Dixie State University, St. George, Utah, USA: http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/dunes2017/travel-grants/. The student travel application is available at: http://mepag.jpl.nasa.gov/student.cfm?expand=student and will be due the same date as the abstract deadline: March 7. 15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15 HUMANS TO MARS SUMMIT Register today for the 2017 Humans to Mars Summit Join us at the Humans to Mars Summit (H2M) that will be held from May 9-11, 2017 at The George Washington University in Washington, DC. Register at: http://H2M.ExploreMars.org H2M is an annual Mars exploration conference that addresses the major technical, scientific, and policy challenges that need to be overcome in order to send humans to Mars by the 2030s. It is the most comprehensive conference in the world focused on landing humans on Mars, and the 2017 H2M is shaping up to be the biggest H2M yet. Confirmed and tentative speakers already include William Gerstenmaier, Penny Boston, Thomas Zurbuchen, Clementine Poidatz (National Geographic Series, Mars), Buzz Aldrin, John Grunsfeld, James Green, Janet Ivey (Janet's Planet), Stephen Jurczyk, Leonard David, Joe Cassady (Aerojet Rocketdyne), Talal Kaissi (UAE), Ann Merchant (Science and Entertainment Exchange), and many others... Register today at: http://h2m.exploremars.org 16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16 SUMMER SCHOOL "IMPACTS AND THEIR ROLE IN THE EVOLUTION OF LIFE" Saaremaa, Estonia 25 July - 3 August This school will give attendees a thorough introduction into impacts, impactors, and the role of impacts in the evolution of life. Apart from lectures, poster presentations, student-led discussions and excursions to geologically interesting sites several practical exercises including search for meteorite fragments, microscopy of pollen in order to assess the ecological consequences of impacts, petrographic microscopy of impactites, electrometric and georadar mapping of impact sites, excavation into the boundary layer between the ejecta blanket and the glacial till as well as excursions to other geologically interesting sites are planned. The website for the summer school can be found under: http://www.nordicastrobiology.net/Impacts2017 Deadline for applications in the 30th April 2017. Please forward this announcement possibly interested students and early career scientists. Bursaries are available for students and scientists from the Universities of Tartu, Turku, Tallinn, Vilnius, Porto, Utrecht, Bordeaux, Iceland, Stockholm and the Open University. 17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17 EPSC 2017 SESSION TP8.1: MARS’ UPPER ATMOSPHERE INTERACTION WITH COMET C/2013 A1 (SIDING-SPRING) Dear all, We are convening a session at EPSC2017,"Mars’ upper atmosphere interaction with comet C/2013 A1 (Siding-Spring)". On October 19th 2014, Mars experienced a close encounter with Comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring), at a distance of only 141,000 km, or one third the Earth Moon distance. The gaseous coma washed over Mars and Mars passed directly through the cometary debris stream. This unique event enables the scientific community to investigate the response of the Martian atmosphere, as this may have implications for overall atmospheric evolution. The objective of the session is to bring together all the multiple efforts of the scientific community in this specific topic and to encourage people to continue studying the topic in more deepness, as there are plenty of available data currently not being used. All the aspects of the Mars-comet interaction are welcomed. Please find more details on the session here: http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC2017/session/26052 Deadline for abstract submission: May 3rd, 2017. With best wishes, Beatriz Sanchez-Cano, Olivier Witasse, Matteo Crismani, and John Plane 18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18 REMINDER: IAVCEI SESSION I.1 PLANETARY VOLCANOLOGY We invite you to submit an abstract to our Planetary Volcanology session at the IAVCEI 2017 Scientific Assembly in Portland, OR on August 14–18, 2014. Volcanic activity is a hallmark of almost every large solid-surface body in the Solar System. Giant volcanoes dominate the surfaces of Venus, Mars, enormous calderas are abundant on Io, and large igneous provinces are major physiographic features of Mercury and the Moon. Each of these bodies also boasts evidence of pyroclastic activity, and evidence of the interplay of volcanic and tectonic processes is widespread. In the outer Solar System, numerous icy satellites (and a dwarf planet) display evidence indicative of cryovolcanic activity. In this session, we solicit contributions exploring the myriad styles of volcanic landforms and processes on Solar System bodies (planets, moons, or asteroids) using field observations, remotely sensed data, laboratory or numerical simulations, or some combination thereof. Please submit your abstract here: http://iavcei2017.org/abstract.html. The submission deadline is March 17, 2017. Conveners: Paul K. Byrne (NCSU) DelWayne R. Bohnenstiehl (NCSU) Patrick J. McGovern (LPI) Come hang out and talk planetary volcanology in Portland! 19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19 PLANETARY MEETING CALENDAR ADDITIONS Posted at http://planetarynews.org/meetings.html June 4-8, 2017 Laboratory Astrophysics Division Annual Meeting https://lad.aas.org/meetings/2017 Austin, TX June 11-16, 2017 Magnetospheres of the Outer Planets Conference http://www.irfu.se/mop2017/ Uppsala, Sweden August 15-17, 2017 12th Low-Cost Planetary Missions Conference http://lcpm12.org Pasadena, CA September 17-22, 2017 European Planetary Science Congress 2017 http://www.epsc2017.eu Riga, Latvia [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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