PLANETARY EXPLORATION NEWSLETTER Volume 11, Number 32 (July 30, 2017) PEN Website: http://planetarynews.org Editor: Karen R. Stockstill-Cahill Co-Editors: Mark V. Sykes, Elisabeth Adams Email: pen_editor at psi.edu o-------------------------TABLE OF CONTENTS---------------------------o 1. Future Kuiper Belt Missions Community Group Sign-up 2. AGU Session 22722: Linking Sediment Transport and Geophysical Flows to Planetary Surface Evolution (EP027) 3. [NASA] PDS Rosetta Data Release by the Small Bodies Node 4. Astrobiology 2017 5. VEXAG Meeting #15 Call for Presentations and Registration 6. Venus Exploration Analysis Group (VEXAG) Call for Steering Committee Members 7. Mars Exploration Science Monthly Newsletter for July 2017 8. 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 FUTURE KUIPER BELT MISSIONS COMMUNITY GROUP SIGN-UP If you are interested in joining a community group to study and support future NASA missions to explore objects in the Kuiper Belt, including as one possibility a potential return to Pluto, please fill out the web-form here: http://bit.ly/F_KBO_list Sincerely, Jason Hofgartner, Renu Malhotra, Bill McKinnon, Cathy Olkin, Silvia Protopapa, Kelsi Singer, Alan Stern, and Mark Sykes 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 SESSION 22722: LINKING SEDIMENT TRANSPORT AND GEOPHYSICAL FLOWS TO PLANETARY SURFACE EVOLUTION (EP027) https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session22722 Invited speakers: Tim Goudge (University of Texas at Austin) and Mackenzie Day (University of Texas at Austin) Description: Planetary missions over the past decade have revealed that while planetary bodies across the solar system differ greatly in surface conditions, their landscapes share 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 on such 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 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 who are working to understand how such surface processes behave in places with vastly different conditions and constraints from our own. Regards, Alexander Morgan (University of Virginia/Smithsonian Institution) Marisa Palucis (Dartmouth) Orkan Umurhan (NASA Ames Research Center) 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 [NASA] PDS - ROSETTA DATA RELEASE BY THE SMALL BODIES NODE Small Bodies Node of the NASA Planetary Data System is pleased to announce that the following Rosetta data for the mission instruments have been released: In Peer Review: Shape Models of Comet 67P/C-G v2.0 In lien resolution: VIRTIS Escort 3 and 4 67P Raw Data MIDAS Escort 4 and Extension 1-3 67P Calibrated Data MIRO Escort 4 and Extension 1-3 67P Raw/Calibrated Data COSIMA In-Flight and 67P Data through January 2016 ESA PSA certified: VIRTIS Prelanding MTP004-MTP009 67P Calibrated Data RPCMIP Prelanding 1-3 and Escort 1-4 67P Calibrated Data NASA PDS certified (locally archived): ALICE Prelanding, Escort 1-4 and Extension 1-3 67P Raw/Calibrated/Resampled Data GIADA Escort 1-2 and Extension 3 67P Raw/Calibrated Data Lander ROLIS Post Hibernation Commissioning Raw Data, Separation Descent Landing 67P Raw/Calibrated Data, First Science Sequence 67P Raw Data The data as well as mission and instrument information, are available at: http://pdssbn.astro.umd.edu/ 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 ASTROBIOLOGY 2017 This conference will take place in the beautiful Chilean Patagonia in Coyhaique (November 26 - December 1, 2017). For updated information and to pre-register, please see: http://www.astrobiology2017.org The oral contribution submission deadline has been extended to Friday, August 4, 2017. Please note that a link to the abstract submission form is sent to you after the registration process is completed. The SOC will select oral papers after their review. The notification of acceptance is expected to be sent out on August 25, 2017. For those that wish to present a poster at Astrobiology 2017, the deadline coincides with the end of the regular registration period, October 13. The submission process is the same as for oral contributions, and the selected posters are expected to be announced a couple of weeks after the deadline. There are only 21 available seats left at the Training School. Register soon to secure yours. The two-day training school with lectures on basics of Astrobiology will take place in Santiago during the Friday-Saturday preceding the conference (November 24-25), and it is open to early-career participants. For more information on the training school, including the program, please click: http://astrobiology2017.org/training-school/ With best regards, Patricio Rojo (LOC's chair) [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 VEXAG MEETING #15 CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS AND REGISTRATION Venus Exploration Analysis Group (VEXAG) Meeting #15 will be held on Tuesday-Thursday, November 14-16, 2016 at the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), Laurel Maryland, hosted by Noam Izenberg. Current plans are: November 14, 2017 (Tuesday) - NASA and Mission Reports November 15, 2017 (Wednesday) - Venus Science and Technology Reports November 16, 2017 (Thursday) - VEXAG Activities and Future Meetings (adjourn at mid-day). Abstracts are solicited for all topics related to Venus science, applicable technologies, modeling techniques and the study of Venus-like exoplanets. Please submit a one-page abstract in LPSC format for your oral or poster presentation to the LPI Portal for this meeting: https://www.hou.usra.edu/meeting_portal/abstract_submission/?mtg=569 by September 14, 2017 at 5:00 p.m. U.S. Central Daylight Saving Time (GMT-5). Posting of the full program is anticipated in October. If you are attending in person or via Web-EX and haven't done so already, please enter your name on the Meeting Registration/Intent to Attend Form on the VEXAG Web-Site: https://www.hou.usra.edu/meeting_portal/registration/?mtg=vexag2017 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 VENUS EXPLORATION ANALYSIS GROUP (VEXAG) CALL FOR STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS VEXAG is seeking a volunteer for VEXAG Steering Committee members to replace those who have successfully completed their service to the community. This new member will start late this year, commencing with the next VEXAG Meeting at APL on November 14-16, 2017. The term will run for three years. Also, the VEXAG Early Career Scholars Focus Group is looking for interested group members. If you are interested, send your resume and a statement of how you could contribute to VEXAG to Bob Grimm and Martha Gilmore, VEXAG Chair and Deputy Chair (grimm@boulder.swri.edu, mgilmore@wesleyan.edu) by August 25, 2017. VEXAG activities for the next three years are expected to be community building with an emphasis on: Preparing for the next Planetary Science Decadal Survey Venus Exploration Goals, Objectives, and Strategies Technology Development and Laboratory Measurements International Collaboration Early Career and Young Scholar Development VEXAG (http://www.lpi.usra.edu/vexag/) is a community-based forum established in July 2005 to assess scientific priorities and strategies for exploration of Venus. VEXAG is currently composed of a chair and five Focus Groups, where the Focus Groups actively solicit input from the Venus community on the topics listed above. 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 MARS EXPLORATION SCIENCE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER FOR JULY 2017 To the Mars Community, On behalf of Jeff Johnson (MEPAG Chair), Dave Beaty, Rich Zurek, and James Ashley of the Mars Program Science Office. As before, the newsletter can also be found on the web at: http://mepag.jpl.nasa.gov Please send your Mars community announcements and calendar items for inclusion in the newsletter to Barbara at: Barbara.A.Saltzberg@jpl.nasa.gov 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 PLANETARY MEETING CALENDAR ADDITIONS June 5-7, 2018 Cryovolcanism in the Solar System Workshop https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/cryovolcanism2018/ Houston, TX [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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