PLANETARY EXPLORATION NEWSLETTER
Volume 11, Number 33 (August 6, 2017)

PEN Website: http://planetarynews.org
Editor: Karen R. Stockstill-Cahill 
Co-Editors: Mark V. Sykes, Elisabeth Adams
Email: pen_editor at psi.edu

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1. Planetary Geomorphology 'Image of the Month'
2. [NASA] Mars Science Laboratory Release 15
3. Planetary Meeting Calendar Additions

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PLANETARY GEOMORPHOLOGY 'IMAGE OF THE MONTH'

The August image of the month is now available at the IAG's Planetary
Geomorphology web page: 

http://planetarygeomorphology.wordpress.com/

This month's topic is "Global stereo topography of Jupiter's moon Io".
Contributed by Oliver White, at SETI (Search for Extraterrestial
Intelligence Institute), USA.

You can 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)


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[NASA] MARS SCIENCE LABORATORY RELEASE 15

The NASA Planetary Data System announces the fifteenth release of data
from the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission, covering data acquired
from Sol 1515 through Sol 1648 (November 9, 2016, to March 26, 2017).

This release consists of raw and derived data sets from the following
instruments:

APXS
ChemCam
CheMin
DAN
Hazcam
MAHLI
MARDI
Mastcam
Navcam
PLACES
RAD
REMS
SAM
SPICE

To access the above data for this release:

https://pds.nasa.gov/tools/subscription_service/SS-20170801.shtml

Links to all MSL data sets may be found on the PDS Geosciences Node web
site: 

http://pds-geosciences.wustl.edu/missions/msl/

The data may also be reached from the main PDS home page: 

https://pds.nasa.gov/

MSL data are archived at the PDS Atmospheres, Planetary Plasma
Interactions (PPI), Geosciences, Imaging, and Navigation and Ancillary
Information Facility (NAIF) Nodes.

PDS offers two services for searching the MSL archives:
The Planetary Image Atlas at the Imaging Node allows selection of MSL
image data by specific search criteria.

http://pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/search/

The MSL Analyst's Notebook at the Geosciences Node allows searching and
downloading of all MSL data in the context of mission events.

http://an.rsl.wustl.edu/msl

The PDS Team

Mailto: pds_operator@jpl.nasa.gov
Phone: (818) 393-7165


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PLANETARY MEETING CALENDAR ADDITIONS

November 13-17, 2017
Astronomical Heritage of the Middle East
http://heritage.aras.am
Yerevan, Armenia

[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.]


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