PLANETARY EXPLORATION NEWSLETTER Volume 13, Number 14 (March 31, 2019) PEN Website: http://planetarynews.org Editor: Elisabeth Adams Co-Editors: Georgiana Kramer, Mark V. Sykes Email: pen_editor@psi.edu Twitter: @pen2tweets o-------------------------TABLE OF CONTENTS---------------------------o 1. Abstracts for 2019 Planetary Geologic Mappers Meeting Due Apr 4 2. EPSC-DPS Session TP20: Ionospheres of Unmagnetized Bodies in the Solar System and Their Responses to Space Weather Activity - Terrestrial Planets and Comets 3. EPSC-DPS Session SB1: Dynamical and Physical Characterisation of Small Bodies with Gaia and the New Generation of Surveys 4. EPSC-DPS Session OS1: Ice Giant Systems 5. 2019 NASA Planetary Science Summer Seminar Applications Open 6. GSA Topical Session: Aeolian Activity Across Our Solar System 7. OPAG Registration Page is Now Opened 8. A Software Roadmap for Solar System Science with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope 9. Opening for a Faculty Position in Analytical Planetary Sciences at the Open University, UK 10. Life Special Issue: Planetary Exploration of Habitable Environments 11. NASA FDL 2019 Summer Research Sprint: Call for Applicants 12. Deadline Extended - IAS 2019 Session on Planetary Sedimentary Geology: Mars and Titan 13. 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 ABSTRACTS FOR 2019 PLANETARY GEOLOGIC MAPPERS MEETING DUE APR 4 The 2019 annual meeting of Planetary Geologic Mappers will be held June 12-14 at the USGS Astrogeology Science Center in Flagstaff, AZ. This meeting is required by all who are funded by NASA to make geologic maps to be published by the USGS, but it is also open to anyone in the community making or interested in making geologic maps of other worlds. June 12-13 will be meeting days and June 14 will include GIS software/ practices updates. Abstracts in LPSC-style are due on Thursday, April 4. Full information can be found on the meeting website: https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/pgm2019/ Please direct any questions to meeting chairperson David Williams at: David.Williams@asu.edu David A. Williams Planetary Mapping Community Representative MAPSIT Steering Committee 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 EPSC-DPS SESSION TP20: IONOSPHERES OF UNMAGNETIZED BODIES IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM AND THEIR RESPONSES TO SPACE WEATHER ACTIVITY - TERRESTRIAL PLANETS AND COMETS Geneva, Switzerland 15-20 September 2019 We encourage abstract submissions to our EPSC-DPS 2019 session. The session will focus on the analysis of ionospheres of weakly magnetized bodies with substantial atmospheres (e.g. Mars, Venus, Titan, Pluto and comets), and how each body reacts to space weather disturbances. Understanding how each unmagnetized body reacts to all these factors is a key in comparative aeronomy because although a priori all of them have a general similar behavior, they also have scientifically important differences caused by their different natures. We solicit abstracts concerning remote and in situ data analysis, modeling studies, instrumentation and mission concepts. Topics may include, but are not limited to, day and night side ionospheric variability, sources and influences of ionization, ion-neutral coupling, current systems, comparative ionospheric studies, and solar wind-ionosphere interactions and responses of the ionized and neutral regimes to transient space weather events. Abstracts on general plasma and escape processes are also welcome. https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC-DPS2019/session/34061 Deadline: 8 May 2019 Conveners: Beatriz Sanchez-Cano, Christopher Fowler, Xiaohua Fang, Candace Gray, Pierre Henri, Matteo Crismani [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 EPSC-DPS SESSION SB1: DYNAMICAL AND PHYSICAL CHARACTERISATION OF SMALL BODIES WITH GAIA AND THE NEW GENERATION OF SURVEYS This session welcomes abstracts describing results, developments, and perspectives on the discovery or the physical and dynamical characterisation of the small bodies of our Solar System using ground based and space-borne telescopic surveys. Results related to the utilisation of the stellar and Solar System objects catalogs published in Gaia DR2 are especially welcomed. This session invites also abstracts about future Gaia data releases and their perspectives (asteroid mass measurements, the detection of Yarkovsky acceleration on objects, and spin/shape properties from photometry), as well as other future surveys or missions. The abstract submission deadline is May 8, 2019, 13:00 CEST. Please use the below link to learn more about this session and to submit an abstract: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC-DPS2019/session/34453 We look forward to a great meeting in Geneva. The conveners, Paolo Tanga, Federica Spoto, Joseph Masiero 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 EPSC-DPS SESSION OS1: ICE GIANT SYSTEMS This session welcomes abstracts addressing all aspects of ice giants systems including the internal structure of the ice giants, the composition, structure, and processes of and within ice giant atmospheres, ice giant magnetospheres, satellites, and rings, and the relationship to exoplanetary systems. The session will comprise a combination of solicited and contributed oral and poster presentations on new and continuing studies of the ice giant systems and the connection of the ice giants to our current understanding of exoplanetary systems. For more information see: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC-DPS2019/session/34115 Conveners: D. H. Atkinson, O. Mousis, M. Hofstadter, S. Atreya, T. Cavalie, L. Fletcher, C. Paty, E. P. Turtle [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 2019 NASA PLANETARY SCIENCE SUMMER SEMINAR APPLICATIONS OPEN NASA is accepting applications from science and engineering post-docs, recent PhDs, doctoral students, junior faculty, and engineering students within 6-9 months of completion of their masters degree but not planning to pursue a PhD degree, and junior faculty for its 31st Annual Planetary Science Summer Seminar. PSSS is a 12-week long career development experience from May 20 - August 9, 2019, with an onsite culminating week August 5-9, 2019 at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. During the 11 weeks of virtual webinar sessions and the onsite culminating week at JPL, student teams will carry out the equivalent of an early mission concept study, prepare a proposal authorization presentation, present it to a review board, and receive feedback. By the end of the experience, students will have a clearer understanding of the life cycle of a space mission; relationships between mission design, cost, and schedule; and the tradeoffs necessary to stay within cost and schedule while preserving the quality of science. Applications are due April 8, 2019. Partial financial support is available for a limited number of individuals. Further information is available at: http://psss.jpl.nasa.gov 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 GSA TOPICAL SESSION: AEOLIAN ACTIVITY ACROSS OUR SOLAR SYSTEM GSA Annual Meeting Phoenix, AZ 22-25 Sep 2019 Session Description: Aeolian activity has been identified or suggested on seven different bodies in our Solar System. We explore the forefront of aeolian research by bringing together topics related to Earth, planetary, modern, and ancient aeolian geoscience. Abstracts at every level and from every topic of aeolian science are encouraged. Abstracts Deadline: 25 June Contact the session chairs below for more information. Mackenzie Day (daym@epss.ucla.edu) Matt Chojnacki (chojan1@pirl.lpl.arizona.edu) Serina Diniega (serina.diniega@jpl.nasa.gov) 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 OPAG REGISTRATION PAGE IS NOW OPENED The Registration Page is now opened for the upcoming OPAG meeting on April 23-24 at NASA HQ. Registration is required for all attendees except for the steering committee members. Please go to the OPAG website to access the link: https://www.lpi.usra.edu/opag/meetings/upcoming/ 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 A SOFTWARE ROADMAP FOR SOLAR SYSTEM SCIENCE WITH THE LARGE SYNOPTIC SURVEY TELESCOPE Schwamb et al. (in press) - Published in the Research Notes of the AAS https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab0e10/meta The 8.4-m Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will provide an unprecedented view of the Solar System. LSST will detect millions of asteroids and tens of thousands of distant Solar System bodies, within approximately 16 and 24.5 mag (in r-band). Over a ten year period, most of these minor planets will receive hundreds of observations divided between 6 filters (ugrizy). What specifically LSST project will deliver for Solar System detections will soon be updated in the LSST Data Products Definition Document. The LSST Solar System Science Collaboration (SSSC) http://www.lsstsssc.org produced a science roadmap which outlines the collaboration's highest ranked research priorities utilizing LSST. To achieve these science goals, the SSSC has identified crucial software products and tools that will be required but will not be provided by the LSST project. These will have to be developed by the SSSC and the broader planetary community. To spur this effort, we present this list of LSST community software development tasks. 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 OPENING FOR A FACULTY POSITION IN ANALYTICAL PLANETARY SCIENCES AT THE OPEN UNIVERSITY, UK We are now recruiting to a lectureship position with a research specialism in analytical planetary sciences in the School of Physical Sciences at the Open University. This Faculty position will provide the opportunity to join a large group of planetary scientists with an extensive range of excellent analytical and simulation facilities and involvement in many on-going and planned planetary missions, and to contribute to our distance learning curriculum. The deadline for applications is April 23, 2019. See Open University website for details: http://www.open.ac.uk/about/employment/vacancies/lecturer-planetary- science-15811 10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10 LIFE SPECIAL ISSUE: PLANETARY EXPLORATION OF HABITABLE ENVIRONMENTS The journal Life (ISSN 2075-1729) is currently running a Special Issue entitled "Planetary Exploration of Habitable Environments". Prof. Dr. Dirk Schulze-Makuch, of the Technical University Berlin, (Germany), and Dr. Alberto G. Fairen, of the Centro de Astrobiologia, Madrid (Spain) and Cornell University, Ithaca, (NY, USA), are serving as Guest Editors for this issue. The submission deadline is 15 October 2019. For further reading, please follow the link to the Special Issue Website at: https://www.mdpi.com/si/life/Planetary_Exploration For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at the journal website: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/life/instructions 11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11 NASA FDL 2019 SUMMER RESEARCH SPRINT: CALL FOR APPLICANTS NASA Frontier Development Lab (FDL) is an applied Artificial Intelligence (AI) research sprint that pairs researchers from the space sciences with data scientists for an intense 8-week concentrated study to apply AI to challenges important to space exploration, and to humankind. FDL will run between June 24 - August 16, 2019 in Silicon Valley, CA. We are looking for doctorate or post-doc researchers interested in the following confirmed challenge areas for 2019: - Disaster prevention, progress and response - Expanding the capabilities of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory - Lunar resource mapping / super resolution - Fireball detection and classification - Generation of simulated biosensor data - Small-sat swarms and distributed AI The 8-week format encourages rapid iteration and prototyping to create tools and discoveries with meaningful application, such as NASA Technical Memos, deployed AI systems and peer-reviewed publications. We welcome applications for the 2019 program. Researchers are requested to specify an interest in a specific challenge area. Applications will be accepted until the closing date of April 12, although we encourage you to apply sooner to ensure a place. http://frontierdevelopmentlab.org [Edited for length] 12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12 DEADLINE EXTENDED - IAS 2019 SESSION ON PLANETARY SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY: MARS AND TITAN Abstracts Due: Apr 9 http://iasroma2019.org Rome, Italy September 10-13, 2019 Limited travel grants for IAS Student Members: http://www.sedimentologists.org Session 7.14 Planetary Sedimentary Geology: from remote sensing and in-situ datasets, numerical modelling, experiments and terrestrial analogues Studies in Martian sedimentary geology have never been more active. Orbital imagery has revealed a vast, ancient stratigraphic record and rover missions have enabled detailed sedimentological studies combined with mineralogical and chemical analyses. A growing list of geomorphic landforms is also known from Titan, though it remains uncertain whether the moon has a more ancient stratigraphic record. As on Earth, extraterrestrial sedimentary rocks may archive information pertaining to ancient climate, tectonics and potentially, life. Considering ongoing and future exploration missions aim to find potentially habitable environments, sedimentary rock outcrops therefore make desirable targets. This session invites any contribution towards Martian and Titan sedimentary geology and geochemistry. In addition to the classic contributions, we particularly welcome presentations that utilise appropriate Earth analogues, both modern and ancient. As ongoing and upcoming rover missions are providing increased opportunity to study extraterrestrial sedimentary strata, understanding directly accessible Earth analogues from which to base comparisons has never been more essential. 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