PLANETARY EXPLORATION NEWSLETTER Volume 13, Number 29 (July 14, 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. Horizon 2061 Synthesis Workshop 2. AGU Session EP002: Advances in Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Use for Earth and Planetary Observation 3. AGU Session SM024: Magnetospheres in the Outer Solar System 4. AGU Session P005: Carbon Across the Solar System 5. AGU Session P008: Concepts for Future Planetary Science Missions 6. AGU Session P016: Ice and Ocean Worlds 7. AGU Session P023: Mars Sample Return 8. AGU Session P024: Mercury - The Continuing and Future Exploration of the Innermost Planet 9. AGU Session P027: Passing Through Purgatory - Architectures, Technologies, and Considerations for Accessing Ocean World Interiors 10. AGU Session P033: Sedimentary Volcanism, Diapirism, and Liquefaction in the Solar System 11. AGU Session P037: The Kuiper Belt Captain's Tale - NASA's New Horizons Explores the Pluto System, 2014 MU69 ("Ultima Thule"), and Beyond 12. AGU Session P035: The Evolution of Venus and Venus-like Exoplanets 13. AGU Session P036: The Interiors of Jupiter and Saturn in the Era of Juno and Cassini 14. AGU Session P038: The New Mars Underground 2.0 15. AGU Session P039: The Uranus and Neptune Systems, and Their Relation to Other Planets 16. Planetary Geology/Volcanology Field Trip at GSA 17. OPAG Findings Spring 2019 Now Posted and Upcoming OPAG Meeting 18. Faculty Position at Institute for Planetary Materials 19. [NASA] Three Updates to the ROSES-2019 Summary of Solicitation 20. [NASA] ROSES-19: TWSC Updates 21. 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 HORIZON 2061 SYNTHESIS WORKSHOP The Third Circular of the "Horizon 2061 synthesis workshop" will be organized by IRAP and OMP in Toulouse from September 11-13, 2019. The objectives, contents and components of the "Planetary Science, Horizon 2061" long-term foresight exercise are presented in our conference website: https://h2061-tlse.sciencesconf.org/ The main objective of the Horizon 2061 long-term community foresight exercise is to progressively build with YOUR inputs and YOUR ideas the contours of the four "pillars" of planetary exploration: - the important science questions that planetary exploration addresses; - the broad spectrum of space missions that need to be flown to address these science questions; - the enabling technologies that we will need to master in the coming decades to fly these missions; - the technical infrastructures and services, space-based and ground-based, that will be needed to support the planetary exploration missions and maximize their science return. We have chosen to schedule our workshop just before the EPSC-DPS meeting in Geneva (September 16-20). Travel from Toulouse to Geneva can be done in one-hour direct flights, which should facilitate participation in the two events and decrease travel costs. Register: https://h2061-tlse.sciencesconf.org/registration (early registration until July 22) Abstracts: https://h2061-tlse.sciencesconf.org/index/unauthorized [Edited for length] 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 EP002: ADVANCES IN UNCREWED AERIAL VEHICLE (UAV) USE FOR EARTH AND PLANETARY OBSERVATION We are pleased to invite abstract submissions for the following session at the 2019 AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, CA, December 9-13, 2019. Uncrewed (or unmanned) aerial vehicles (UAVs) present new opportunities for standoff sampling and measurement, close range remote sensing, and detailed reconstruction of Earth and planetary surfaces. UAVs drive innovative studies in many disciplines, targeting a range of challenging environments. New platforms, sensors, operational approaches, and data analysis techniques drive the growing potential of UAVs in high impact, and often low cost, Earth and planetary science research. This session will highlight novel UAV-based studies, especially those using new workflows to address operational, sensor fusion, and data reduction obstacles. We encourage submissions that describe novel work in any of the following areas: (1) applications of UAVs within Earth and planetary science; (2) platforms, sensors, measurement techniques, and operational approaches for UAV-driven studies; (3) post-processing workflows, data management practices, and computational tools that focus UAV data analysis; or (4) methods for visualization and communication of UAV-based science results. Conveners: Daven Quinn (UW Madison) Alistair Hayden (Caltech) Emily Mason (Cambridge) Nathan Stein (Caltech) https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/prelim.cgi/Session/83210 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 SESSION SM024: MAGNETOSPHERES IN THE OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM Conveners: Xianzhe Jia, Chris Paranicas and George Hospodarsky This session invites abstracts covering the structure and dynamics of the magnetospheres of the giant planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune) as well as Ganymede. Papers on magnetospheric and auroral processes including magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling, plasma transport, tail dynamics, rotational modulations, magnetospheric boundaries, and the role of the solar wind are consistent with our session themes. We particularly encourage submissions that compare the giant planet magnetospheres to one another, or compare them to those of terrestrial planets. The session will be an ideal forum for the discussion of recent advances in our understanding of all these systems enabled by in-situ and remote observations as well as theoretical and numerical modeling. For full session description, please visit: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/prelim.cgi/Session/72721 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 SESSION P005: CARBON ACROSS THE SOLAR SYSTEM We invite abstracts for the following session at the 2019 AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, CA, December 9-13, 2019. Recent results ranging from the Kuiper Belt, the Pluto system, the Saturn system, other locations beyond ~5 AU, all the way to Mercury in the inner Solar System, and nearly all points in between, raise questions about the state of carbon in the Solar System: how do carbonaceous compounds become weathered in response to thermal processes and irradiation? How do we recognize carbon compounds and their various weathering products? The syntheses of these results improve our scientific understanding of the role of carbon in the Solar System, how it evolves and how to recognize it. The carbonaceous near-Earth asteroids 162173 Ryugu and 101955 Bennu are now being visited and sampled; the analyses of these samples will provide context for the presence of carbon. In this session, abstracts covering observational, laboratory and modeling work related to carbon and carbonaceous species on Solar System bodies are welcome. Deadline for abstract submissions: Wednesday, 31 July, 23:59 EDT Conveners: Faith Vilas (PSI, fvilas@psi.edu), Amanda R. Hendrix (PSI), Yvonne J. Pendleton (NASA ARC) 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 SESSION P008: CONCEPTS FOR FUTURE PLANETARY SCIENCE MISSIONS We are convening an AGU Fall Meeting session focusing on innovative concepts for future planetary science missions. Note that this session covers mission concepts of all sizes, types, and planetary targets, and from all countries and institutions. We encourage you to submit an abstract to this session (ID 78051, P008: Concepts for Future Planetary Science Missions) in the Planetary Sciences section. For full session description, please visit: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/prelim.cgi/Session/78051 The deadline is Wednesday, 31 July at 23:59 EDT. Note that this has been approved as a Short Talk-style session, so submitters will have the option of presenting a five-minute talk or a poster with a highlight of the poster in the oral session. This new format will allow us to fit more talks into our time allotment, enabling a broader assortment of mission concepts to be presented. Thanks in advance, and we look forward to seeing you at AGU! Best regards, Morgan Cable (Morgan.L.Cable@jpl.nasa.gov), Conor Nixon, Melissa Trainer and Karl Hibbitts 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 SESSION P016: ICE AND OCEAN WORLDS Attention ice-ocean and ocean world enthusiasts! We'd like to draw your attention to session P016: Ice and Ocean Worlds: Geology, oceanography, chemistry, habitability Cross listed within the Planetary, Cryospheric and Ocean Sciences sections, this session brings together studies of icy and ocean worlds: those in our own Solar System and possible worlds in extra-solar systems! We encourage contributions on any topic relating to the icy/ocean world theme, including geophysics, geodynamic modeling, seismic waveform modeling/inversion, hydrogeology, geochemistry, microbiology, in-situ/remote sensing observations, theoretical/modeling and laboratory work, analog field investigations, and more. https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/prelim.cgi/Session/85548 We hope to see you there! Angela Marusiak Saikiran Tharimena Steve Vance 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 AGU SESSION P023: MARS SAMPLE RETURN Balancing the Benefits of a New Phase of Mars Exploration Against Potential Risks to Earth, While Communicating Both to the Public San Francisco, Dec 9-13, 2019 In a mission sequence beginning in 2020, NASA and partners plan to assemble martian samples for possible future return, potentially exposing the Earth to relatively fresh material from Mars. Mars samples will be scientifically selected, and stored there for later pick-up. Sample-return mission partners are studying a joint endeavor that would open Mars as a two-way field site for further study. This session will examine a future MSR campaign, with NASA as systems architect and the lead on an MSR Lander (SRL) mission, and ESA as the lead on an MSR Orbiter mission, providing a Sample Fetch Rover and the Sample Transfer Arm for the SRL. The NASA-provided Sample Capture, Handling, and Containment system and Earth Entry Vehicle would be mounted on the Orbiter, and with a sample receiving facility will be essential to protecting the Earth from sample-exposure risks. Effective public communication will be essential to mission success. Please consider submitting to this session and feel free to pass the information along to anyone you think might be interested. Abstracts are due by July 31, 23:59 EDT For full session description, please visit: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/prelim.cgi/Session/81113 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 AGU SESSION P024: MERCURY - THE CONTINUING AND FUTURE EXPLORATION OF THE INNERMOST PLANET We are pleased to announce a session on Mercury at the 2019 AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, CA, December 9-13, 2019. NASA's MESSENGER mission revolutionized our understanding of Mercury's surface, interior, exosphere, and magnetosphere. With the successful launch of the ESA-JAXA BepiColombo dual spacecraft mission to Mercury in October 2018, that understanding will soon take another substantial step forward. In this session, we welcome papers on data analysis, laboratory measurements, ground-based observations, and theoretical developments that build on the current state of knowledge of Mercury, as well as contributions on Mercury-like exoplanets. We particularly welcome papers on how questions raised by MESSENGER findings can be addressed by future observations expected from BepiColombo. Please consider submitting an abstract for this session. For more information, visit: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/prelim.cgi/Session/82251 The submission deadline is Wednesday, July 31, 2019. Conveners: Paul Byrne (North Carolina State University) Sean Solomon (Columbia University) Johannes Benkhoff (European Space Agency) Masaki Fujimoto (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) We look forward to seeing you in December! 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 AGU SESSION P027: PASSING THROUGH PURGATORY - ARCHITECTURES, TECHNOLOGIES, AND CONSIDERATIONS FOR ACCESSING OCEAN WORLD INTERIORS Conveners: Samuel Howell (samuel.m.howell@jpl.nasa.gov), Kris Zacny, Christine McCarthy, Patrick Gasda Are you interested in getting into the oceans of icy satellites or beneath Earth's ice sheets? The icy interiors and oceans of Ocean Worlds are of great astrobiological potential, and may provide unique insight into the geologic and geochemical evolution of planetary ice formations. In this session we welcome studies related to ice penetration and ocean access on all Ocean Worlds, including Earth, that illuminate potential science and instrumentation, subsurface exploration, and of particular interest, ongoing architecture and technology development efforts for enabling subsurface exploration. https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/prelim.cgi/Session/74457 10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10 AGU SESSION P033: SEDIMENTARY VOLCANISM, DIAPIRISM, AND LIQUEFACTION IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM We would like to invite submissions to our AGU session this fall in San Francisco: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/prelim.cgi/Session/76580 A growing body of research aided by recent orbital observations has begun to address the presence of widespread sedimentary volcanic morphologies on Mars and other bodies. Proposed mud volcanism, sedimentary diapirism, and liquefaction morphologies are supported by observations of pitted cones, flows, and injectites, vacuum chamber experiments, and Earth analog comparison. We solicit contributed papers on data analysis, laboratory measurements, ground-based observations, and theoretical developments that build on the current state of knowledge of sedimentary volcanism on Mars and in the Solar System. Conveners: Jacob Adler (Arizona State University) Chris Okubo (USGS Flagstaff) James Skinner (USGS Flagstaff) 11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11 AGU SESSION P035: THE EVOLUTION OF VENUS AND VENUS-LIKE EXOPLANETS We are pleased to invite you to submit an abstract for the following session at the 2019 AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, CA, December 9-13, 2019. Today Venus appears to be hostile and uninhabitable. However, recent studies have shown that its climate evolution is complex and could permit early habitable conditions (e.g. Way et al. 2016). Other recent studies of Magellan imagery have demonstrated the possibility that many tesserae on Venus are some of the oldest geological surface units visible today (e.g. Gilmore et al. 2017) and may predate much of the near-global resurfacing. The idea that Venus is a static single plate planet has also come into question with the studies of Davaille et al. 2017 and Byrne et al. 2018. All of these studies have implications for the understanding of Venus-like Exoplanets (Kane et al. 2014) to be discovered in the near term. This session will explore recent advances in understanding the evolution of Venus and Venus-like exoplanets and how they may inform each other. https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/prelim.cgi/Session/80203 Conveners: Michael Way (NASA/GISS) Martha Gilmore (Wesleyan) Stephen Kane (UC Riverside) 12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12 AGU SESSION P036: THE INTERIORS OF JUPITER AND SATURN IN THE ERA OF JUNO AND CASSINI Constraining the present-day interior structure and dynamics of giant planets is critical to understanding the formation and evolution of planets in our Solar System and beyond. Both the ongoing Juno mission and the recently concluded Cassini mission have provided a wealth of new measurements, revealing key aspects of the interiors of Jupiter and Saturn for the first time. This session will bring together both observations and theoretical interpretations to improve our understanding of giant planet interiors. We welcome submissions on wide range of interior topics, including: gravity science; strong differential rotation (zonal flows); properties of intrinsic (dynamo) magnetic fields; the existence and properties of the central core; seismic, thermal, and magnetic consequences of stable stratification; normal modes; bulk composition (including helium and heavy element abundance); as well as formation scenarios and evolutionary pathways. https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/prelim.cgi/Session/79026 Conveners: Kimberly Moore (Harvard University), David Stevenson (Caltech) Abstract deadline: 31 July 2019, 11:59 pm EDT 13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13 AGU SESSION P037: THE KUIPER BELT CAPTAIN'S TALE - NASA'S NEW HORIZONS EXPLORES THE PLUTO SYSTEM, 2014 MU69 ("ULTIMA THULE"), AND BEYOND Conveners: Chiristina Dalle Ore, Jeff Moore, Hal Weaver New Horizons, outbound from its successful encounter with Pluto, Charon, and four smaller moons, reached Kuiper belt object (486958) 2014 MU69 on 1 Jan 2019. Just as Pluto was found to be remarkably geologically active for a small, cold, distant planet, 2014 MU69 proved to be, in its own way, a revelation. Formed of two contrasting lobes, apparently gently merged in the earliest days of the Solar System, "Ultima Thule" is providing detailed insights into the conditions and processes of planetesimal formation. This session encourages submissions on analysis and modeling of Pluto system data from the 2015 encounter, presentation of new data from the Ultima Thule encounter, along with emerging understanding of planetesimal formation and evolution. Submissions are also encouraged on Kuiper belt science generally, including Earth-based observations, theoretical modeling, New Horizons observations of other KBOs and the heliosphere, and plans for future exploration of the Solar System's 3rd zone. https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/prelim.cgi/Session/83603 Abstracts are due 31 July! 14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14 AGU SESSION P038: THE NEW MARS UNDERGROUND 2.0 After last year's highly successful "The New Mars Underground" session, we look forward to seeing again many abstracts focusing on the Martian subsurface: its properties, processes and prospects for life, ancient and modern, across science, enabling technologies and mission concepts. The Martian crustal subsurface encompasses a wide range of environments at depths from ~centimeters to kilometers. These environments are relatively unexplored but are of enormous interest for planetary science. Recent results, e.g., methane fluctuations, radar data that are consistent with liquid subsurface water, and ongoing debates on RSL, all point to dynamic subsurface environments. We invite contributions that address the nature and diversity of Mars crustal subsurface environments (modeling, experiments, observations) or develop the tools/missions for exploring them (sounding, access, in situ analysis). We are particularly interested in contributions that advance our understanding of how the subsurface changes with geographic location and depth, in respect to: volatiles such as brines, ices, clathrates, salts, methane and oxidants, the potential for extant life and the preservation of signs of extinct life, the redox potential of past and present environments, and the technologies/mission concepts that enable such subsurface exploration. Conveners: Vlada Stamenkovic (JPL, Vlada.Stamenkovic@jpl.nasa.gov), Nina Lanza (Los Alamos), Jack Mustard (Brown), Kris Zacny (Honeybee) Abstracts due: 31 July 2019, 11:59 pm EDT https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/prelim.cgi/Session/83347 15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15 AGU SESSION P039: THE URANUS AND NEPTUNE SYSTEMS, AND THEIR RELATION TO OTHER PLANETS https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/prelim.cgi/Session/81002 Uranus and Neptune systems are high-priority targets for near-future exploration by orbiter and/or flyby missions that may accompany in situ probes and landers. We aim to hold a highly interdisciplinary session that advances the state of the art in our understanding of all aspects of ice-giant systems: the magnetospheres, satellites, rings, atmospheres, and interiors of Uranus and Neptune; their formation and evolution; and their relation to other planets in and beyond our solar system. Our session especially welcomes presentations that advance our understanding of the Ice Giant systems in preparation for future remote sensing and in situ explorations. We solicit presentations on observations, modeling, theory and laboratory work, as well as concepts for missions and instruments relevant for future exploration of the Ice Giant Systems. Convenors: Kunio Sayanagi, Krista Soderlund, Zibi Turtle, Xin Cao 16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16 PLANETARY GEOLOGY/VOLCANOLOGY FIELD TRIP AT GSA Thinking about a field trip at GSA this year? Please consider the following 3 day/2 night trip (Sep 19-21): "Unraveling volcanic and related processes using remotely sensed data sets: Perspectives from a Miocene-aged volcanic terrain in northwest Arizona" Cost: $448 Registration deadline: August 19 (early registration deadline) https://community.geosociety.org/gsa2019/attend/registration Student funding opportunities: The Planetary Geology Division (PGD) of GSA is offering a limited number of student travel awards for this trip. To apply for a travel award, please email a 1-2 page CV and a ~300-500 word justification to Nick Lang (nlang@mercyhurst.edu) explaining: 1) how attendance on this trip would enhance your current research and/or future career goals, 2) if you are attending the annual meeting in Phoenix, and 3) if you are presenting at GSA (include presentation title and if it is a poster or oral presentation). Any recipients of a travel award are expected to help staff the PGD booth during the annual meeting. Applications must be received by 8 pm EDT Tuesday, August 20 to be considered; reward recipients will be notified soon after this deadline. For more information, email Nick Lang (nlang@mercyhurst.edu) 17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17 OPAG FINDINGS SPRING 2019 NOW POSTED AND UPCOMING OPAG MEETING https://www.lpi.usra.edu/opag/meetings/apr2019/OPAG%20Findings%20Spring %202019.pdf Reminder: Upcoming Meetings The next OPAG Meeting will be held August 20-21, 2019, Boulder, CO. The day prior, August 19, will be the Ocean World Access Working Group Workshop. The meeting will be held at the University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP), Space Science Building, Room W120 (SPSC) on East Campus, 3665 Discovery Drive, Boulder, Colorado, 80303. Directions to SPSC can be found at: http://lasp.colorado.edu/home/about/address-directions/spsc/ The Outer Planets Assessment Group (OPAG) will be devoting the bulk of its August meeting to discussions and preparation for the next Decadal Survey. Community members are encouraged to attend and add their voice to this diverse discussion. During the meeting we will arrange panel discussions on various topics. Please contact Carrie Chavez (cchavez@seti.org) by August 15 if you would like to lead one of these panel discussions. By the end of the meeting we expect to produce a list of three key recommendations to develop and eventually deliver to the Decadal Survey committee for consideration 18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18 FACULTY POSITION AT INSTITUTE FOR PLANETARY MATERIALS The Institute for Planetary Materials (IPM), Okayama University, Misasa, Japan, invites applications for an Assistant Professor (tenure track) position in the area of Astrobiology. IPM consists of three divisions, the Division for Astrobiology, the Division for Planetary System Science, and the Division for Basic Planetary Materials Science. Further information about the faculty, research and facilities of the Institute can be found at the IPM website: http://www.misasa.okayama-u.ac.jp Applications are invited for a tenure-track assistant professor position in the Division for Astrobiology. http://www.misasa.okayama-u.ac.jp/eng/announcement/?eid=01724 We seek a candidate who will be able to develop a novel and independent research program in one of the research areas in astrobiology, such as analytical or experimental studies of prebiotic chemistry, mineral-water-organic interactions related to the origin of life, the search for signatures of primitive life on the early Earth or in the Solar System, and also work within a collaborative environment with other staff to pursue joint researches on Earth and planetary materials. 19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19-19 [NASA] THREE UPDATES TO THE ROSES-2019 SUMMARY OF SOLICITATION SRLV POC update and two clarifications to the ROSES-2019 Summary of Solicitation: https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/viewrepositorydocument/ cmdocumentid=669382/solicitationId=%7BABB576B8-F844-25E0-AD23- 9E94AAC04AE1%7D/viewSolicitationDocument=1/ROSES%202019%20SoS%20July% 209%20update.pdf Three things have been changed in the ROSES-2019 Summary of Solicitation: 1. The POC for Suborbital Reusable Launch Vehicles in Section V(b)iii has been updated, 2. A new bullet about purchasing computers has been added to Section IV.(d) including a link to a new ROSES FAQ#27 on this topic: https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/faqs#27 3. The section of Table 1 on References now links to ROSES FAQ #19 clarifying references to web pages/URLs: https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/faqs#19 Questions about the Summary of Solicitation in general and these updates in particular may be directed to SARA@nasa.gov. 20-20-20-20-20-20-20-20-20-20-20-20-20-20-20-20-20-20-20-20-20-20-20-20 [NASA] ROSES-19: TWSC UPDATES E.2 Topical Workshops, Symposia, and Conferences (TWSC) is updated in a number of ways, adding new subsection and clarifying existing text. https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?solId=% 7bC5D940F1-2FDD-C1AF-05A3-07BBF6B7454A%7d&path=&method=init This program element is strictly limited to proposals for topical workshops, symposia, conferences, and other scientific/technical meetings that advance the goals and objectives of the Earth Science, Heliophysics, and Planetary Science Divisions. This program element does not support any type of research projects; course development; and/or scholarships or fellowships. Proposals may be submitted at any time during the open period of ROSES-2019. The coordinating point of contact for programmatic information is Mary Sladek who may be reached at mary.f.sladek@nasa.gov. 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