PLANETARY EXPLORATION NEWSLETTER Volume 15, Number 23 (May 30, 2021) PEN Website: http://planetarynews.org Editor: Mark V. Sykes Co-Editors: Alex Morgan, Elisabeth Adams, Georgiana Kramer Email: pen_editor@psi.edu Twitter: @pen2tweets o-------------------------TABLE OF CONTENTS---------------------------o 1. Farewell Elisabeth Adams, Hello Alex Morgan 2. This Week's Open Meetings of Decadal Survey Panels 3. Upcoming Open Decadal Survey Venus Panel Session on Technology for Exploring Venus 4. Mercury Science and Exploration Newsletter Released May 2021 5. NASA Planetary Advisory Committee Meeting 6. NASA's New Europa Trek Portal 7. Postdoc Position at UC Berkeley Space Sciences Lab 8. STEMM Assistant Professor Sought, University of Alabama 9. Planetary Meeting Calendar Additions 10. Planetary Science Journal - New Papers 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 FAREWELL ELISABETH ADAMS, HELLO ALEX MORGAN PSI Associate Research Scientist Elisabeth Adams has been a Planetary Exploration Newsletter editor since January 15, 2017. Over her more than four and a half years with PEN, she has volunteered her weekend hours to edit and co-edit 239 issues in service to our planetary community. This is her last issue, after which she is retiring from her editorship. It has been a pleasure working with her. We would also like to welcome PSI Research Scientist Alex Morgan as a new PEN editor! Mark Sykes Georgiana Kramer 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 THIS WEEK'S OPEN MEETINGS OF DECADAL SURVEY PANELS Wednesday, June 2, 11:00AM-6:00PM ET Panel on Small Solar System Bodies Meeting #12 https://bit.ly/3g0lXMC Wednesday, June 2, 11:00AM-5:00PM ET Panel on Venus Meeting #18 https://bit.ly/3fzQLoq Friday, June 4, 12:00PM-6:00PM ET Panel on Mercury and the Moon Meeting #18 https://bit.ly/2RNysTG Please see links above for agenda and connection information. For more information on the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032, go to: https://bit.ly/PSADS_general 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 UPCOMING OPEN DECADAL SURVEY VENUS PANEL SESSION ON TECHNOLOGY FOR EXPLORING VENUS The Venus panel of the Decadal Survey on Planetary Science and Astrobiology will hold a themed session on technology for exploring Venus - including platforms and instruments currently under development to enable long-term operations on the Venus surface - on Wednesday June 2nd. This session is open to the public, and will run from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm Eastern. Confirmed speakers for this session include Guillaume Avice (IPGP), David Blake (NASA Ames), Samuel Clegg (LANL), James Cutts (JPL), Jeffery Hall (JPL), and Tibor Kremic (NASA Glenn). You can find connection details, as well as information on future session themes and speakers, on the Venus panel webpage on the National Academies website: https://tinyurl.com/VenusPanel A Google Doc will be available on the day for members of the public to post questions for the speakers. Best wishes, Paul Byrne (Panel Chair) Larry Esposito (Panel Vice-Chair) 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 MERCURY SCIENCE AND EXPLORATION NEWSLETTER RELEASED MAY 2021 The Mercury Exploration Assessment Group (MExAG) is circulating Issue 3 of "The Mercury Newsletter." This new quarterly community newsletter can be accessed online at: https://www.lpi.usra.edu/mexag/newsletter/ In this newsletter, we share Mercury science and exploration news, highlight recent publications, and note upcoming meetings. Please send your Mercury community announcements and calendar items for inclusion in the newsletter to the MExAG Steering Committee at mexag.sc@gmail.com. 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 NASA PLANETARY ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING The next NASA Planetary Advisory Committee (PAC) meeting will be held, via WebEx, on June 14, 2021 (10 am to 6 pm, Eastern). Full agenda: https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/nac/science-advisory-committees/pac 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 NASA'S NEW EUROPA TREK PORTAL NASA's Solar System Treks Project has just released a new addition to its family of online data visualization and analysis portals, Europa Trek: https://trek.nasa.gov/europa Europa Trek combines Voyager and Galileo data to allow users to examine the surface of Europa and conduct interactive flights over its terrain. Europa Trek can serve as a preview for upcoming missions including NASA's Europa Clipper mission and the European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE) mission. NASA's Solar System Treks provides a collection of online, browser-based data visualization and analysis portals for a growing number of bodies in our Solar System. The portals allow mission planners, planetary scientists, students, and the general public to study these worlds as seen through the eyes of many instruments aboard a growing number of spacecraft. Development and operations of the Solar System Treks is done at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the project is managed through NASA's Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute. 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 POSTDOC POSITION AT UC BERKELEY SPACE SCIENCES LAB The Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley seeks applications for a full-time (100%) Postdoctoral Scholar-Employee with an expected start date between May 15, 2021 and September 1, 2021. The Postdoctoral Scholar will work with Dr. Andrew Poppe in the fields of lunar and small body plasma and exospheric research as part of the LEADER team of NASA's Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI). The successful applicant will join a dynamic and productive group of researchers investigating solar and magnetospheric plasma interactions with the Moon, asteroids, the moons of Mars, and the outer planet satellites. Research is conducted via both analysis of existing in-situ datasets from missions such as ARTEMIS and MAVEN, and via numerical modeling across a broad range of scales. For more information about the position, including required qualifications application materials, and deadlines, go to: https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF02987 The position will remain open until filled. For questions, please email Dr. Andrew Poppe at poppe@berkeley.edu. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or protected veteran status. 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 STEMM ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SOUGHT, UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA The University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Physics invites applications for a full time [9- or 12-month] non-tenure-earning Assistant Professor position focused on Distance-Accessible STEMM Learning and Outreach through Astronomy Education. To apply: https://uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/8843 More information about the UAB Department of Physics is at: https://www.uab.edu/cas/physics/ 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 PLANETARY MEETING CALENDAR ADDITIONS Posted at http://planetarynews.org/meetings.html October 6-8, 2021 Space Tech Expo USA https://www.spacetechexpo.com Long Beach, CA [Editor Note: If there is a planetary-related meeting, conference or workshop that you think your colleagues should be aware of, please send the date, title, URL and location to pen_editor@psi.edu.] 10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10 PLANETARY SCIENCE JOURNAL - NEW PAPERS Editor, Faith Vilas http://psj.aas.org Framework for Coordinated Efforts in the Exploration of Volatiles in the South Polar Region of the Moon Myriam Lemelin et al. 2021 PSJ 2:103 http://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/abf3c5 Narrowband Observations of Comet 46P/Wirtanen during Its Exceptional Apparition of 2018/19. II. Photometry, Jet Morphology, and Modeling Results Matthew M. Knight et al. 2021 PSJ 2:104 http://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/abef6c *********************************************************************** * 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.html, or * send a request to pen_editor@psi.edu * * To unsubscribe, send an email to pen_editor@psi.edu * * Please send all replies and submissions to pen_editor@psi.edu. * Announcements and other messages should be brief with links to URLs * for extended information, including detailed descriptions for job * announcements. Title plus text is limited to 200 words. All PEN * submissions will be tweeted @pen2tweets. Please submit a 234 (or * fewer) character tweet to accommodate the PEN tag. Alternatively, * the editorial staff will create one for you. 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