PLANETARY EXPLORATION NEWSLETTER Volume 15, Number 49 (November 28, 2021) PEN Website: https://planetarynews.org Editor: Georgiana Kramer Co-Editors: Mark V. Sykes, Alex Morgan Email: pen_editor@psi.edu Twitter: @pen2tweets o-------------------------TABLE OF CONTENTS---------------------------o 1. [NASA] PDS: Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Data Release 27 2. [NASA] PDS: Mars 2020 Mission Release 2 3. PDS Service Booth at AGU 2021 4. AGU Session P24C: Ultraviolet Observing of Solar System Targets 5. AGU Session P11A: Carbon Across the Solar System 6. The 6th Beijing Earth and Planetary Interiors Symposium (BEPIS) 7. Forming and Exploring Habitable Worlds 8. EGU22 Call for Abstracts PS9.1: Atmospheres and Exospheres of Terrestrial Planets, Satellites, and Exoplanets 9. Commemorating the Collapse of the Arecibo Telescope 10. Ph.D. Opportunity in Planetary Mineralogy/Geochemistry at Southern Illinois University 11. Postdoctoral Scholar in Sediment Transport at Stanford University 12. Postdoctoral Position in Planetary Climate Modeling 13. Planetary Meeting Calendar Additions 14. 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 [NASA] PDS: MARS ATMOSPHERE AND VOLATILE EVOLUTION DATA RELEASE 27 The Planetary Data System (PDS) is pleased to announce the release of the following data from MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) Release 27, nominally with data to August 2021: - ANC (ancillary) - EUV (Extreme Ultraviolet Monitor) - IUVS (Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph) - KP (Insitu Key Parameters) - LPW (Langmuir Probe and Waves) - MAG (Magnetometer) - NGIMS (Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer) - ROSE (Radio Occultation Science Experiment) - SEP (Solar Energetic Particle) - SPICE - STATIC (Supra-Thermal and Thermal Ion Composition) - SWEA (Solar Wind Electron Analyzer) - SWIA (Solar Wind Ion Analyzer) No more data is expected from: ACCEL (Accelerometer) To access the above data, please visit: https://pds.nasa.gov/datasearch/subscription-service/SS-20211115.shtml To access the latest PDS Data Releases, please visit: https://pds.nasa.gov/datasearch/subscription-service/SS-Release.shtml All available PDS data may be found at: https://pds.nasa.gov/datasearch/data-search For further information: https://pds.nasa.gov 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 [NASA] PDS: MARS 2020 MISSION RELEASE 2 The NASA Planetary Data System announces Release 2 of data from the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover mission to Mars. This release contains raw, calibrated, and derived data products covering sols 90-179 of the mission, May 22 through August 21, 2021. The data are archived at various PDS Nodes. Links to all the archives can be found at: https://pds-geosciences.wustl.edu/missions/mars2020/ Data from the following science investigations are included in this release: - Mastcam-Z - Mast-mounted Zoom Camera System - Engineering Hazard and Navigation Cameras - Helicopter Cameras - EDLCam - Entry, Descent, and Landing System Cameras - MEDA - Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer - MOXIE - Mars Oxygen ISRU Experiment - PIXL - Planetary Instrument for X-ray Lithochemistry - RIMFAX - Radar Imager for Mars Subsurface Exploration - SHERLOC - Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals - SuperCam - LIBS, Raman, Time-Resolved Fluorescence, VIS/IR spectrometers, Remote Micro-Imager and microphone - SPICE - Observation geometry and ancillary data To subscribe to future announcements of Mars2020 data releases: https://pds.nasa.gov/tools/subscription_service/top.cfm To access the latest PDS Data Releases: https://pds.nasa.gov/datasearch/subscription-service/SS-Release.shtml All available PDS data may be found at: https://pds.nasa.gov/datasearch/data-search For further information: https://pds.nasa.gov 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 PDS SERVICE BOOTH AT AGU 2021 NASA's Planetary Data System (PDS) is hosting a user support area for members of the community who are archiving in the PDS, using data archived in the PDS, or need help finding data in the PDS at the 2021 AGU in New Orleans 13-17 December. We can be found in the exhibition area at location number 1333. You can find additional information at: https://pds.nasa.gov Thank you. 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 P24C: ULTRAVIOLET OBSERVING OF SOLAR SYSTEM TARGETS Tuesday, 14 December 2021 14:30-15:45 CST Please join us for this dynamic panel discussion! https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm21/meetingapp.cgi/Session/134994 Ultraviolet spectroscopy and imaging have a decades-long history as valuable techniques for studying atmospheres, aurorae, plumes and surface composition and volatiles on asteroids, comet nuclei and moons. While there continue to be opportunities for UV remote sensing from Earth orbit and in future robotic missions, the infrastructure for UV instrumentation is at a crossroads. Existing orbital facilities are nearing the end of their useful lives and there continue to be many phenomena that cannot be effectively studied with existing, high-heritage instrument designs. Exciting advances in UV-optimized technologies promise new capabilities that can be incorporated into the next generation of robotic probes, flexible SmallSat missions, and large aperture space-based observatories. This session welcomes abstracts covering UV science results, as well as reports on progress toward developing new technologies such as UV detectors, high performance coatings and novel sensor designs. We hope to see you there, in person or virtually! 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 P11A: CARBON ACROSS THE SOLAR SYSTEM Monday, 13 December 2021 08:00-09:15 CST We hope to see you at this panel discussion! https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm21/meetingapp.cgi/Session/134955 Studies of the existence and state of carbonaceous material on Solar System bodies is at the forefront of planetary research. Samples of low-albedo asteroid 162173 Ryugu from the Hayabusa2 probe are on Earth and are being studied beginning in 2021. The OSIRIS-REx space probe has retrieved samples from low-albedo asteroid 101955 Bennu. As a framework for these studies, telescopic, laboratory and theoretical studies of carbon in all its forms have recently snowballed. The 2018 SSERVI Carbon in the Solar System workshop launched a series of presentations and discussions at various venues, enabling an information exchange around the weathering of carbonaceous compounds in response to thermal processes and irradiation, and what implications these compositions have for understanding material processing in the Solar System. We will generate and share ideas to support research of the new samples, along with studies of carbon, in various forms, at other locations across the Solar System. 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 THE 6TH BEIJING EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS SYMPOSIUM (BEPIS) Dear Colleagues, This is a brief notice to announce that the BEPIS will be held in August 2022. The talks will be given online and/or at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. BEPIS focuses on observations and theoretical advances in paleo-, geo-, bio-, and rock magnetism, geodynamo theories and models, as well as planetary magnetism, with a primary aim of further understanding the origin, structure, and variations of Earth and planetary magnetic fields. Further details will be posted soon on the meeting website: https://bepis2022.casconf.cn/ If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact Professor Chenglong Deng (cldeng@mail.iggcas.ac.cn). We cordially invite friends, old and new, to participate in the BEPIS2022. All the best, Yongxin Pan, Keke Zhang, Chenglong Deng, Rixiang Zhu 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 FORMING AND EXPLORING HABITABLE WORLDS Meeting dates: 7-13 November 2022 Location: Edinburgh with an optional retreat to Stirlingshire Abstract and early registration deadline: 15 April 2022 https://www.habitableworlds.co.uk The inaugural Forming and Exploring Habitable Worlds meeting is a multi-discipline, week-long, international scientific meeting for the exchange of new interdisciplinary findings and ideas relating to two principal themes: 1) The origins of habitable bodies in and beyond our home Solar System. 2) The motivation for and current status of priorities for space exploration and its governance. This meeting is to accommodate - with generous spacing for reasons of COVID safety - roughly 120 in-person delegates of all career stages based in a range of relevant employment sectors. A hybrid model is envisaged to be delivered so as to broaden participation by accommodating virtual attendance of additional delegates. The welcoming atmosphere of this modest-sized event will foster friendly scientific exchange and shall help to promote networking beneficial to early, mid, and senior career planetary scientists, space lawyers, educators, and space technology / mission innovators. Students and those in their early careers are particularly encouraged to attend and contribute their work in this friendly, relatively unintimidating, and specialist gathering. 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 EGU22 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS PS9.1: ATMOSPHERES AND EXOSPHERES OF TERRESTRIAL PLANETS, SATELLITES, AND EXOPLANETS EGU22 will be held in Vienna on 3-8 April 2022. Please, consider submitting an abstract to the EGU22 Session PS9.1: "Atmospheres and Exospheres of Terrestrial Planets, Satellites, and Exoplanets" Go to: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU22/session/44231 The deadline for the abstract submission is 12 January 2022, 13:00 CET or, for those applying for EGU travel support, 1 December 2021. This session primarily focuses on the neutral atmospheres of terrestrial bodies other than the Earth. This includes not only Venus and Mars, but also exoplanets with comparable envelopes and satellites carrying dense atmospheres such as Titan or exospheres such as Ganymede. We welcome contributions dealing with processes affecting the atmospheres of these bodies, from the surface to the exosphere. We invite abstracts concerning observations, both from Earth or from space, modeling and theoretical studies, or laboratory work. Comparative planetology abstracts will be particularly appreciated. Hope to see you in Vienna! With best regards, The conveners Arianna Piccialli, Arnaud Beth and Audrey Vorburger 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 COMMEMORATING THE COLLAPSE OF THE ARECIBO TELESCOPE The Arecibo Science Advocacy Partnership (ASAP) invites you to participate in a commemoration of the tragic collapse of the 305m telescope at the Arecibo Observatory one year ago. Date: Wednesday, 1 December, Noon ET Moderated by ASAP Board Chair, Prof. Hector Arce Keynote presentation: "Celebrating the William E. Gordon 305m Telescope: Its History and Scientific Achievements" given by Prof. Don Campbell, former NAIC Director and author of "A Brief History of the Observatory". Members of the ASAP Board will also give a brief update on activities advocating for the Observatory's future. If you would like to receive the Zoom link, provide your email address: https://forms.gle/hos6rZLVJwJ2wNAg8 10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10 PH.D. OPPORTUNITY IN PLANETARY MINERALOGY/GEOCHEMISTRY AT SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY The Geochemistry Lab at Southern Illinois University (Dr, Liliana Lefticariu, lefticar@siu.edu) in collaboration with NASA Johnson Space Center (Dr. Tanya Peretyazhko) and Illinois State Geological Survey (Dr. Martin Pentrak) is seeking a highly motivated Ph.D. student for an interdisciplinary project in planetary mineralogy/geochemistry and astrobiology. The project, funded by NASA, aims to study the transformation of phyllosilicate minerals under Mars-relevant conditions and determine the mechanisms by which phyllosilicates transform under a wide range of environmental conditions. The ideal candidate should have an excellent background in clay mineralogy and be familiar with X-ray diffraction, infrared and Raman spectroscopies, and general wet laboratory techniques. The 3-year assistantship includes a monthly stipend and full tuition and fee waiver. For a detailed description of this opportunity, see: https://bit.ly/3oZu0NS The application deadline for SIUC graduate admissions is February 15, 2022, and more information can be found here: https://geology.siu.edu/graduate/application-information.php 11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11 POSTDOCTORAL SCHOLAR IN SEDIMENT TRANSPORT AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher to lead a series of low-pressure wind tunnel experiments to understand the formation of eolian ripples under a range of atmospheric pressures. This work is funded by a NASA Solar System Workings grant. The postdoctoral scholar will be appointed at Stanford University under the supervision of Dr. Mathieu Lapotre, lead and conduct the experiments at the NASA Ames Research Center, and collaborate with Drs. Ryan Ewing (Texas A&M) and Christy Swann (Naval Research Laboratory). Applicants must demonstrate expertise in sediment transport and flow hydrodynamics/aerodynamics. Previous experience with Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) is strongly desired. Please contact Dr. Mathieu Lapotre (mlapotre@stanford.edu) with a CV for more information. Desired start date: January 15 - April 15, 2022 12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12 POSTDOCTORAL POSITION IN PLANETARY CLIMATE MODELING DTU Space (the National Space Institute at the Technical University of Denmark) invites applications for a 3-year postdoctoral research position in planetary climates to work with Senior Researcher Dr Joao Mendonca. The successful applicant is expected to have experience in planetary modeling, including atmospheric or interior modeling, and will join the Exoplanet Group at DTU. The new postdoctoral researcher will primarily work on Venus science and the characterization of terrestrial extrasolar planets. The successful applicant is expected to have research experience in planetary sciences (e.g., planetary atmospheres and/or interiors). During the 3-year appointment, the successful applicant will contribute to the ESA EnVision mission science and will also be able to conduct her/his/their independent research, increasing the group's model expertise. The start date is flexible but expected to be in the fall of 2022. Candidates should have a Ph.D. or equivalent by the start of the appointment. Please submit your online application no later than 15 December 2021 (Danish time). To view the full announcement and to apply: https://bit.ly/2ZxxTBc 13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13 PLANETARY MEETING CALENDAR ADDITIONS Posted at https://planetarynews.org/meetings.html January 11-13, 2022 Low-Cost Science Mission Concepts for Mars Exploration https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lowcostmars2022/ Pasadena, CA June 5-10, 2022 AOGS 2022 https://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2022/ Honolulu, HI November 7-13, 2022 Forming and Exploring Habitable Worlds https://www.habitableworlds.co.uk Edinburgh, Scotland [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.] 14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14 PLANETARY SCIENCE JOURNAL - NEW PAPERS Editor, Faith Vilas https://psj.aas.org No new papers. *********************************************************************** * The Planetary Exploration Newsletter is issued approximately weekly. * Current and back issues are available at https://planetarynews.org * * To subscribe, go to https://planetarynews.org/pen_subscribe.php, 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. 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