PLANETARY EXPLORATION NEWSLETTER Volume 18, Number 3 (January 21, 2024) PEN Website: https://planetarynews.org Editor: Alex Morgan Co-Editors: Mark V. Sykes, Matthew R Perry Email: pen_editor@psi.edu Twitter: @pen2tweets o-------------------------TABLE OF CONTENTS---------------------------o 1. Post-Doc Opportunity in Rome, Italy 2. Pellas-Ryder Award Nomination Deadline: 31 January 2024 3. Mercury 2024 Meeting: Kyoto, Japan 4. Call for Community Participation in Habitable Worlds Observatory Mission Concept Maturation 5. Free Guide to Science Fiction with Good Astronomy (and Physics) 6. Planetary Meeting Calendar Additions 7. 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 POST-DOC OPPORTUNITY IN ROME, ITALY For the study of Martian analogues to support the ESA Rosalind Franklin Rover mission 1 year, renewable. 32,000 Euro Annual http://tinyurl.com/6hdsck65 The Post-Doc will work in Rome within the context of the Martian Exploration Program of Instituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), funded by the Italian Space Agency Description of Research Activity: - Field survey (photo-interpretation, data collection, sampling, mapping) exploring the geological and geophysical analogies between Rosalind Franklin's landing site and a selection of Earth's environments analog to the mission landing site - Comparison between the field and its Martian counterpart - Documenting samples and cataloguing for online publication - Developing compositional and geologic models - Developing and testing geologic mapping with innovative methods and technologies Due date: 26 January 2024 Requirements: PhD in geology, planetary science, physics, or engineering OR Master's Degree with three years of experience in the field of pure or applied research For inquiries and/or help with the application process, please contact Alessandro Frigeri (alessandro.frigeri@inaf.it) and Francesca Altieri (francesca.altieri@inaf.it) 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 PELLAS-RYDER AWARD NOMINATION DEADLINE: 31 JANUARY 2024 The Pellas-Ryder Award, jointly sponsored by the Meteoritical Society and the Planetary Geology Division of the Geological Society of America, is for undergraduate and graduate students who are first author of a planetary science paper published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal. The award was first given in 2002 and honors the memories of meteoriticist Paul Pellas and lunar scientist Graham Ryder. The deadline for nominations is 31 January, 2024. Details on the nomination process are given on the website: https://meteoritical.org/awards/pellas-ryder-award Please consider submitting a nomination for a deserving student-led paper! 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 MERCURY 2024 MEETING: KYOTO, JAPAN We are excited to invite you to the join the Mercury 2024 meeting, which will be held 4-7 June, 2024, in Kyoto Japan. This is the third meeting in the Mercury series, which began in 2018 and continued in 2022. As with the previous two meetings in this series, Mercury 2024 will cover all scientific aspects of planet Mercury, including the current state of knowledge, BepiColombo activities, and the prospects for future endeavors. The meeting will welcome and encourage participation by the wide-ranging and diverse international Mercury science community. A meeting website will be available in early February, but mark your calendars now to join us! The timing of the Mercury 2024 meeting is chosen to be between JpGU and the BepiColombo SWT to enable participation in multiple meetings during the one trip if desired. Date: 4-7 June 2024 Location: Obaku Plaza, Kyoto University (Uji Campus), Uji, Kyoto, Japan Map: https://maps.app.goo.gl/q7N2rRrhVGFktLJh8 The meeting venue is ~20 min from Kyoto Station, so LOC recommends to stay around Kyoto Station. Recommended hotels will be shown on the website when it is ready. I hope we can see many of you in Japan! Best regards, Go Murakami 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 CALL FOR COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HABITABLE WORLDS OBSERVATORY MISSION CONCEPT MATURATION The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is NASA's next astrophysics flagship mission concept recommended by the 2020 Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics. Two community groups are guiding the early mission concept maturation activities for HWO: a Science, Technology, Architecture Review Team (START) and a Technical Assessment Group (TAG). Working Groups being organized under the START and TAG will be exploring the HWO mission concept's fundamental science goals and how best to pursue them. Several of these Working Groups are focused specifically on planetary science, including solar system observations. Participation in HWO Working Groups is open to the community, and while there is no deadline for expressing interest in participating, activities are anticipated to begin around the end of January 2024 and last throughout the calendar year. Please express interest in joining an HWO Working Group here: https://forms.gle/jwdexDLAfnKAt1eK6 More information on the Habitable Worlds Observatory and START/TAG activities can be found on the NASA website: http://tinyurl.com/39xhtcyt Questions can be sent to the HWO Program Scientist, Megan Ansdell (megan.c.ansdell@nasa.gov). 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 FREE GUIDE TO SCIENCE FICTION WITH GOOD ASTRONOMY (AND PHYSICS) An updated and expanded guide to science fiction with reasonable astronomy, compiled by astronomy educator Andrew Fraknoi, is now available free on line. The 23-page guide is organized by topic; so, for example, all the stories that feature reasonable depictions of black holes are in one place. A total of 44 astronomy (and related physics) topics are covered. For students on limited budgets, the new version includes 88 links to published stories that are available free on the Web. Find the guide at: http://bit.ly/astronomyscifi 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 PLANETARY MEETING CALENDAR ADDITIONS Note: Many face-to-face meetings going forward will have online components. Check their websites for details. Posted at https://planetarynews.org/meetings.html No calendar additions. [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.] 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 PLANETARY SCIENCE JOURNAL - NEW PAPERS Direct Links to Open Access Papers Editor, Faith Vilas https://psj.aas.org Bioverse: The Habitable Zone Inner Edge Discontinuity as an Imprint of Runaway Greenhouse Climates on Exoplanet Demographics Martin Schlecker et al. 2024 PSJ 5:3 https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/acf57f Improved Orthorectification and Empirical Reduction of Topographic Effects in Monostatic Mini-RF S-band Observations of the Moon Caleb I. Fassett et al. 2024 PSJ 5:4 https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad0a61 Categorization of Spatial and Temporal Ejecta Outcomes in Binary Systems Based on Variations of the Didymos System Jennifer N. Larson et al. 2024 PSJ 5:5 https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad0cb9 Cratering and Tectonic History of the Largest Uranian Satellite, Titania: New Insights Enabled by Image Reprocessing Erica Nathan et al. 2024 PSJ 5:6 https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad04d6 Retrievals Applied to a Decision Tree Framework Can Characterize Earthlike Exoplanet Analogs Amber V. Young et al. 2024 PSJ 5:7 https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad09b1 Temperature-related Variations of 1064 nm Surface Reflectance on Mercury: Implications for Space Weathering Ariel N. Deutsch et al. 2024 PSJ 5:8 https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad0e6d Effect of Equation of State and Cutoff Density in Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Simulations of the Moon-forming Giant Impact Scott D. Hull et al. 2024 PSJ 5:9 https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad02f7 New Polarimetric Data for the Galilean Satellites: Io and Ganymede Observations and Modeling Nikolai Kiselev et al. 2024 PSJ 5:10 https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad0bf9 ASTERIA-Asteroid Thermal Inertia Analyzer Bojan Novakovic et al. 2024 PSJ 5:11 https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad08c0 Titan's Atmospheric Albedo Asymmetry and Seasonal Variability Observed through the Cassini Imaging Science Subsystem C. Snell and D. Banfield 2024 PSJ 5:12 https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad0bec *********************************************************************** * 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 and click on Subscribe. * * An unsubscribe option is available at the end of every PEN email. 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