PLANETARY EXPLORATION NEWSLETTER Volume 18, Number 12 (March 17, 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. Planet Characterization Workshop PSJ Special Issue 2. NASA Infrared Telescope Facility Observing Proposals 3. [NASA] PDS: Mars Science Laboratory Release 35 4. [NASA] PDS: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Data Release 57 5. [NASA] F.23 SMD Bridge Seed Funding Office Hours March 19, 21, & 25 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 PLANET CHARACTERIZATION WORKSHOP PSJ SPECIAL ISSUE We want to thank the community for making The Planet Characterization 2024 Workshop a success! We also want to remind you that The Planetary Science Journal (PSJ) is soliciting papers from the workshop for a focus issue it will publish. To designate your submitted paper for the Planet Characterization Workshop focus issue, please add a note to the comments section when submitting the manuscript (e.g., "or Planet Characterization focus issue"). Visit the PSJ website for more information: https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/2632-3338 or contact AAS Journals for any questions about submitting the manuscript. Deadline to submit papers: May 1, 2024 Sincerely, Katie Bennett, Guy Consolmagno, Phil Metzger, Kirby Runyon, Alan Stern, and Mark Sykes 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 INFRARED TELESCOPE FACILITY OBSERVING PROPOSALS The due date for the 2024B semester (August 1, 2024 to January 31, 2025) is Monday, April 1, 2024. See our online submission form. Information on available facility and visitor instruments and performance can be found at: https://irtfweb.ifa.hawaii.edu/instruments Observing on-site or remote observing is available with SpeX, MORIS, iSHELL, MIRSI/MOC, and 'Opihi; please see the instrument pages for more information, including the exposure time calculators for SpeX and iSHELL. The full text of this announcement is available here: https://irtfweb.ifa.hawaii.edu/observing/callForProposals.php 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 [NASA] PDS: MARS SCIENCE LABORATORY RELEASE 35 The NASA Planetary Data System announces Release 35 of data from the Mars Science Laboratory (Curiosity) mission. This release contains raw and derived data products covering the time period July 29 through November 6, 2023 (sols 3903-3999). Several instruments have begun archiving their data in accordance with the PDS4 standard. The data are archived at various PDS nodes. - APXS (Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer) at the Geosciences Node - ChemCam at the Geosciences Node - CheMin at the Geosciences Node - DAN at the Geosciences Node - Engineering Cameras at the Cartography and Imaging Sciences Node - MAHLI (Mars Hand Lens Imager) at the Cartography and Imaging Sciences Node - Mastcam at the Cartography and Imaging Sciences Node - PLACES Database at the Cartography and Imaging Sciences Node - RAD (Radiation Assessment Detector) at the PPI Node - REMS (Rover Environmental Monitoring Station) at the Atmospheres Node - SAM (Sample Analysis at Mars) at the Geosciences Node - SPICE at the NAIF Node The data may be accessed from: https://pds-geosciences.wustl.edu/missions/msl/ For a dataset-oriented perspective go to: https://pds.nasa.gov/datasearch/subscription-service/SS-20240315.shtml The next MSL release is scheduled for August 2, 2024. 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 [NASA] PDS: LUNAR RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER DATA RELEASE 57 The NASA Planetary Data System announces Release 57 of data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission. This release contains raw, calibrated, and derived data products covering the nominal time period from September 15 through December 14, 2023. Some instrument teams are delivering more recent data. The data are archived at various PDS nodes. - CRaTER at the PPI Node - Diviner at the Geosciences Node - LAMP at the Cartography and Imaging Sciences Node - LEND at the Geosciences Node - LOLA at the Geosciences Node - LROC at the LROC Data Node - Mini-RF at the Geosciences Node - Radio Science at the Geosciences Node - SPICE at the NAIF Node The data may be accessed from: https://pds-geosciences.wustl.edu/missions/lro/ For a dataset-oriented perspective go to: https://pds.nasa.gov/datasearch/subscription-service/SS-20240315b.shtml LRO releases occur every three months. The next release is scheduled for June 14, 2024. 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] F.23 SMD BRIDGE SEED FUNDING OFFICE HOURS MARCH 19, 21, AND 25 The SMD Bridge Seed Funding (BPSF) Program Element of ROSES-2023 solicits proposals to support faculty and students at under-resourced institutions to carry out relevant research. Through the BPSF Program, SMD aims to facilitate new and expand ongoing partnerships between students and faculty at URIs and researchers at NASA Centers that could be expected to grow into Bridge partnerships and become well-positioned to submit a proposal to a future SMD Bridge Program opportunity. The final day to submit proposals to the current opportunity is March 29, 2024! The SMD Bridge team will be available to assist proposing teams, through virtual office hours. A Microsoft Teams link is provided for each office hours Session: Tuesday March 19, 2:30-4pm EST Meeting ID: 286 402 712 619, Passcode: qAmpWN Or call in: +1-256-715-9946, Conference ID: 449 925 78# Thursday March 21, 3:30-5pm EST Meeting ID: 210 723 925 37, Passcode: 4TBQSy Or call in: +1-256-715-9946, Conference ID: 614 583 383# Monday March 25, 3:30-5pm EST Meeting ID: 211 640 661 095, Passcode: Uq9R5x Or call in: +1-256-715-9946, Conference ID: 269 585 026# See more on NSPIRES: https://tinyurl.com/w3uh4cvu Direct questions to: hq-smd-bridge@mail.nasa.gov [Edited for length] 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 April 24-26, 2024 Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group (MEPAG) Hybrid Meeting #41 https://www.lpi.usra.edu/mepag/meetings/mepagapril2024/ Washington, DC August 12-14, 2024 Terrestrial Analogs for Planetary Exploration Workshop https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/terrestrialanalogs2024/ Flagstaff, AZ August 14-16, 2024 2024 Annual Meeting of the Planetary Geologic Mappers https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/pgm2024/ Flagstaff, AZ November 13-15, 2024 Exoplanets in Our Backyard III https://www.exoplanetsbackyard.com/ Louisville, KY [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 Dynamic Secondary Illumination in Permanent Shadows within Artemis III Candidate Landing Regions Prasun Mahanti et al. 2024 PSJ 5:62 https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad1b50 On the Fate of Slow Boulders Ejected after DART Impact on Dimorphos Fernando Moreno et al. 2024 PSJ 5:63 https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad26f8 Modeling Atmospheric Lines by the Exoplanet Community (MALBEC) Version 1.0: A CUISINES Radiative Transfer Intercomparison Project Geronimo L. Villanueva et al. 2024 PSJ 5:64 https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad2681 Evaluating Atmospheric and Surface Drivers for O2 Variations at Gale Crater as Observed by MSL SAM Daniel Y. Lo et al. 2024 PSJ 5:65 https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad251b Pre-impact Thermophysical Properties and the Yarkovsky Effect of NASA DART Target (65803) Didymos Benjamin Rozitis et al. 2024 PSJ 5:66 https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad23eb Fermi Resonance and the Quantum Mechanical Basis of Global Warming R. Wordsworth et al. 2024 PSJ 5:67 https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad226d Toward Prebiotic Chemistry on Titan: Impact Experiments on Organic Haze Particles Ben K. D. Pearce et al. 2024 PSJ 5:68 https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad283e Beyond Point Masses. III. Detecting Haumea's Nonspherical Gravitational Field Benjamin C. N. 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