Editor: Alex Morgan
Co-Editors: Mark V. Sykes, Matthew R Perry
Email: pen_editor@psi.edu
Twitter: @pen2tweets

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1. Due date extended: Survey on Planetary Science ROSES Proposals
2. [NASA] ROSES-24 Amendment 60: New Opportunity - D.21 U.S. 
   Contributions to Ariel Preparatory Science
3. [NASA] ROSES-24 Amendment 61: C.23 Analog Activities to Support 
   Artemis Lunar Operations Deferred to ROSES-25
4. [NASA] EONS 2024 Appendix 13: NASA MUREP ESSR Opportunity FINAL 
   Office Hour
5. Associate or Assistant Professor in Astronomy at University of 
   Maryland
6. American Astronomical Society Division for Planetary Sciences 
   Federal Relations Subcommittee Splinter Session at the 2024 DPS 
   Meeting
7. South Pole-Aitken Basin Focus Issue in Planetary Science Journal
8. Planetary Meeting Calendar Additions
9. Planetary Science Journal - New Papers

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DUE DATE EXTENDED: SURVEY ON PLANETARY SCIENCE ROSES PROPOSALS

Have you submitted NASA proposals as PI or Science PI? Please respond 
to this 5-min survey!

This survey is for the entire planetary community! Your input is 
needed! The intent of this survey is to provide an opportunity for 
anonymous feedback on proposal submission rates to NASA ROSES programs 
in the Planetary Science Division and the No Due Date program. Results 
will be assessed by members of the OPAG steering committee and will be 
made public. Questions and comments can be sent to Amanda Hendrix 
(arh@psi.edu). Responses to the survey are requested no later than 25 
October 2024.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/XYMZG2T


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[NASA] ROSES-24 AMENDMENT 60: NEW OPPORTUNITY - D.21 U.S. 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO ARIEL PREPARATORY SCIENCE

Ariel is the fourth European Space Agency (ESA) Cosmic Vision medium 
class science mission which will use near- and mid-infrared 
spectroscopy to characterize the atmospheres of approximately 1000 
exoplanets, thereby providing a systematic statistical assessment of 
the properties of exoplanet atmospheres. NASA is partnering with ESA 
on the Ariel mission through the Contribution to Ariel Spectroscopy of 
Exoplanets (CASE) project which was selected as an Explorers Program 
Mission of Opportunity in 2019. CASE will extend the spectral coverage 
of the Ariel mission by contributing fine guidance sensor units 
capable of providing multiband photometry and low-resolution 
spectroscopy at optical/near-infrared wavelengths. The CASE 
observations will facilitate the detection of clouds and hazes in 
exoplanet atmospheres and measurements of geometric albedos of the 
planets.

https://tinyurl.com/2s4ma65y

Mandatory Notices of intent are due December 12, 2024, and proposals 
are due February 4, 2025. 

A preproposal videoconference for prospective proposers to this 
program will be held at 1 PM EST on November 20, 2024. We will post 
the connection information for the preproposal videoconference in the 
"Other Documents" section on the NSPIRES page by November 1, 2024.

Direct questions to Hannah.Jang-Condell@nasa.gov and 
Douglas.M.Hudgins@nasa.gov.

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[NASA] ROSES-24 AMENDMENT 61: C.23 ANALOG ACTIVITIES TO SUPPORT 
ARTEMIS LUNAR OPERATIONS DEFERRED TO ROSES-25

When it is solicited, the focus of C.23 Analog Activities to Support 
Artemis Lunar Operations is on supporting high-fidelity science 
operations and operations constraints through Artemis human analog 
mission campaigns, including, but not limited to, Joint Extravehicular 
Activity (EVA) Test Team (JETT) and Desert Research and Technology 
Studies (D-RATS). It is intended to enable researchers to participate 
as science team members in the planning, execution, and analysis of 
one or more of these analog mission activities

ROSES-2024 Amendment 61 announces that C.23 Analog Activities to 
Support Artemis Lunar Operations has been deferred to ROSES-25:

https://tinyurl.com/4dahaavf

Questions concerning C.23 Analog Activities to Support Artemis Lunar 
Operations may be directed to Sarah Noble at 
hq-analogactivities@mail.nasa.gov.

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[NASA] EONS 2024 APPENDIX 13: NASA MUREP ESSR OPPORTUNITY FINAL 
OFFICE HOUR

MUREP Earth Science Systems Research (MUREP ESSR) solicits proposals 
from four-year and two-year colleges/universities designated by the 
U.S. Department of Education as MSIs for the awards. Through novel and 
unique earth science-centric experiential experiences, MUREP ESSR 
seeks to significantly contribute to the broadening of 
underrepresented/underserved and underrepresented minority students 
entering and successfully matriculating through earth science 
disciplines and interdisciplinary fields, and support faculty 
research. NASA MUREP ESSR requires MSI's academic and research 
strengths to assemble and lead a collaborative of partners to explore 
and understand the Earth system, make new discoveries, and enable 
solutions for the benefit of all.

The MUREP ESSR FINAL Office Hour will be held on October 24, 2024, at 
4:00 pm Eastern Time. This is also the deadline to submit questions 
via email.

Your question may have been answered already, so please read through 
the FAQ document. Recordings of the "Pre-proposal Webinar", Earth 
Science Roundtable for Proposers and all of the other "Office Hours" 
are posted on the MUREP ESSR landing page.

Although attendance is optional for the "MUREP ESSR FINAL Office 
Hour", registration is required.

For more information, see NSPIRES:

https://tinyurl.com/44ypey6j

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ASSOCIATE OR ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN ASTRONOMY AT UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND

The University of Maryland, College Park Department of Astronomy is 
now accepting applications for a Tenure Track Associate or Assistant 
Professor. The Department of Astronomy has active observational 
programs in many areas of astronomy, with access to the 4.3-meter 
Lowell Discovery Telescope and the Zwicky Transient Facility, as well 
as successfully competing for time in open facilities such as ALMA and 
high-energy, ultraviolet, optical, and infrared NASA observatories. In 
addition to an in-house computing cluster of over 500 cores, members 
of the Department have access to three larger university clusters, 
including the world-class 'Zaratan'. The Department has close 
collaborations with scientists in our departments of Physics, Geology, 
and Engineering as well as in neighboring institutions such as NASA 
Goddard Space Flight Center (formalized through the Joint Space 
Science Institute), the Applied Physics Laboratory, and the Space 
Telescope Science Institute. 

Candidates should describe in their application materials how their 
plans fit within this unique research environment. The Washington DC - 
Baltimore area is noted as a partner-friendly area due to its many 
employment opportunities in astronomy and other fields.

Best consideration date is November 14, 2024. For more information and 
application instructions please visit:

https://ejobs.umd.edu/postings/123978


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AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY DIVISION FOR PLANETARY SCIENCES FEDERAL 
RELATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE SPLINTER SESSION AT THE 2024 DPS MEETING

The American Astronomical Society (AAS) Division for Planetary 
Sciences (DPS) Federal Relations Subcommittee (FRS) held its annual 
splinter session at the 2024 DPS Meeting on Tuesday, October 8. This 
year's session focused on policy perspectives on Europa Clipper and 
future flagship missions. Panelists from the House Committee on 
Science, Space, and Technology Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee, 
NASA Headquarters, and The Planetary Society provided different space 
policy perspectives on Clipper and future flagships, and interacted 
with DPS community members through Q&A on topics ranging from NASA's 
budget to Decadal Surveys. The session was well received by DPS 
meeting attendees. The splinter session occurred alongside recent 
updates to the AAS DPS public policy website:

https://dps.aas.org/public_policy

The website provides many resources for planetary science advocacy. 

Angela M. Dapremont, AAS DPS FRS Chair (DPS.FRSChair@aas.org)


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SOUTH POLE-AITKEN BASIN FOCUS ISSUE IN PLANETARY SCIENCE JOURNAL
 
We are organizing a focus issue in the Planetary Science Journal (PSJ) 
and soliciting papers related to South Pole - Aitken Basin (SPA) 
science.

SPA is central to a diverse range of outstanding questions in lunar 
geologic history and to planetary science. These include the early 
impact history of the inner Solar System, initial differentiation and 
thermal evolution of the lunar interior, and the nature of the lunar 
dichotomy.

The goal of this Focus Issue is to inspire and compile a diverse set 
of new analyses of the basin, leveraging modern data and updated 
analysis techniques. The collection of scientific work in this focus 
issue will provide essential context for identifying and interpreting 
SPA samples and will help to inform future sample return strategies.

Feel free to reach out to Jenny Whitten (whittenjl@si.edu) or Dan 
Moriarty (daniel.p.moriarty@nasa.gov) (focus issue editors) with any 
questions. PSJ Focus Issues accept and publish papers as they are 
submitted and reviewed; there is no wait for one manuscript upon 
another, and submissions are accepted at any time.

See the PSJ website for more information about the journal:

https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/2632-3338


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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

August 18-21, 2025
Penn State SETI Symposium
https://sites.psu.edu/setisymposium2025
State College, PA

[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.]


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PLANETARY SCIENCE JOURNAL - NEW PAPERS

Direct Links to Open Access Papers

Editor, Faith Vilas
https://psj.aas.org

Near-infrared Spectral Homogeneity of the Didymos System Before and 
After the DART Impact*
Simone Ieva et al. 2024 PSJ 5:225
https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad793e

Constraining Ocean and Ice Shell Thickness on Miranda from Surface 
Geological Structures and Stress Modeling
Caleb Strom et al. 2024 PSJ 5:226
https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad77d7

Candidate Distant Trans-Neptunian Objects Detected by the New Horizons 
Subaru TNO Survey
Wesley C. Fraser et al. 2024 PSJ 5:227
https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad6f9e

Detectability Simulations of a Near-infrared Surface Biosignature on 
Proxima Centauri b with Future Space Observatories
Connor O. Metz et al. 2024 PSJ 5:228
https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad769d

Simulated Solar-wind-induced Space Weathering of Olivine Powders: 
Spectral Alterations in the Ultraviolet, Visible, and Near-infrared
Camilo Jaramillo-Correa et al. 2024 PSJ 5:229
https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad72ee

Surface Properties of the Kalliope-Linus System from ALMA and VLA Data 
Katherine de Kleer et al. 2024 PSJ 5:230
https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad7797

Evaluating the Use of Unoccupied Aircraft Systems (UASs) for Planetary 
Exploration in Mars Analog Terrain
Brett B. Carr et al. 2024 PSJ 5:231
https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad781e