PLANETARY EXPLORATION NEWSLETTER Volume 18, Number 15 (April 7, 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. Join The Planetary Society's Day of Action in Washington, D.C. on April 28-29, 2024 2. Gerald A. Soffen Memorial Fund Spring 2024 Travel Grant 3. Annual GSA Planetary Science Division Button Contest 4. [NASA] PDS: Mars 2020 Mission Release 9 5. [NASA] PDS: Aperiodic PDS Data Releases in 2024.03 6. [NASA] PDS: Odyssey Data Release 87 7. Planetary Geomorphology Image of the Month 8. Drones for Planetary Science: Session and White Paper Invitation 9. Two Open Positions at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, TU Delft, the Netherlands 10. Post-Doctoral Position in Lunar Studies 11. Apply for the San Antonio, TX Culturally Inclusive Planetary Engagement Workshop 12. Ice Giant Systems Seminar Series: April 9, Dr. Henrik Melin (University of Leicester) 13. Mercury 2024 Meeting Abstract and Registration Info 14. Planetary Meeting Calendar Additions 15. 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 JOIN THE PLANETARY SOCIETY'S DAY OF ACTION IN WASHINGTON, D.C. ON APRIL 28-29, 2024 The Day of Action is The Planetary Society's premier advocacy event. Following a successful return to in-person advocacy in 2023, this year's event will include a training on Sunday, April 28, and a full day of scheduled and drop-in meetings on Monday, April 29. The deadline to register is Monday, April 15! The Day of Action is an opportunity for members of the community to take direct action to support space science, research, and exploration. In-person meetings are the most effective way to defend science priorities and advance our shared goals. As NASA faces major budget cuts after Congress already slashed the agency's science budget in 2024, now is the time to stand united for a robust and balanced space science program. Anyone is welcome to participate, whether you're an experienced space advocate or new to the endeavor. The Planetary Society will provide you with the training, resources, and scheduled meetings to enable you to channel your passion and expertise into successful grassroots advocacy. Go to the website for more information and to register: https://planetary.org/dayofaction 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 GERALD A. SOFFEN MEMORIAL FUND SPRING 2024 TRAVEL GRANT The Gerald A. Soffen Memorial Fund is pleased to announce the Spring 2024 Travel Grant application opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students pursuing studies in fields of space science and engineering. The Travel Grants enable student recipients to attend professional conferences to present their research. Recipients may use the Grant for either virtual or in-person conferences. The Soffen Fund will award up to $1000 in total, with no individual award greater than $500, to cover expenses related to presenting research at either a virtual or in-person conference. The number of awards will depend on applicants' needs. The Spring 2024 Travel Grant application deadline is April 12, 2024. Jerry Soffen, a biologist by training, led a distinguished career in NASA, including serving as the Project Scientist for Viking and as an architect for the NASA Astrobiology Institute. The Travel Grant continues Jerry's dedication to educating and involving future generations in space science and engineering pursuits. The electronic application materials and instructions are located on the Soffen Fund website: https://soffenfund.org Questions regarding the application or application process may be sent to: ec@nasa-academy.org 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 ANNUAL GSA PLANETARY SCIENCE DIVISION BUTTON CONTEST Your design could be featured at GSA and LPSC! Rules: (1) Design must be completed within a 6 cm diameter circle. (2) Letters "PGD" and year "2024" must be included as a central feature in the artwork. (3) Group submissions are acceptable. (4) Any media/software can be used as long is the scanned image sent to the PGD is clear. All submissions must be sent as a PDF and JPEG (min 600 dpi) to mdeahn@purdue.edu (Margaret Deahn) by May 31, 2024. Submission must include brief biographical information about the artist and a brief (500-character limit) description of the artwork. All PGD members may vote from the semi-finalists' buttons (as determined by PGD officers) starting June 7, 2024. Winner will be announced August 1, 2024. The winning artist will need to provide appropriate images for button and t-shirt printing after the design is announced on August 1. 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: MARS 2020 MISSION RELEASE 9 The NASA Planetary Data System announces Release 9 of data from the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover mission to Mars. This release contains raw, calibrated, and derived data products covering sols 900-1019 of the mission, August 31, 2023, through January 1, 2024. 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 - 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 access the latest PDS Data Releases, please visit the following link: 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, see the PDS Home Page: https://pds.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 [NASA] PDS: APERIODIC PDS DATA RELEASES IN 2024.03 In March 2024, PDS ingested and made available the following data, none of which were regularly released with an ongoing mission: - 2024.03.21 Galileo Photopolarimeter Pre-Jupiter Derived w/SL-9 impact - 2024.03.06 Galileo NIMS Hot Spot Spectral Radiance - 2024.02.29 Galileo Orbiter at Jupiter Magnetometer high res calibrated - 2024.02.28 Lunar Prospector Electron Reflectometer 3D spectrum - 2024.02.28 Lunar Prospector Electron Reflectometer high res - 2024.02.28 Lunar Prospector Electron Reflectometer low res To access those data: https://pds.nasa.gov/datasearch/subscription-service/SS-20240331.shtml To access all data archived in PDS: https://pds.nasa.gov 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] PDS: ODYSSEY DATA RELEASE 87 The NASA Planetary Data System announces Release 87 of data from the Mars Odyssey Orbiter. This release contains raw, calibrated, and derived data products nominally covering the time period July 1, 2023, through September 30, 2023, for the GRS/HEND/NS suite, and June 1, 2023, through August 30, 2023, for THEMIS. Note: HEND data have been delayed. Since the previous Mars Odyssey release, one raw Radio Science data volumes has been released, with data covering the period November 1, 2023 to December 31, 2023. GRS/HEND/NS and Radio Science data are archived at the PDS Geosciences Node, THEMIS data at the THEMIS Data Node, and SPICE data at the PDS NAIF Node. The data may be accessed from https://pds-geosciences.wustl.edu/missions/odyssey/ or for a more dataset-oriented view https://pds.nasa.gov/datasearch/subscription-service/SS-20240401.shtml To access the latest PDS Data Releases, please visit the following link: 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/ Odyssey releases occur every three months. The next release is scheduled for July 1, 2024. For further information, see the PDS Home Page: https://pds.nasa.gov/ 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 GEOMORPHOLOGY IMAGE OF THE MONTH The April image of the month is now available at the IAG's Planetary Geomorphology web page: https://planetarygeomorphology.wordpress.com This month's topic is 'The effect of ice on the degradation of impact craters on Ceres', contributed by Noe Le Becq, PhD candidate at Laboratoire de Planetologie et Geosciences, Nantes (France). You can follow IAG Planetary Geomorphology Image of the Month on X (former Twitter): @PlanetGeomorpho or Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PlanetaryGeomorphology Best wishes, Lonneke Roelofs (Chair, IAG Planetary Geomorphology working group) 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 DRONES FOR PLANETARY SCIENCE: SESSION AND WHITE PAPER INVITATION Drone based research capabilities and future plans on Mars, on Titan, on Venus and on Earth analogues are changing and growing fast. We are planning a session dedicated to various drone based planetary research activities at the EPSC 2024 meeting in Berlin (8-13 September), focusing on the methodology of research, technology aspects and scientific potentials. Researchers and engineers interested in drone and payload development are welcome to submit abstracts for oral or poster presentations at the conference website: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC2024/sessionprogramme The session will be accompanied with a White Paper compilation meeting to produce a joint overview publication on the perspectives of drones in planetary science for the next decade. All participants are welcome as co-authors including topics of their submission and beyond it. For further information please contact: kereszturiakos@gmail.com 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 TWO OPEN POSITIONS AT THE FACULTY OF AEROSPACE ENGINEERING, TU DELFT, THE NETHERLANDS In the group of Dr. Edgar Steenstra, a laboratory-based PhD position and 2 Year Postdoc position are available. These positions are part of the ERC StG VenusVolAtmos with which we aim to constrain the chemical links and feedback mechanisms between the interior, surface and atmosphere of Venus using experiments and models. These experiments will be conducted in the new high-pressure/temperature lab that is currently being built as part of the Delft Planetary Labs (DPL) at TU Delft. PhD Position: Experimental Investigations of Volcanism and Rock Weathering on Venus The successful applicant will conduct lava degassing and weathering experiments on Venus surface rocks under a controlled high-pressure, high-temperature atmosphere and develop thermodynamic models to quantitatively describe these processes. Post-Doctoral Position: Experimental Investigations of Atmosphere-Surface Interactions on Venus This position is focused on both the experimental and numerical investigation of surface weathering processes on Venus and the applicability of the latter to understand Venus' enigmatic evolution. For more information, please visit: https://tinyurl.com/2vfdtcw6 https://tinyurl.com/2umbs8tm 10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10 POST-DOCTORAL POSITION IN LUNAR STUDIES The Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) is a leading research institute in the field of planetary magnetospheres and solar wind interactions with a focus on particle measurements. The tasks include science data analysis from IRF's particle instruments onboard lunar missions Chandrayaan-1 and Chang'e-4 and collaboration with our simulation group working on the exosphere dynamics and global moon-solar wind interaction models. For more information: https://www.irf.se/vacancies 11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11 APPLY FOR THE SAN ANTONIO, TX CULTURALLY INCLUSIVE PLANETARY ENGAGEMENT WORKSHOP Planetary scientists and astrobiologists are invited to apply to attend the Culturally Inclusive Planetary Engagement professional development workshop at the San Antonio Public Library in San Antonio, TX, May 16-18, 2024. During the three-day workshop, participants engage with local informal (out-of-school time) educators to discuss and model effective strategies for engaging Black and Latinx communities in planetary science. In addition, participants conduct hands-on activities and co-create a public engagement in collaboration with a local youth-serving organization. The event takes place on the third day of the workshop and allows participants the opportunity to practice engagement strategies discussed in the workshop. During the workshop, participants: - Explore the importance of building equitable partnerships with organizations, subject matter experts, and informal educators serving Black and Latinx audiences - Learn evidence-based culturally relevant authentic approaches to nurture connections with Black and Latinx individuals - Practice planetary science engagement approaches through a culturally inclusive lens The application deadline is 5:00 P.M. Central, May 2, 2024. Space is limited to 10 scientists. Stipends are available for participants able to accept them. More information, including the application, is available at: https://www.lpi.usra.edu/planetary-reach/workshops/sanantonio Please direct questions to Andy Shaner: shaner@lpi.usra.edu. 12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12 ICE GIANT SYSTEMS SEMINAR SERIES: APRIL 9, DR. HENRIK MELIN (UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER) Date/Time: April 9, 11am ET Speaker: Dr. Henrik Melin (University of Leicester) Topic: The ever-changing ionosphere of Uranus The Ice Giant Systems Seminar Series showcases recent developments in scientific topics covering all aspects of the ice giant systems, including atmospheres, satellites, rings, magnetic fields, interior structures, and science related to formation and evolution. To access the virtual seminar, view the seminar schedule, and "Stay Informed", visit the series website here: https://neptuneodyssey.jhuapl.edu/Events/ Mallory Kinczyk & Jodi Berdis 13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13 MERCURY 2024 MEETING ABSTRACT AND REGISTRATION INFO Thank you for waiting for the updates on Mercury 2024 meeting on 4-7 June 2024 in Kyoto, Japan. Now the abstract submission and in-person registration are open! All information is available at the web page: https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/bepicolombo-mercury2024/home Abstract submission: Deadline: 30 April 2024, 23:59 JST / 16:59 CEST / 10:59 EDT https://tinyurl.com/ymv2r325 Presentations can be made only in person. Registration (in-person attendance): Deadline: 16 May 2024, 23:59 JST / 16:59 CEST / 10:59 EDT Registration fee: 15,000JPY (~90 Euro/USD) https://web-register.jp/mercury2024/en/login/ If you have any questions, please contact the LOC: mw2024-loc@mail2.adm.kyoto-u.ac.jp Best regards, Mercury 2024 SOC & LOC 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 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 June 4-6, 2024 European Astrobiology Institute General Assembly https://europeanastrobiology.eu/2024-eai-general-assembly/ Frankfurt, Germany September 22-25,2024 Geological Society of America Connects 2024 https://community.geosociety.org/gsa2024/home Anaheim, CA October 6-10, 2024 56th Annual Meeting of the AAS Division for Planetary Sciences https://dps.aas.org/meetings/current Boise, ID December 9-13, 20204 American Geophysical Union https://www.agu.org/annual-meeting Washington, DC [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.] 15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15 PLANETARY SCIENCE JOURNAL - NEW PAPERS Direct Links to Open Access Papers Editor, Faith Vilas https://psj.aas.org Pre-impact Albedo Map and Photometric Properties of the (65803) Didymos Asteroid Binary System from DART and Ground-based Data B. J. Buratti et al. 2024 PSJ 5:83 https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad2b60 Rotational Study of 5:3 and 7:4 Resonant Objects within the Main Classical Trans-Neptunian Belt Audrey Thirouin and Scott S. Sheppard 2024 PSJ 5:84 https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad2933 Silicate Mineralogy from Vis-NIR Reflectance Spectra David Korda and Tomas Kohout 2024 PSJ 5:85 https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad2685 Expanding Mars's Climate Modeling: Interpretable Machine Learning for Modeling Mars Science Laboratory Relative Humidity Nour Abdelmoneim et al. 2024 PSJ 5:86 https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad25fd JWST Near-infrared Spectroscopy of the Lucy Jupiter Trojan Flyby Targets: Evidence for OH Absorption, Aliphatic Organics, and CO2 Ian Wong et al. 2024 PSJ 5:87 https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad2fc3 The Bombardment History of the Giant Planet Satellites William F. Bottke et al. 2024 PSJ 5:88 https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad29f4 The Population of Young Craters on the Moon: New Catalog and Spatial and Temporal Analysis Rebecca R. Ghent et al. 2024 PSJ 5:89 https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad293d The Distribution of Impactor Core Material During Large Impacts on Earth-like Planets Jonathan P. Itcovitz et al. 2024 PSJ 5:90 https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad2ea4 The Unusual Brightness Phase Curve of (65803) Didymos P. H. Hasselmann et al. 2024 PSJ 5:91 https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad2add Rocks with Extremely Low Thermal Inertia at the OSIRIS-REx Sample Site on Asteroid Bennu Andrew J. Ryan et al. 2024 PSJ 5:92 https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad2dff Catalog of Ultraviolet Bright Stars: Strategies for UV Occultation Measurements, Planetary Illumination Modeling, and Sky Map Analyses Using Hybrid IUE-Kurucz Spectra Michael A. Velez et al. 2024 PSJ 5:93 https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad0e70 *********************************************************************** * 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. Or * 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. Alternatively, the editorial staff will * create one for you. 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