PLANETARY EXPLORATION NEWSLETTER Volume 18, Number 31 (July 28, 2024) PEN Website: https://planetarynews.org Editor: Mark V. Sykes Co-Editors: Matthew R Perry, Alex Morgan Email: pen_editor@psi.edu Twitter: @pen2tweets o-------------------------TABLE OF CONTENTS---------------------------o 1. VIPER Letter Update 2. AGU Session EPO05: Aqueous Processes Across our Solar System - Interpreting How Water Shapes Terrestrial and Planetary Surfaces at Different Spatial Scales 3. AGU Session EPO21: Geomorphic Processes Across Planetary Surfaces 4. AGU Session P041: Understanding Ocean Worlds in the Era of the Europa Clipper and JUICE Missions 5. AGU Session SM024: Three-Dimensional Magnetosphere Structure and Dynamics During Geomagnetic Storms 6. International Conference on Meteoroids, Meteor, and Meteorites: Messengers from Space (MetMeSS 2024) 7. Planetary Meeting Calendar Additions 8. 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 VIPER LETTER UPDATE Dear Friends of VIPER, Thank you so much for your continued support! Around 2,500 people have now signed our open letter, and we hope to reach 5,000 by August 1 (when expressions of interest for the rover are due to NASA). Please encourage your networks to sign the letter here: https://forms.gle/bRzoLN5P66Ge2vzN9 As a reminder folks can always sign in a personal capacity if needed. The Planetary Society, who have been supporting our advocacy effort, [and noted that] at Thursday's meeting of the Senate Appropriations Committee, VIPER was explicitly mentioned and there was cross-party agreement on seeking a constructive route forward for the rover. With best wishes Ben Fernando (on behalf of organisers) 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 AGU SESSION EPO05: AQUEOUS PROCESSES ACROSS OUR SOLAR SYSTEM - INTERPRETING HOW WATER SHAPES TERRESTRIAL AND PLANETARY SURFACES AT DIFFERENT SPATIAL SCALES How does water alter the morphology and composition of planetary landscapes? How can laboratory, modeling, and analog studies complement lander, rover, and orbiter data? Can we infer past climate and habitability on other planets from studying aqueous processes? If you're interested in these questions and any others related to aqueous processes across our Solar System, please submit an abstract to our session by July 31! This session intends to increase collaboration across the Earth and planetary communities and to encourage the exchange of expertise between scientists who use different techniques! Click here to view our flyer: https://tinyurl.com/4epyvxwe Submit your abstract here: https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/prelim.cgi/Session/228365 Conveners: James Haber, Amanda Rudolph, Ross P. Irwin III, Sharon A. Wilson 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 AGU SESSION EPO21: GEOMORPHIC PROCESSES ACROSS PLANETARY SURFACES Please consider submitting an abstract to this session for the December 2024 AGU meeting in DC. We have two excellent invited speakers, Una Schneck and Sam Birch, and hope to showcase a broad range of surface processes across the Solar System. We look forward to hearing about your out-of-this-world research! Submission link: https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/prelim.cgi/Session/229680 Conveners: Karin Lehnigk (Georgia Institute of Technology) Mong-Han Huang (University of Maryland) Gaia Stucky De Quay (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Sam Birch (Brown University) 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 PO41: UNDERSTANDING OCEAN WORLDS IN THE ERA OF THE EUROPA CLIPPER AND JUICE MISSIONS Beneath their icy exteriors, Jupiter's moons Europa and Ganymede, among others in our Solar System, hold vast, salty oceans. Europa appears to be an active world where chemical mixing in the interior ocean may support habitable environments, sustained for billions of years. Arriving to the Jovian system in the early 2030s, NASA's Europa Clipper mission will employ a suite of investigations to investigate Europa and ESA's JUICE mission will study the icy moons of Jupiter with a focus on Ganymede. With both missions present, a rare opportunity exists to perform individual and joint science investigations. This session welcomes presentations on ocean world research that contributes to our understanding of these bodies across the Solar System. Future mission concepts, instrument developments, and planetary protection research are also welcome, highlighting strategies to explore these potentially habitable worlds within sensitive and challenging environments, building on the exploration by JUICE and Europa Clipper. Submit your abstract before July 31! https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/prelim.cgi/Session/228812 Conveners: Kathleen L Craft (JHU APL), M Alexandra Matiella Novak (JHU APL), Olivier Witasse (ESA/ESTEC), Ishan Mishra (NASA JPL), and Willi Exner (ESA/ESTEC) 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 SM024: THREE-DIMENSIONAL MAGNETOSPHERE STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS DURING GEOMAGNETIC STORMS Earth's magnetic field and the solar wind interplanetary magnetic field are coupled through the exchange of mass and energy. This coupling plays out in dramatic fashion during geomagnetic storms, when ground and space-based assets are most susceptible to space weather effects. Topics in this session include: (1) Structure and dynamics of the strongly driven magnetosphere during intense space weather events; and (2) Strongly driven magnetic reconnection and its coupling to the larger scale geospace environment. In-situ space-borne observations (such as MMS, THEMIS, and Van Allen Probes, etc), remote/ground-based measurements, and advanced numerical simulations are invited covering all regions of Earth's magnetosphere. This session's goal is to reveal three-dimensional connections of the dynamic storm-time magnetosphere through multi-point observations and numerical simulations. The submission deadline is July 31, 2024, at 11:59 PM EDT. Go to: https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/prelim.cgi/Session/225153 Student and early-career contributions are especially encouraged! Please feel free to contact the conveners with any questions (emails available at above link): 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 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON METEOROIDS, METEOR, AND METEORITES: MESSENGERS FROM SPACE (METMESS 2024) Physical Research Ahmedabad (PRL), Ahmedabad, India is organizing a three day International Conference on Meteoroids, Meteor and Meteorites (MetMeSS 2024) during Nov 20-22, 2024. For more information, visit the conference website: https://metmess2024.ipsa-asso.in/ The conference will be an excellent opportunity to present and discuss the scientific results and learn about the state-of-the-art advancement particularly in the field of Meteoritics and other allied sciences in Planetary Sciences. The abstract deadline is August 15, 2024. Conveners: Kuljeet K. Marhas and Dwijesh Ray On behalf of MetMeSS-2024 Organising Committee 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 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 November 20-22, 2024 International Conference on Meteoroid, Meteor, and Meteorites: Messengers from Space (MetMeSS-2024) https://metmess2024.ipsa-asso.in/ Ahmedabad, India [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.] 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 PLANETARY SCIENCE JOURNAL - NEW PAPERS Direct Links to Open Access Papers Editor, Faith Vilas https://psj.aas.org Predictions for Sparse Photometry of Jupiter-family Comet Nuclei in the LSST Era A. Donaldson et al. 2024 PSJ 5:162 https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad55c6 Doomed Worlds. I. No New Evidence for Orbital Decay in a Long-term Survey of 43 Ultrahot Jupiters Elisabeth R. Adams et al. 2024 PSJ 5:163 https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad3e80 The Vulcan Mission to Io: Lessons Learned during the 2022 JPL Planetary Science Summer School K. G. Hanley et al. 2024 PSJ 5:164 https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad5841 The Discovery and Evolution of a Possible New Epoch of Cometary Activity by the Centaur (2060) Chiron Matthew M. Dobson et al. 2024 PSJ 5:165 https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad543c BYORP and Dissipation in Binary Asteroids: Lessons from DART Matija Cuk et al. 2024 PSJ 5:166 https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad5d5e Mapping "Brain Terrain" Regions on Mars Using Deep Learning Kyle A. Pearson et al. 2024 PSJ 5:167 https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad5673 Lethal Surface Ozone Concentrations Are Possible on Habitable Zone Exoplanets G. J. 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