PLANETARY EXPLORATION NEWSLETTER
Volume 12, Number 9 (March 4, 2018)
PEN Website: http://planetarynews.org
Editor: Karen R. Stockstill-Cahill
Co-Editors: Mark V. Sykes, Elisabeth Adams
Email: pen_editor@psi.edu
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1. OPAG Goals Document: Town Hall at LPSC
2. NASA Seeks Experienced Public Policy Experts
3. JMARS Showcase at LPSC
4. Planetary Geomorphology Image of the Month
5. Job Announcement: Research Space Scientist, AST, Planetary Studies
6. Differentiation Conference: Abstract Deadline Extended to March 6
7. PDS - Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Data Release 44
8. Presentations and Summary from Feb 20 MEPAG Virtual Meeting Posted
9. International Venus Conference Abstracts and Registration
10. NASA FDL 2018 Summer Program: Call for Applicants
11. PDS - New Horizons Data Release by the Small Bodies Node
12. PDS - Rosetta Data Release by the Small Bodies Node
13. 2018 Goldschmidt Session: From Source to Sink - Geochemical Sulfur
Cycles on Earth and Mars
14. Magnetospheres of the Outer Planets 2018
15. Lunar Science for Landed Missions Draft Report
16. Workshop: Carbon in the Solar System
17. Planetary Meeting Calendar Additions
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OPAG GOALS DOCUMENT: TOWN HALL AT LPSC
On Wednesday March 21, 2018, 12-1:15, there will be a town hall to
discuss the draft revised goals document for the Outer Planets
Assessment Group (OPAG), in Waterway 1-3. The document is posted at:
https://www.lpi.usra.edu/opag/
- Alfred McEwen, OPAG chair
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NASA SEEKS EXPERIENCED PUBLIC POLICY EXPERTS
NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) has an immediate need for one
or more experienced public policy experts to serve as Policy Analysts
under an Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) appointment. The initial
IPA appointment will be for up to two years, with the possibility of
reappointment up to a total of six years.
All applicants must be career employees from an IPA-eligible
organization (e.g., state and local governments, colleges and
universities, Indian tribal governments, federally funded research and
development centers, and other eligible organizations). Ideal
candidates would have an advanced degree in public policy or a related
field, and have experience working in public policy implementation. All
candidates must possess excellent policy analysis, writing and editing
skills. Prior experience working on space policy is desirable, but not
required. SMD's preferred start date is between July 1, 2018, and
August 15, 2018. More details are available online at:
https://science.nasa.gov/about-us/job-opportunities
Applicants should forward their resume or Curriculum Vitae to Dr. T.
Jens Feeley at jens.feeley@nasa.gov on or before March 9, 2018; if you
have any questions, you can reach Dr. Feeley at 202.358.1714.
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JMARS SHOWCASE AT LPSC
Monday, March 19, 2018
12:00 noon
Grogan's Mill Meeting Room
The Java Mission-planning and Analysis for Remote Sensing (JMARS) team
will host a series of short presentations by scientists who will
describe how they use this free, open-source GIS in their work. The
goal of these talks will be to showcase how to use JMARS to discover
available datasets, filter them to refine relevance, and fuse them with
one another in order to evaluate research hypotheses and produce
publication-quality results.
https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2018/events/?date=2018-03-19
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PLANETARY GEOMORPHOLOGY IMAGE OF THE MONTH
The March image of the month is now available at the IAG's Planetary
Geomorphology web page:
http://planetarygeomorphology.wordpress.com
This month's topic is "Geologically recent glacial melting on Mars".
Contributed by Frances Butcher, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
You can follow IAG Planetary Geomorphology Image of the Month on
Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/PlanetaryGeomorphology
or Twitter: @PlanetGeomorpho
Tjalling de Haas (Chair, IAG Planetary Geomorphology working group)
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JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: RESEARCH SPACE SCIENTIST, AST, PLANETARY STUDIES
Vacancy Announcement Number: GS18D0069
Pay Plan, Series, and Grade: GS-1330-14
Code: 690.1
Duty Station: Greenbelt, MD
Closing Date: 03/29/2018
https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/492472300
The Science & Exploration Directorate, Solar System Exploration
Division, Solar System Exploration Data Services Office (Code 690.1) is
seeking a scientist to support the Planetary Data System (PDS) Project
Office located at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). This
individual will be a key member of a small team providing oversight and
leadership of the PDS that provides a distributed archive of data
products from planetary missions. NASA's PDS archive enables data
archiving from planetary missions to ensure the long-term usability of
NASA data and to stimulate advanced research. More information about
PDS can be found at:
https://pds.nasa.gov
The applicant will also conduct research utilizing data archived in PDS
data holdings, and participate in planetary data projects. This
research may include: big data research and techniques as applied to
data from asteroids and comets; utilization of data from all PDS nodes,
including the Minor Planet Center, to conduct research; and utilization
of data from the PDS archive on other nodes to study solar system
planets and satellites, their surfaces, exospheres, and/or the solar
wind.
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DIFFERENTIATION CONFERENCE: ABSTRACT DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 6
The abstract deadline for Differentiation: Building the Internal
Architecture of Planets has been extended to Tuesday, March 6. The
deadline for requesting early career travel support is also March 6.
The conference will be held in Pasadena CA, May 8-11, with a focus on
understanding the physical and chemical conditions associated with the
formation of crusts, cores, atmospheres, and oceans on both rocky and
volatile-rich bodies. We seek input from many types of studies,
including petrologic, isotopic, trace element, and paleo-magnetic
analyses of samples, geophysical probes of planetary interiors, and
experimental and numerical simulations. Confirmed invited speakers
include Steve Desch, Jasmeet Dhaliwal, Rebecca Fischer, Colin Jackson,
Thomas Kruijer, Carol Raymond, Anat Shahar, Sonia Tikoo, and Bryan
Travis. There will be an optional, pre-conference field trip to an
anorthosite complex in the San Gabriel Mountains on May 7.
Abstracts are limited to ONE page and should be submitted via the
conference website:
https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/differentiation2018/
Travel support for early career individuals and should also be applied
for via the conference website.
For additional information, contact the lead conference convener,
Walter Kiefer (kiefer@lpi.usra.edu).
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PDS - MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER DATA RELEASE 44
The Planetary Data System (PDS) is pleased to announce a new delivery of
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) data for the following instruments:
CRISM
CTX
HiRISE
MARCI
MCS
RSS
SHARAD
SPICE
This release includes SHARAD EDR data from ASI with coverage through
August 19, 2017. The SHARAD EDR data set is now up to date.
There is no derived gravity data in this release.
In general, MRO Release 44 includes data collected from
May 9, 2017, through August 8, 2017. The release includes
HiRISE data from October 31, 2017, to February 2, 2018.
To access the above data:
https://pds.nasa.gov/tools/subscription_service/SS-20180301.shtml
To access the latest PDS Data Releases:
https://pds.nasa.gov/tools/subscription_service/SS-Release.shtml
All available PDS data may be found at:
https://pds.nasa.gov/tools/data-search/
For further information, see the PDS Home Page:
https://pds.nasa.gov/
The PDS Team
Mailto: pds_operator@jpl.nasa.gov
Phone: (818) 393-7165
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PRESENTATIONS AND SUMMARY FROM FEB 20 MEPAG VIRTUAL MEETING POSTED
The MEPAG and NASA presentations given at the MEPAG virtual meeting
held February 20th along with the Meeting Summary are now available on
the meeting website:
https://mepag.jpl.nasa.gov/meetings.cfm?expand=vm1
And we'd like to remind folks about MEPAG Meeting 36, scheduled for
Tuesday-Thursday, April 3-5, 2018, at the Crystal City Marriott at
Reagan National Airport. We aim to finish by 3pm ET on Thursday, and
this face-to-face meeting will also be webcast. Hotel block and
registration information is listed below. We expect to distribute a 2nd
Informational Circular, including program information, in a few weeks.
If you have any meeting questions or comments, please send them to
mepagmeetingqs@jpl.nasa.gov.
If you intend to attend MEPAG Meeting 36 in-person, please register at:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/
1FAIpQLSf5ryntC2pTy7D3rJTsXdRoibOMDVyaYmRYR0Hsb4lDf0BSSA/viewform
Registration is not required for attendance, but aids with meeting
planning and name badge printing. The online registration will be open
until March 23.
A hotel room block has been made available at $253/night (GSA rate) for
the nights of April 2-4 at the meeting venue (room block will be open
through March 12). To make a reservation at this rate, please use the
following link:
http://www.marriott.com/meeting-event-hotels/group-corporate-travel/
groupCorp.mi?resLinkData=Jet%20Propulsion%20Labratories%20Meeting%
20April%202018%5EWASCC%60JETJETR%60253%60USD%60false%604%604/2/18%604/5
/18%603/12/18&app=resvlink&stop_mobi=yes
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INTERNATIONAL VENUS CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS AND REGISTRATION
Abstract Submission and Registration for the International Venus
Conference to be held in Niseko, Hokkaido, Japan from 11 September to
14 September 2018 is now open. A small fund for travel support
primarily intended for, but not limited to, Early Career attendees is
available. Please visit this website for any updated registration and
abstract submission information:
https://www.cps-jp.org/~akatsuki/venus2018/registration.html
Following the successful series of Venus conferences (La Thuile,
Aussois, Sicily, and Oxford), the Akatsuki team and community in Japan
are planning to host a Venus conference in 2018. The dates will be
11-14 September 2018 and the location will be a beautiful resort in
Hokkaido (it will not be skiing season though). The conference is
supported by the Fujihara Foundation of Science, so it is entitled "The
74th Fujihara Seminar".
The conference is intended to cover all areas of Venus science with
special focus on new results obtained from Japan's Venus Climate
Orbiter "Akatsuki". Results from previous missions, from ground-based
observations, numerical computations, and theoretical works are all
welcome.
More info at Conference website:
https://www.cps-jp.org/~akatsuki/venus2018/
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NASA FDL 2018 SUMMER PROGRAM: CALL FOR APPLICANTS
NASA Frontier Development Lab (FDL) is an applied Artificial
Intelligence research accelerator that pairs researchers from the space
sciences with data scientists for an intense 8-week concentrated study
to apply AI to challenges important to space exploration and humankind.
FDL runs between June 25th - August 17, 2018.
We are looking for doctorate or post-doc researchers interested in the
following challenge areas:
Space Weather
Astrobiology
Space Resources
Additional challenges looking at orbital debris and exoplanets may be
added, pending partner interest.
This year we are also running a challenge in partnership with the
European Space Agency, which will run in parallel. FDL Europe's focus
will be on Earth Observation.
FDL is hosted by the SETI Institute and NASA Ames in Mountain View, CA;
and ESA Esrin in Europe. Compute and AI advisory is provided by IBM,
Intel, Nvidia, Lockheed Martin and Google.
Researchers will receive a stipend and are provided with accommodation
for the duration.
Applications will be accepted until the closing date of the 3rd of
April, although we encourage you to apply sooner to ensure a place.
To learn more, please visit the FDL website at:
http://frontierdevelopmentlab.org
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PDS - NEW HORIZONS DATA RELEASE BY THE SMALL BODIES NODE
Small Bodies Node of the NASA Planetary Data System is pleased to
announce a new release of the New Horizons data. It contains the
remaining (P3) Pluto Flyby data (level 2 and 3/4) for the following
instruments:
Alice
LEISA
LORRI
MVIC
PEPSSI
SWAP
SDC
The data, as well as mission and instrument information, are available
at:
http://pdssbn.astro.umd.edu/
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PDS - ROSETTA DATA RELEASE BY THE SMALL BODIES NODE
Small Bodies Node of the NASA Planetary Data System is pleased to
announce a new release of the following Rosetta data:
Orbiter
MIRO: Prelanding calibrated data
MIDAS: Prelanding, Escort 1-4 and Extension 1-3 calibrated data
VIRTIS: Extension 2 calibrated data
OSIRIS: Escort 4 and Extension 1 up to MTP28 raw and calibrated data
RPC_LAP: Prelanding, Escort 1-4, and Extension 1-3 raw data
RSI: Escort 2 and 3 data
Lander
MUPUS: Post-Hibernation, Rebound and First Science Sequence raw and
calibrated data
SD2: the data from Commissioning to First Science Sequence
The data as well as mission and instrument information, are available
at:
http://pdssbn.astro.umd.edu/
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2018 GOLDSCHMIDT SESSION: "FROM SOURCE TO SINK - GEOCHEMICAL SULFUR
CYCLES ON EARTH AND MARS"
We would like you to consider submitting an abstract and attending the
following technical session at Goldschmidt in Boston this year:
"Session 11d: From Source to Sink - Geochemical Sulfur Cycles on Earth
and Mars" during the Goldschmidt Conference that will take place on Aug
12-17, 2018 in Boston, Massachusetts. The abstract deadline is March
30th, 2018.
https://goldschmidt.info/2018/program/programViewThemes
We hope that our session will be a great opportunity to gather
researchers from terrestrial and planetary science disciplines to
discuss a verity of topics related to geochemical sulfur cycles on
Earth and Mars.
Please, share this information with your colleagues and students who
might be interested in. We hope to see many of you in Boston.
Session Chairs:
Anna Szynkiewicz, University of Tennessee
Briony Horgan, Purdue University
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MAGNETOSPHERES OF THE OUTER PLANETS 2018
July 9-13
LASP, Boulder CO
Focusing on Cassini proximal orbits of Saturn, Juno data at Jupiter.
http://lasp.colorado.edu/home/mop/mop2018/
Abstract deadline: 1st April
Registration deadline: 25th June
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LUNAR SCIENCE FOR LANDED MISSIONS DRAFT REPORT
The draft report for the Lunar Science for Landed Missions workshop is
now available at:
https://lunar-landing.arc.nasa.gov
Community input is solicited, focusing on the sites and other material
presented at the workshop and summarized in this report. Please send
comments/suggested changes to Erica Jawin at erica_jawin@brown.edu by
no later than 6pm EST, March 12, 2018.
Greg Schmidt and Clive Neal, workshop co-chairs
Erica Jawin, Sarah Valencia, Ryan Watkins and Jim Crowell, lead authors
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WORKSHOP: CARBON IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM
April 25-27, 2018
Denver, CO
This workshop focuses on results from the Pluto system, the Saturn
system, Mercury, and nearly all points in between: how do carbonaceous
species evolve? how to recognize them? Papers covering modeling, lab
and observational results are welcome.
There is no registration fee and the workshop will not have an assigned
NCTS#.
https://carbon-workshop.arc.nasa.gov
Reminder! Abstracts will be due March 6.
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PLANETARY MEETING CALENDAR ADDITIONS
Posted at http://planetarynews.org/meetings.html
No new meetings
[Editor Note: If there is a planetary-related meeting, conference or
workshop of which your colleagues should be aware, please send the
date, title, URL and location to pen_editor@psi.edu.]
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