Mars Exploration Program Science Calendar

First Quarter, 2005

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Jan. 9-13: American Astronomical Society meeting, San Diego, CA.  http://www.aas.org/

Jan 13-15:  Kick off Intl Year of Physics, UNESCO Paris

Jan 30-Feb. 1:  First Space Exploration Conference, Disney’s Contemporary Resort, Orlando, FL.

Jan. 31-Feb. 1:  First MSL PSG meeting.  Note--the week before is reserved for project orientation meetings with the new MSL PIs.

Feb. 2-3: Workshop on Granular Materials in Lunar and Martian Exploration, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, http://weboflife.nasa.gov/regolith.htm, Contact = Philip Metzger.

Feb. 3:  2001 Mars Odyssey PSG, at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

Feb. 7-10: Workshop on Low-Frequency Radar Investigations of Planetary and Terrestrial Environments, at LPI in Houston.  Abs. deadline = 11-15-04; contact: Essam Heggy (heggy@lpi.usra.edu).  http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/radar2005/

Feb. 7-11:  Mars Phoenix mission PDR.  Location: Pasadena area.

Feb. 16-17:  MEPAG meeting, Washington, DC.  http://mepag.jpl.nasa.gov/meeting/feb-05/index.html

Feb. 21-25:  1st Mars Express Science Conference, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands.  Contact = Agustin Chicarro.

March 12-13: Vernadsky-Brown Microsymposium 41, Climate Change in Mars History:  Geological Evidence and Implications for Climate Evolution, LPI, Houston, TX. Contact Jim Head. 

Mar 14-18:  Lunar and Planetary Sci. Conf., Houston, TX (abstracts due 01-11-05).  http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2005/

Mar. 22: Mars equinox (beginning of northern fall)

Mar. 15 (tentative, and likely to change):  Mars Phoenix mission confirmation review.  Location TBD

Second Quarter, 2005

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April 11-14:  NAI 2005, Biennial Meeting of the NASA Astrobiology Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder

Apr 12: MRO Pre-Ship Review

April 19-21: ESTEC, ESA Cosmic Vision workshop & ESLAB

Apr 21-22:  Phoenix Science Team Meeting #6, Tuscon, AZ

April 24-29, European Geosciences Union (EGU) 2nd General Assembly, Vienna, Austria.  Abs. deadline = 01-21-05.  http://www.copernicus.org/EGU/ga/egu05/index.htm

May 10-11 (tentative):  IMEWG meeting, Montreal, Canada.  Hosted by CSA (contact = Alain Berinstain)

May 12-13:  5^th Canadian Space Exploration Workshop, Montreal, Canada. 

May, 22-25:  3rd International Workshop on SPACE MICROBIOLOGY, Mol, Belgium.  http://www.sckcen.be/sckcen_en/activities/conf/conferences/space_microbiology/index.shtml.

May 22-26:  15th Humans in Space Symposium, Graz, Austria.  http://www.uni-graz.at/space2005/

May 23-27:  AGU Joint Assembly, New Orleans, Louisiana.

May 23-Jun 1:  "Planet Mars II" Workshop, Les Houches (France).  Contact = Therese Encrenaz (Therese.Encrenaz@obspm.fr).

May 29-Jun. 2: American Astronomical Society meeting, Minneapolis, MN.  http://www.aas.org/

May 31-Jun. 3:  WORKSHOP ON OXYGEN IN ASTEROIDS AND METEORITES, Flagstaff, Arizona.  (abstracts due 05-31-05). 

Jun 15: MRO Operational Readiness Review

June 20-24: Singapore, 2nd Asian Oceanian Geophysical Society assembly AOGS

June 28-29 (tentative):  Mars Phoenix 2nd landing site workshop (open)

Third Quarter, 2005

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July 11-15:  The Role of Volatiles and Atmospheres on Martian Impact Cratering, Applied Physics Lab, Johns Hopkins Univ, Laurel, MD, abs. deadline = 04-20-05.  http://www.marscraterconsortium.nau.edu/

July 29: MRO PSG

Aug. TBD:  MTO (Mars Telecommunications Orbiter) PMSR.

Aug 10-30: MRO Launch Window

Aug. 16: Mars solstice (beginning of northern winter)

Aug. 31 (approx.):  Mars Phoenix mission CDR.  Location TBD

Sep. 4-9: AAS 37^th Division of Planetary Sciences Meeting, Cambridge, England, http://www.dps2005.com/

Sept. 12-16, 68^th Annual Meteoritical Society Meeting, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, USA, abs. deadline = 06-08-05. Contact Dr. Hap McSween. http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/metsoc2005/

Sep. 26-30: Workshop on Dust in Planetary Systems, Lihue (Kaua'i), Hawai'i, http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/dust2005/

Fourth Quarter, 2005

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Oct. 16-19:  Geological Society of America national meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah.  http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/

Oct 17-21: Fukuoka J, Intl Astronautical Congress

Oct. 24-28:  Protostars and Planets V, Waikoloa, Hawaii.  http://www2.ifa.hawaii.edu/CSPF/ppv/ppv.html

Nov. 7: Mars at opposition

Dec. 5-9:  Fall meeting, AGU, San Francisco, California. www.agu.org/meetings

2006

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Jan. 8-12 2006: American Astronomical Society meeting, Washington, DC.  http://www.aas.org/

Jan. 22: Mars equinox (beginning of northern spring)

Mar 10-16: MRO MOI , Start of Aerobraking Phase

Mar TBD:  Lunar and Planetary Sci. Conf., Houston, TX (abstracts due TBD)

Apr. 2-7:  EGU General Assembly, Vienna , Austria

June 4-6: American Astronomical Society meeting, Calgary, Alberta.  http://www.aas.org/

June 2006:  MTO (Mars Telecommunications Orbiter) PDR

July 16-23:  36th COSPAR SCIENTIFIC ASSEMBLY, China World Trade Center, Beijing, China.  http://www.copernicus.org/COSPAR/COSPAR.html

Summer, 2006:  4^th Mars Polar Science Conference.  Organizer = Steve Clifford.  Tentatively thinking about holding it in Switzerland.

July 2006:  MSL PDR

Aug. 8: Mars solstice (beginning of northern summer)

September:  End of MRO Aerobraking Phase; transition to Primary Science Orbit

Oct. 7: Start of Mars solar conjunction

Fall 2006 (date TBD):  International Mars Conference, Ischia, Italy (sponsored by ASI).

Oct. 8–13:  38th Annual Meeting DPS 2006, Pasadena, CA, LOC: Alan Harris, SPC: Kevin Baines.  http://www.aas.org/~dps/meetings.html

Oct. 22-25:  Geological Society of America national meeting, Philadelphia, Penn.  http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/

Nov. 8: End of Mars solar conjunction

November:  Start of MRO Primary Science Phase

Dec. 11-15:  Fall meeting, AGU, San Francisco, California. www.agu.org/meetings

2006 TBD: Annual Meteoritical Society Meeting, Zurich, Switzerland, contact Dr. Rainer Wieler.

2007

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Jan. 7-11: American Astronomical Society meeting, Washington, DC.  http://www.aas.org/

Feb. 8: Mars equinox (beginning of northern fall)

Mar TBD:  Lunar and Planetary Sci. Conf., Houston, TX (abstracts due TBD)

March (TBD):  Rosetta mission flyby of Mars.

April 2007:  MSL CDR

May/June: American Astronomical Society meeting, Hawaii.  http://www.aas.org/

June:  MTO (Mars Telecommunications Orbiter) CDR

July 4: Mars solstice (beginning of northern winter)

Summer, 2007 (tentative):  7^th International Mars Science Conference, Caltech, Pasadena, CA.  Organized by the Mars Program Office.

July 10:  Phoenix ORR

2007 TBD, Annual Meteoritical Society Meeting, Tucson, Arizona. Contact Dr. Tim Jull

Aug. 9-28:  Mars Phoenix Launch window

Oct., 2nd week:  39th Annual Meeting DPS, Orlando, FL.  http://www.aas.org/~dps/meetings.html

Oct. 28-31:  Geological Society of America national meeting, Denver, CO.  http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/

Dec. 10: Mars equinox (beginning of northern spring)

Dec. 10-14:  Fall meeting, AGU, San Francisco, California. www.agu.org/meetings

Dec. 24: Mars at opposition

2008

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Mar TBD:  Lunar and Planetary Sci. Conf., Houston, TX (abstracts due TBD)

May 18 – June 9:  Mars Phoenix arrival window  

June 25: Mars solstice (beginning of northern summer)

April 2008:  MTO (Mars Telecommunications Orbiter) ARR

Oct. 26-30:  Geological Society of America national meeting, Chicago, IL.  http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/

November:  End of MRO Primary Science Phase; transition to Relay Phase

Nov. 18: Start of Mars solar conjunction

Dec. 15-19:  Fall meeting, AGU, San Francisco, California.  www.agu.org/meetings

Dec. 24: End of Mars solar conjunction

Dec. 26: Mars equinox (beginning of northern fall)

2009+

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October 2009:  MSL and MTO Launch Period Opens

18-21 Oct. 2009:  Geological Society of America national meeting, Portland, Oregon.  http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/      

31 Oct. – 3 Nov. 2010:  Geological Society of America national meeting, Denver, Colorado.  http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/

9-12 Oct. 2011:  Geological Society of America national meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota