Mars Exploration Science Calendar

 

Fourth Quarter, 2005

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Nov. 30-Dec. 2:  Space University (ISU) 10th Annual International Symposium "Space Exploration: Who, What, When, Where, Why?'', Strasbourg, http://www.isunet.edu/EN/191.

Dec. 7-9:  MSL Project Mission and System Review (PMSR), at or near JPL.

Dec. 5-9:  Fall meeting, AGU, San Francisco, California. www.agu.org/meetings, Note special sessions: P03: Atmospheric Dynamics on Mars, P08: Mars Exploration Rovers: One Martian Year of in Situ Planetary Geology, P12: Mars Express, and Mars Atmospheric Evolution and Amazonian Climate Change, plus P07, 06, 04, 17, 18, 19, and 20.

 

2006

 

First Quarter, 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)

Feb. 5-8:  Habitation 2006, Orlando, Florida, (abstracts due 09-01-05) http://habitation2006.us/.  Includes R&D on advanced habitation systems for humans living beyond low Earth orbit.

Feb. 13-17:  AGU Chapman Conference: “Exploring Venus as a Terrestrial Planet”, Sheraton Beach Resort in Key Largo, FL.  http://www.agu.org/meetings/cc06bcall.html

Feb. 27-Mar. 3: 2nd MARS ATMOSPHERE MODELLING AND OBSERVATION workshop, Granada, Spain, The abstract deadline is December, 7, 2005.  http://www-mars.lmd.jussieu.fr/granada2006/

Mar. 5–8: EARTH AND SPACE 2006 Conference - "Engineering, Construction and Operations in Challenging Environments", League City, Texas, USA.  The 2nd NASA/ARO/ASCE Workshop on Granular Materials in Lunar and Martian Exploration will be held as an integral part of the Conference.  http://www.asce.org/conferences/space06/

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

Mar 13-17:  Lunar and Planetary Sci. Conf., Houston, TX (abstract deadline Jan. 10)

Mar. 23-24:  VEXAG Meeting #2, in the Washington DC area

Mar. 26-30. ABSCICON conference, at the Ronald Reagan International Trade Center in Washington, D.C, http://abscicon.arc.nasa.gov.  abstract deadline is January 10, 2006. 

 

Second Quarter, 2006

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Apr. 2-7:  EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria.  Note session session BG7.01/PS8: "Astrobiology and Mars: robotic Mars exploration and the search for evidence of life on Mars", Abstract deadline: 13th January 2006.  http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2006/

Apr. 12-13 or 19-20:  MEPAG meeting, near JPL.  http://mepag.jpl.nasa.gov/

April 18-19:  4th MSL PSG meeting, location TBD (near JPL).

Apr. 24-28:  Workshop on Strategies for Life Detection, International Space Science Institute, Berne, Switzerland.

May 8-12:  International Conference on Impact Cratering in the Solar System, ESTEC, Netherlands.

May 15-16:  IMEWG meeting, ESTEC, Netherlands

May TBD:  Mars Express workshop on meaning of methane on Mars.  ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands. contact Agustin Chicarro

May 22–26:  AGU Joint Assembly, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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

Late June (tentative):  First workshop on MSL landing site considerations.

 

Third Quarter, 2006

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

July, (either July 10-14 or July 24-28):  4th Mars Polar Science Conference.  Organizers = Steve Clifford, Walter Amman.  Location: Switzerland.

Aug. 6-11:  69th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Zürich, Switzerland.  Organizers = Steve Clifford, Walter Amman.  Indication of interest requested by March 3, 2006.  http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/metsoc2006/

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

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

Sept. 27-30:  GEOSPATIAL DATABASES FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, Goa, India, sponsored by International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS).  Will include the next meeting of the ISPRS working group "Extraterrestrial Mapping".  http://www.dlr.de/isprs)

 

Fourth Quarter, 2006

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Oct. 7: Start of Mars solar conjunction

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

Oct. 22-24:  MARTIAN SULFATES AS RECORDERS OF ATMOSPHERIC - FLUID - ROCK INTERACTIONS, at the Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX.  For information contact Chip Shearer.

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

Nov. 8: End of Mars solar conjunction

Nov. (TBD, but within first 15 days):  International Conference on Mars Analogs, Tunisia or southern Italy, (sponsored by ASI).

November:  Start of MRO Primary Science Phase

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

Aug. 6-11: Annual Meteoritical Society Meeting, Zurich, Switzerland, http://www.meteoriticalsociety.org/, contact Dr. Rainer Wieler wieler@erdw.ethz.ch.

 

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)

Feb. 16 – Mar. 8:  Rosetta mission flyby of Mars.  Closest approach is Feb. 26, but spacecraft will be close enough approx. +/- 10 days from that date for some good scientific interest.

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

July 4: Mars solstice (beginning of northern winter)

July 9-13 (tentative):  7th International Mars Science Conference, Caltech, Pasadena, CA.  (sponsored by the Mars Program Office, LPI).

July 10:  Phoenix ORR

Aug. 9-28:  Mars Phoenix Launch period

Sept. (Late):  2nd International Mars Conference, Ischia, Italy (sponsored by ASI)

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

2007 TBD, Annual Meteoritical Society Meeting, Tucson, Arizona. Contact Dr. Tim Jull, http://www.meteoriticalsociety.org/

 

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)

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)

2008 TBD, Annual Meteoritical Society Meeting, Fujiyoshida, Japan, contact Dr. Mitsuru Ebihara, http://www.meteoriticalsociety.org/

 

2009+

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October 2009:  2009 Launch Period Opens

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

2009 TBD, Annual Meteoritical Society Meeting, Nancy, France, contact Marc Chaussidon, Guy Libourel or Bernard Marty.

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

 

 

 

Please send updates, or additional Mars science calendar items, to Dr. David Beaty, David.Beaty@jpl.nasa.gov, 818-354-7968.  This calendar is circulated monthly to the MEPAG e-mail distribution list; if you wish to be added to or deleted from this list, contact Debbie Calderon Debbie.Calderon@jpl.nasa.gov, 818-354-9470.