Mars Exploration Science Calendar
|
|
Fourth Quarter, 2005==================================================== 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==================================================== 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==================================================== 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==================================================== 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==================================================== 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==================================================== 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==================================================== 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+==================================================== 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.