Mars Exploration Science Calendar

Fourth Quarter, 2005

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Oct. 3-4: 8th Mars Crater Consortium (MCC) meeting, at the US Geological Survey in Flagstaff, contact = Nadine Barlow (Nadine.Barlow@NAU.EDU)

Oct. 3-5:  2nd Joint ESA/NASA Planetary Protection Course, at the Biozentrum, Basel, Switzerland. Contact: Gerhard.Kminek@esa.int.

Oct. 5-6:  Workshop on a possible Mars Environmental Geographic Information System, SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA.  For information, contact Marguerite Syvertson (Marguerite.L.Syvertson@jpl.nasa.gov).

Oct. 10-12:  5th EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON ASTROBIOLOGY, Budapest, Hungary. http://www.mbft.hu/eana/index.html

Oct. 10-12:  42nd Vernadsky/Brown Microsymposium on Comparative Planetology, Moscow, Russia, Vernadsky Inst.e, http://www.geokhi.ru/~planetology/Micro.html.

Oct. 11-13:  IAA 6th Int. Conf. on Low-Cost Planetary Missions (ICLCPM 2005), Kyoto, Japan.  http://iclcpm2005.isas.jaxa.jp.

Oct. 12-13:  Workshop on organic analysis via TEGA. If interested, contact Bill Boynton wboynton@lpl.arizona.edu.  Open to any members of the general scientific community who may be able to contribute.

Oct. 16-19:  Geological Society of America national meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah.  http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/.  Note special sessions #72 Sedimentology Goes to Mars and #123 Mars Analogue Research and Instrument Field Testing

Oct 17-21: Intl Astronautical Congress, Fukuoka Japan.  http://www.iac2005.org/,  Note sessions A.1.7, Robotics and Human Missions to Mars and beyond: Challenges in Astrobiology and Planetary Protection; A3. Mars Exploration; A5. Integrated approaches to the Exploration and Utilization of the Moon and Mars, A5. Human and Robotic Partnerships to Realize Space Exploration Goals

Oct. 24-25:  THEMIS Data User's Workshop, ASU, Tempe, Arizona, contact = Phil Christensen.  Indication of interest due by Sept. 15.

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

Oct. 25-28:  LEAG Conference on Lunar Exploration and Space Resources Round Table, Houston, TX, South Shore Harbor hotel, http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/leag2005/

Oct. 26-28:  National Workshop on Astrobiology: Search of Life in the Solar System, Capri, Italy, http://www.na.astro.it/meetings/astrobiology, contact = John R. Brucato,  brucato@na.astro.it. 

Oct. 31-Nov. 1:  3rd MSL PSG meeting, at the Embassy Suites, Arcadia, CA (near JPL).  Halloween costumes may be required.  (This hotel is within walking distance of the Holiday Inn, Monrovia, where the MEPAG meeting will be).

Nov. 1:  Mars Odyssey Project Science group (PSG) meeting, Holiday Inn, Monrovia, CA (near JPL). 

Nov. 1:  MRO Project Science group (PSG) meeting, Holiday Inn, Monrovia, CA (near JPL). 

Nov. 2-3:  MEPAG meeting, Holiday Inn, Monrovia, CA (near JPL).  http://mepag.jpl.nasa.gov/

Nov. 4:  VEXAG  (Venus Exploration Analysis Group) Meeting 31 - Sheraton Hotel, Nov. 4:  VEXAG  (Venus Exploration Analysis Group) Meeting 31 - Sheraton Hotel,  Pasadena, CA.Pasadena, CA.

Nov. 7: Mars at opposition

Nov. 8-10:  Mars Phoenix Science Team Meeting, Santa Cruz, CA.

Nov. 15-17:  Short course:  “Planetary Protection: Policies and Practices”, at the Center for Marine Biotechnology, Baltimore, MD, for info contact Amy Baker <tasalb@attglobal.net>.  A maximum of 20 students can be accommodated.

Nov. 14-16:  Mars Phoenix system CDR.  Location Pasadena area.

Nov. 28-30:  Mars Express workshop on meaning of methane on Mars.  ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands. contact Agustin Chicarro

Nov. 29-30:  Phoenix Landing Site workshop, Pasadena area.

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. 6-8:  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)

Second Quarter, 2006

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

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

May 15-16:  IMEWG meeting, ESTEC, Netherlands

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

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

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):  4^th Mars Polar Science Conference.  Organizers = Steve Clifford, Walter Amman.  Location: Switzerland.

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. 22-25:  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):  7^th International Mars Science Conference, Caltech, Pasadena, CA.  (sponsored by the Mars Program Office, JPL).

July 10:  Phoenix ORR

Aug. 9-28:  Mars Phoenix Launch period

Sept. (Late):  2^nd 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