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Planetary Science Subcomittee Meeting
The next meeting of the Planetary Science Subcommittee of the NASA Advisory Council will be on 23–24 June in room E100E of Building 1 at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. The agenda will include the usual updates on the Planetary Science and Mars Exploration Programs and reports on the activities of the community-based assessment groups (MEPAG, LEAG, OPAG, etc.) There will also be presentations on the Cassini extended mission, the current status of planning for Mars Sample Return and the Outer Planet Flagship and a the results of studies on the drivers for cost overruns and schedule slips. The meeting is open to the public up to the capacity of the room. Attendees will be requested to sign a register and to comply with NASA security requirements, including the presentation of a valid picture ID, before receiving an access badge. Foreign nationals attending this meeting will be required to provide the following information no less than 15 working days prior to the meeting: full name; gender; date/place of birth; citizenship; social security number; green card information (resident alien number, expiration date); visa information (number, type, expiration date); passport information (number, country of issue, expiration date); employer/affiliation information (name of institution, title/position, address, country of employer, telephone, email address); title/position of attendee. To expedite admittance, attendees with U.S. citizenship can provide identifying information 4 working days in advance by contacting Marian Norris via email at mnorris@nasa.gov or by telephone at (202) 358-4452.
Michael New
Executive Secretary
Planetary Science Subcommittee
Dear Colleagues,
We kindly remind you that January 14 is the deadline for abstract submission for the
EGU General Assembly to be held on April 13–18, 2008 in Vienna.
In particular we would like to draw your attention to two Symposia which are relevant to the Venus investigations.
1. The special session PS 3.3 "Venus Express: two years in orbit" (Conveners: D.Titov,
H. Svedhem)
2. PS 3.5 "Atmospheres of terrestrial planets" (Conveners: W. Markiewicz, F. Montmessin)
We agreed that PS 3.3 will consist ONLY of solicited talks that will give an overview of the Venus Express highlights.
We would like to encourage you to submit the contributed papers related to the Venus studies to the PS 3.5 Symposium.
At the level of the EGU Programme Committee we will arrange that PS 3.5 will follow PS 3.3
to ensure logical translation from the invited reviews in PS 3.3 to more detailed contributed papers in PS 3.5.
If you have already submitted your talk to PS 3.3 you do not need to do anything.
We will forward your abstracts to the PS 3.5.
Best regards
Dima Titov
Hakan Svedhem
Conveners of the PS 3.3
ESA - Venus Express - November 21, 2007
The Planetary Society Weblog
By Emily Lakdawalla
Planetary News: Venus (2006)
First Venus Express VIRTIS Images Peel Away the Planet's Clouds
By Emily Lakdawalla
April 14, 2006
The first image released from the Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer (VIRTIS) aboard Venus Express reveals a subtly detailed, swirling patterns in the upper levels of Venus' thick and complex atmosphere. The image has also, for the first time, shown that Venus has a southern "polar vortex" matching the one discovered at the north pole by the Pioneer Venus mission in 1978.
