VEXAG/Venus Express/Akatsuki/ VEXAG Calendars 2012

Venus Express Science Team Meetings

Svalbard Meeting, June 4–6, 2012

  • Hotel – SAS Radisson Longyearbyen
  • Proposed agenda
    • Arrive Sunday: arrive at 14:00, 23:30, and 00:30
      • SAS out of Oslo
    • Talks Monday and Tuesday
    • Transit is 00:04 – 06:52 early on Wednesday
    • June 06: Sleep or morning hike. Plane leaves 14:45

Fall Venus Express Science Working Team – Fall 2012 – Possibly Moscow

Next Venus Science Workshop – March 2013 – Location to be announced

Akatsuki  (Venus Climate Orbiter, Planet-C) Project Events

  • May 20, 2010 - Launch
  • December 7, 2010 – Arrival at Venus – Failed Orbit Insertion
  • November 2015 – Venus Fly-by
  • Sometime in 2016 – Possible Venus Orbit Insertion

Current VEXAG Sponsored Meetings

Workshop on Exploring the Planetary Science Achievable from a Balloon-Based Observatory
Hosted by Tibor Kremic, NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, Wednesday–Thursday, January 25–26, 2012.

A Venus Town Hall Meeting will be held in conjunction with Venus Special Session, Venus Volcanism Viewpoints, at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC), Houston, Texas, March 2012 (Date and location to be announced).

VEXAG will support the June 6, 2012, Venus Transit outreach events and will maintain a list of community events.

Tim Titus (USGS, Flagstaff) invites the Venus Science Community to participate in the Third International Planetary Dunes Workshop, June 12–15, 2012, Flagstaff, Arizona.

Venus Science Community to participate in the International Planetary Probe Workshop, Toulouse, France, week of June 18–22, 2012. A Venus special session will review current projects and studies, and will explore mission concepts and designs, instrumentation, and new and enabling technologies for future Venus entry missions. Lessons learned from earlier missions will also be included.

Comparative Climatology of Terrestrial Planets (Monday through Thursday) week of June 25–29, 2012, Boulder, Colorado. Topics for the conference are:

    • Climate and Atmosphere
    • Clouds, Hazes, and Precipitation
    • Interior-Surface-Atmosphere Interactions
    • Solar-Atmosphere Interactions
    • Exoplanets and Climate

An International Venus Exploration Working Group Meeting is being considered in conjunction with the COSPAR meeting on July 14–22, 2012, in Mysore, India.

A Venus Exploration Regions Workshop and VEXAG Meeting #10 will be held at the Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, Texas, Sometime in second half of 2012 (Dates to be announced).

Members of the Venus community are encouraged to participate in:

  • The Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS)–American Geophysical Union (AGU) (Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting–WPGM) Joint Assembly 2012 in Singapore, August 13–17, 2012. Session proposals are due December 5, 2011.
  • American Astronomical Society Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) Annual Meeting, Reno, Nevada, October 14–19, 2012.
  • European Planetary Science Congress (EPSC), Madrid, Spain, September 23–28, 2012.

Science Conferences/Other Meetings 2012

January 16–20 2012
Diversity of Planetary Atmospheres Conference
Aspen Colorado
Discussion of the atmospheres of the Earth, Solar System planets, and extra-solar planets. Experts in astrophysics, planetary science and climatology are invited.

March 19–23, 2012
43rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
The Woodlands, Texas

June 18–22 2012
9th Interplanetary Probe Workshop (IPPW-9)
Toulouse France

July 14–22 2012
COSPAR 2012
Mysore, India

October 14–19 2012
DPS Meeting
Reno, Nevada,

December 10–14 2012
Fall AGU Meeting
San Francisco, California


Last updated
February 2, 2012