Venus Express: One Year in Orbit, Symposium at the 2007 EGU General Assembly Options

[Guest_AlexBlackwell_*]

Forwarding an email that was sent out today by Dmitri Titov, Venus Express PI. Cross reference with this UMSF thread.

Dear Colleagues,

the General Assembly of the European Geophysical Union (EGU) will be held on April 15-20, 2007 in Vienna, Austria. The Symposium PS 2.1 "Venus Express: one year in orbit", included in the science Programme, will be focused on presentation and discussion of the results obtained during the first year of the orbital mission. Please find the description of the Symposium at the end of the e-mail and visit the EGU Web site: http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2007/ for more details about the Assembly.

We would like to encourage you to take part in the Symposium and to submit contributed abstracts. Please note that the deadline for abstracts submission is January 15, 2007.

Best regards

Dima Titov and Hakan Svedhem,
The Conveners
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On April 11, 2006 Venus Express-the first European satellite at Venus- was inserted in orbit around the planet and began collecting data. The results of the first year of observations will be presented at the Symposium. The Programme will consist of solicited talks focused on the Venus Express observations and contributed presentations of the preliminary data analysis. The contributions related to the physics of Venus atmosphere, its plasma environment and the surface and based on the analysis of the data from Venus Express and earlier missions, theoretical studies and numerical modelling are highly welcome. Perspectives of the future Venus exploration will be discussed.

Convener : D. Titov (Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Germany) Co-convener : H. Svedhem (ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands)

[JTN]

Since this old chestnut has come up again: I thought the following snippet from a Cassini Significant Events report last year was interesting in this connection (my emphasis):

Outreach presented an overview of Cassini-Huygens Education and Public Outreach (EPO) to scientists and outreach specialists from throughout Europe at "Europlanet" in Berlin, Germany last week. While the major focus of the conference was scientific, an entire session day was devoted to outreach and the vital role scientists play in boosting the public's awareness and support for space science. Over 50 people attended the session, which included talks from the European journalism community, university researchers, and EPO specialists from the European Space Agency.

(which suggests that there are some )
I wonder how that exchange went?

(This discussion should probably go in the ESA Press Efforts thread...)