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

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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)

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Doug & admins, please move this post as appropriate...thanks!


Hmm....convergent issues! I just did a post re the Pluto mess, but the server isn't letting me post the link in compact form; here it is: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...amp;#entry79657. Poor PR seems to be an overarching problem for space science.

Solution: ESA, NASA, and a whole lot of other SF activities need to undergo a significant cultural change & elevate their marketing departments to the same level that major corporations do (decision-maker/board level). These organizations simply do not realize at the gut level that marketing is essential to their survival.

Okay, that was an attempt to frame the problem in very broad strokes. Anybody have some practical implementation/solution approaches?