A good number of planetary missions and flight instruments are either in development or have been proposed and in review. Mission or instrument leads and/or team members are encouraged to present their missions or instruments for wider community awareness, lessons learned or for fostering future collaborations. Abstracts on concept planetary missions and instruments can also be considered for this session

The aim of this session is to provide a platform for all aspects related to instrumentation deployed on planetary (solid or liquid) surfaces. The conveners welcome contributions on hard/soft landers and atmospheric entry probes on missions past, present and future: outcomes, lessons learned and new developments.

With the success of Marco and investments made in CubeSats/SmallSats, the time is rapidly approaching that planetary missions can use the technologies and instruments to achieve high quality scientific measurements. This session focuses on concepts for miniature planetary instruments, technologies and missions.

"Planetary Exploration, Horizon 2061" is a long-term foresight exercise led by scientists, engineers and technology experts whose objective is to draw a long-term picture of the four pillars of planetary exploration:
(1) our major scientific questions on planetary systems;
(2) the different types of space missions that we need to fly;
(3) the key technologies we need to master;
(4) the ground-based and space-based infrastructures and services needed.
Its principal motivations are to inspire international collaborations to better meet technology and mission challenges and increase the overall science return of planetary exploration, and to share with the communities and leaders its major scientific questions and technological challenges.
This EPSC session devoted to “Planetary Exploration, Horizon 2061” will present the conclusions reached during the previous workshops to the participants to the EPSC-DPS conference, invite additional contributions, and stimulate future long-term forward-look activities related to the sciences and technologies of Planetary Exploration.

This session welcomes presentations on all aspect of the Venus system including interior, surface, atmosphere and ionosphere. We welcome presentations based on past or current observations, theory and modelling, as well as presentations related to future instruments and missions including the ESA-NASA proposed EnVision Venus orbiter and NASA Discovery Venus missions.

An Interstellar Probe mission would be the first dedicated mission to venture into the unknown space between our star and other potentially habitable planetary systems. The idea was first discussed dating back to 1960 and the concept has been studied by multiple groups since then. The lack of propulsion technologies and launch vehicles have often presented a stumbling block for NASA and other space agencies to move further with these concepts. In 2016, a congressional report recommended NASA to take the enabling steps for an Interstellar scientific probe. A new NASA-funded study is under way to design a pragmatic Interstellar Probe mission with a goal of reaching 1000 AU within 50 years using available or near-term technology. The study objectives are to identify compelling science targets, develop realistic mission concepts and evaluate critical technologies. The cross-disciplinary science targets include exploration of the Very Local Interstellar Medium and its interaction with the heliosphere, characterization of the circum-solar dust disk, exploration of previously unexplored Kuiper Belt Objects, and observation of the extragalactic background light beyond the zodiacal cloud. A vantage point far away from the solar system, naturally enables these observations to be put in the context of other exoplanetary systems and astrospheres. At the same time, Chinese scientists are studying with their space agency CNSA a scenario in which two “Heliospheric Boundary Explorers” would be launched 6 years apart, one towards the “nose” of the Heliosphere, one in the direction of its putative tail, to address scientific objectives partly similar to the ones described in the NASA study. Not only will the synergies between these two missions be particularly valuable, but also both of them will offer unique opportunities for broad international collaborations, including European contributions.
This session will welcome reports on the unique science discoveries enabled by missions to the Interstellar Medium beyond heliospheric boundaries and will discuss their design concepts, enabling technologies and programmatic challenges.

We invite contributions on various uses of moon and planetary outposts : science, technology, international cooperation, resource utilisation, economic development, human/robotic partnership, innovation, inspiration, education, entertainment, tourism, culture and societal benefits. We invite scientists, engineers, designers, architects, astronauts, research agencies, industries from (new) space and non-space to participate. We shall also discuss habitats projects for analogue simulations such as MDRS, HiSeas, IgLUna, Luna. This EPSC session MIT8 will serve as ICEUM14B session for ILEWG 14th International Conference on Exploration & Utilisation of the Moon.

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The session will address Moon, Mars and planetary outposts : science, technology, international cooperation, resource utilisation, economic development, human/robotic partnership, innovation, inspiration, education, entertainment, tourism, culture and societal benefits. We invite scientists, engineers, designers, architects, astronauts, research agencies, industries from (new) space and non-space to participate. We shall also discuss habitats projects for analogue simulations such as MDRS, HiSeas, IgLUna, Luna, MaMBA. This EPSC session MIT8 will serve as ICEUM14B session for ILEWG 14th International Conference on Exploration & Utilisation of the Moon.

Modern space missions, ground telescopes and modeling facilities are producing huge amount of data. A new era of data distribution and access procedures is now starting with interoperable infrastructures and big data technologies. Long term archives exist for telescopic and space-borne observations but high-level functions need to be setup on top of theses repositories to make Solar and Planetary Science data more accessible and to favor interoperability. Results of simulations and reference laboratory data also need to be integrated to support and interpret the observations.
The Virtual Observatory (VO) standards developed in Astronomy may be adapted in the field of Planetary Science to develop interoperability, including automated workflows to process related data from different sources. Other communities have developed their own standards (GIS for surfaces, SPASE for space plasma, PDS4 for planetary mission archives…) and an effort to make them interoperable is starting.
We call for contributions presenting progresses in the fields of Solar and Planetary science databases and tools. We encourage contributors to focus on science use cases and on international standard implementation, such as those proposed by the IVOA (International Virtual Observatory Alliance), the OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium), the IPDA (International Planetary Data Alliance) or the IHDEA (International Heliophysics Data Environment Alliance), as well as applications linked to the EOSC (European Open Science Cloud) infrastructure.

Machine Learning (ML) is the subfield of computer science that gives "computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed." As tactical and strategic planning timelines compress and increasingly large nonlinear datasets are acquired, autonomy and machine intelligence has to play a more critical role in the interpretation of data from planetary exploration missions and laboratory measurements. There is a need for capable systems that can rapidly and intelligently extract information from these datasets in a manner useful for scientific analysis. The community is starting to respond to this need by applying machine learning and deep learning approaches on various levels. This session will explore research that leverages machine learning methods to enhance our scientific understanding of planetary data, from astronomical observations, planetary exploration missions, as well as numerical simulations. Science objectives as diverse as image recognition, atmospheric retrieval, analysis of observed time series and of numerical simulation addressed through a variety of machine and deep learning tools will be considered.

Earth analogues are natural field sites with conditions that resemble one or more conditions found in planetary bodies. The importance of those extreme sites are crucial for study limits of life, habitability and for the space missions tools and techniques test before flying. Those extreme sites can be interpreted as natural laboratories. This session also welcomes abstracts on scientific investigations in planetary analogues fieldwork that are being carried out with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) a.k.a. drones.

Late posters Missions, Instrumentation, Techniques (MIT)