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Brines Across the Solar System: Ancient and Future Brines - May 15–18, 2023

Planetary In Situ Workshop

The Ancient and Future Brines Conference is joining forces with the Planet In Situ team to host a one-day hybrid workshop entitled Optimizing Planetary In-Situ Surface-Atmosphere Interaction Investigations. The workshop will be held on May 18 as a part of the Ancient and Future Brines Conference.

The goal of this one-day workshop is to discuss implementation options for in situ investigations of brines and other surface-atmosphere interactions that involve water. This workshop is a follow-up to the successful 2022 workshop of the same name (https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/planetinsitu2022/) and aims to continue community discussion about relevant instrument, operations, and related implementation options, and to build further collaborations for potential instrument and mission concepts.

More details about this community can be found here: http://planetinsitu.space/.

All Ancient and Future Brines Conference registrants are already registered to attend (separate registration is not necessary). Other terrestrial and planetary science and engineering community members interested in these topics are also welcome to attend.

The one-day program will include lightning talks about instrument and operations concepts under development and panel discussions about observation site selection considerations and avoiding spacecraft-induced perturbations.

To register as a non-Brines conference participant, please fill out this Google Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfZMlrmXCd8_Mbz1RBrpj8c1zq0E8hDpza_bZPd658YjFqsgA/viewform.

For those attending the Brines Conference in person, there will also be an opportunity for demonstrations of an instrument or other in situ brines investigation-relevant technology on the Friday field trip at Huck Salt Works, which is an above ground salt mine within a region containing alkali springs. Please contact Alejandro Soto ([email protected]) if interested in demonstrating your technology.

Note: All electronic submission forms are part of the Meeting Portal, which requires users to set up a personal profile to access our electronic forms (setting up a profile is quick and easy, requiring only a few minutes of your time).