Conference Schedule
Schedule Overview
All Times: U.S. Central Standard Time, GMT ‐6
Note: All plenary sessions at the conference venue are scheduled in Waterway Ballroom 4 and will be streamed in Waterway Ballrooms 5 and 6-8 to maintain COVID protocols and social distancing. All three ballrooms will be connected during plenary sessions to enable in-person questions. In-person and virtual attendees can also use the Zoom webinar Q&A feature to ask and upvote questions.
Monday 3/7
| 8:30 a.m. | Astrobiology: “I Find the Lack of Life Disturbing” (M101) Waterway Ballroom 1 |
| Special Session: Analysis of Hayabusa2 Returned Samples from Ryugu (M102) Waterway Ballroom 4 |
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| Petrology, Petrogenesis, and Geochemistry of Martian Meteorites, Crust, and Mantle (M103) Waterway Ballroom 5 |
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| Lunar Cratering and Regolith (M104) Waterway Ballroom 6 |
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| The Martian Atmosphere: High Altitude, Aerosols, Early Mars (M105) Montgomery Ballroom |
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| 1:00 p.m. | Plenary Session: Masursky Lecture (M121) Waterway Ballroom 4 |
| 2:15 p.m. | Low-Temperature Alteration on Chondritic Asteroids (M151) Waterway Ballroom 1 |
| Special Session: A Year of Perseverance at Jezero I (M152) Waterway Ballroom 4 |
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| Remote Analysis of Ryugu and Bennu from Hayabusa2 and OSIRIS-REx (M153) Waterway Ballroom 5 |
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| Lunar Geophysics: The Crust, The Core, and So Much More (M154) Waterway Ballroom 6 |
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| Ocean Worlds and Icy Volcanism: The Briny Deep (M155) Montgomery Ballroom |
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| 6:30 p.m. | Poster Session I Town Center Exhibit Area |
Tuesday 3/8
| 8:30 a.m. | Analysis and Curation of Pristine Returned Samples from Ryugu and Bennu (T301) Waterway Ballroom 1 |
| Special Session: Venus, the Emerging Planet: What We Know and Don’t Know Before the Upcoming Missions (T302) Waterway Ballroom 4 |
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| A Year of Perseverance at Jezero II (T303) Waterway Ballroom 5 |
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| Lunar Volatiles and Exosphere (T304) Waterway Ballroom 6 |
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| Pluto and New Juno Results at Ganymede and Io (T305) Montgomery Ballroom |
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| 1:00 p.m. | Plenary Session: NASA Headquarters Briefing (T321) Waterway Ballroom 4 |
| 2:15 p.m. | Differentiated Parent Bodies from Core to Crust (T351) Waterway Ballroom 1 |
| Special Session: Advancing Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility in the Planetary Workforce (T352) Waterway Ballroom 4 |
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| Aeolian and Modern Processes on Mars (T353) Waterway Ballroom 5 |
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| Venus: So Hot Right Now (T354) Waterway Ballroom 6 |
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| Mapping Lunar Water (T355) Montgomery Ballroom |
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| 3:45 p.m. | Lunar Exploration Activities (T356) Montgomery Ballroom |
| 6:30 p.m. | Poster Session II Town Center Exhibit Area |
Wednesday 3/9
| 8:30 a.m. | Presolar Grains and Interplanetary Dust Particles (W501) Waterway Ballroom 1 |
| Special Session: The Chinese Lunar and Planetary Exploration Program: Recent Moon and Mars Results (W502) Waterway Ballroom 4 |
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| Alteration Processes and Water Distribution on Mars (W503) Waterway Ballroom 5 |
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| Near-Earth and Main-Belt Asteroids: Physical Characteristics and Surface Composition (W504) Waterway Ballroom 6 |
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| Icy Body Tectonics and Interiors: All It's Cracked Up To Be (W505) Montgomery Ballroom |
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| 10:00 a.m. | Organic Components in Chondrites (W506) Waterway Ballroom 1 |
| 11:45 a.m. | Plenary Session: Artemis Town Hall (W520) Waterway Ballroom 4 |
| 1:00 p.m. | Plenary Session: Future Science: NASA's Early Career Award Winners (W521) Waterway Ballroom 4 |
| 2:15 p.m. | Impact Processes on Terrestrial Bodies (W551) Waterway Ballroom 1 |
| Special Session: Apollo’s Legacy for Lunar and Planetary Science, from Lunar Sample Analysis to Solar System Studies (W552) Waterway Ballroom 4 |
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| Water on Mars Through Time and Space (W553) Waterway Ballroom 5 |
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| Planetary Volcanism: From Melt to Morphology (W554) Waterway Ballroom 6 |
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| Formation and Evolution of Comets and Kuiper Belt Objects: Way Out There (W555) Montgomery Ballroom |
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| 6:30 p.m. | Poster Session III: Virtual iPoster/Gather.town |
Thursday 3/10
| 8:30 a.m. | Protoplanetary Disk Structure and Evolution (W701) Waterway Ballroom 1 |
| Exoplanets: Inside and Out (W702) Waterway Ballroom 4 |
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| Sedimentary Rocks on Mars: Deposition, Diagenesis, and Stratigraphy (W703) Waterway Ballroom 5 |
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| Celebrating Apollo 16 and 17 Missions: A Perspective for the Future of Lunar Exploration (W704) Waterway Ballroom 6 |
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| Titan: So Chill Right Now (W705) Montgomery Ballroom |
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| 10:00 a.m. | Mercury: Building the Smallest Planet (W706) Waterway Ballroom 4 |
| 1:00 p.m. | Plenary Session: R&A Town Hall (W721) Waterway Ballroom 4 |
| 2:15 p.m. | Chondritic Components: CAIs and Chondrules (W751) Waterway Ballroom 1 |
| Martian Geophysics and Tectonics (W752) Waterway Ballroom 4 |
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| Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity: Geochemistry in Gale Crater (W753) Waterway Ballroom 5 |
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| Lunar Petrology and Geochemistry: It Was Cool Even Before Chang'e 5 (W754) Waterway Ballroom 6 |
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| Collision Processes on Asteroids and the Moon, a Potpourri (W755) Montgomery Ballroom |
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| 6:30 p.m. | Poster Session IV Town Center Exhibit Area |
Friday 3/11
| 8:30 a.m. | Using Impact Craters to Understand Mars (W901) Waterway Ballroom 1 |
| The Martian Cryosphere: A Frozen Red Planet (W902) Waterway Ballroom 4 |
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| Martian Geochemistry: Minerals and Methods (W903) Waterway Ballroom 5 |
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| Lunar Volcanism: The Floor is Made of Lava! (W904) Waterway Ballroom 6 |
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| Space Weathering: Experiments, Simulations, and Observations (W905) Montgomery Ballroom |
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| 10:00 a.m. | Thermal and Shock Metamorphism in Chondrites (W906) Waterway Ballroom 1 |
