25-27 Feb 2019 Marseille (France)

Meeting Program

Monday, February 25, 2019

Time Event  
08:00 - 08:30 Registration - Desk opened  
08:30 - 09:00 Introduction & Aims  
09:00 - 10:30 Context, Giant Planets, Exoplanets, Origins (LAM - Amphitheatre)  
09:00 - 09:30 Outstanding Issues for the Ice Giants (LAM - Amphitheatre) - David Stevenson
 
09:30 - 09:50 How the Ice Giants Could Improve our Knowledge of the Hot Neptune Population? (LAM - Amphitheatre) - Magali Deleuil & Don Pollaco
 
09:50 - 10:10 Noble gases in giant planets: inherence from solar, cometary and meteoritic data (LAM - Amphitheatre) - Bernard Marty
 
10:10 - 10:30 Xenon Isotopes as Indicators of the Origin of Volatiles in the Ice Giants (LAM - Amphitheatre) - Kathleen Mandt & Olivier Mousis
 
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break, Poster Session (Lobby)  
11:00 - 12:00 Context, Giant Planets, Exoplanets, Origins (cont.) (LAM - Amphitheatre)  
11:00 - 11:20 The Exploration of Neptune: a Focus on the Noble Gases and Volatiles as Keys to Constrain the Ice Giant Formation and Evolution (LAM - Amphitheatre) - Thomas M. Smith, Huaiyu He, Jiangchuan Huang, Tong Wang, & Leyang Zou
 
11:20 - 11:40 What is Neptune’s D/H ratio really telling us about its water abundance? (LAM - Amphitheatre) - Mohamad Ali-Dib
 
11:40 - 12:00 Key Atmospheric Signatures for Deciphering the Formation Conditions of Uranus and Neptune in the Protosolar Nebula (LAM - Amphitheatre) - Olivier Mousis
 
12:00 - 13:20 Lunch - Buffet at LAM  
13:20 - 15:50 Atmospheres (LAM - Amphitheatre)  
13:20 - 13:50 Composition, Structure, Origin, and Entry Probes (LAM - Amphitheatre) - Sushil Atreya
 
13:50 - 14:10 Simultaneous Remote Sensing of a Probe Entry Site with Descent: Lessons Learned from Galileo (LAM - Amphitheatre) - Glenn Orton
 
14:10 - 14:30 Ice Giant Circulation Patterns Inferred From Infrared Remote Sensing: Where to Target a Probe? (LAM - Amphitheatre) - Leigh Fletcher
 
14:30 - 14:50 Ice Giants Winds and Meteorology in Unconstrained Weather Layers (LAM - Amphitheatre) - Ricardo Hueso, & Agustin Sanchez-Lavega
 
14:50 - 15:10 Aerosols in the atmospheres of the Ice Giants (LAM - Amphitheatre) - Daniel Toledo, Patrick G. J. Irwin, & Pascal Rannou
 
15:10 - 15:30 Atmospheric Electricity at the Ice Giants (LAM - Amphitheatre) - Karen Aplin, Tom Nordheim, Georg Fischer, Alexandr Konovalenko, & Vyacheslav Zakharenko
 
15:30 - 15:50 Constraining the deep oxygen abundance of Uranus and Neptune from mass spectrometry and thermochemical modeling (LAM - Amphitheatre) - Thibault Cavalié, Olivia Venot, Roda Bounaceur, Jérémy Leconte, & Michel Dobrijevic
 
15:50 - 16:20 Coffee break, Poster Session (Lobby)  
16:20 - 17:10 Interiors (LAM - Amphitheatre)  
16:20 - 16:50 Uranus and Neptune: from Origin to Current-State Structure (LAM - Amphitheatre) - Ravit Helled
 
16:50 - 17:10 Linking Atmospheres and Interiors of Uranus and Neptune: Lessons from Juno (LAM - Amphitheatre) - Tristan Guillot
 
17:10 - 18:30 Panel Discussion on Science Drivers, Poster Session  

Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Time Event  
09:00 - 10:00 NASA and ESA’s plans to explore the Ice Giants (LAM - Amphitheatre)  
09:00 - 09:30 NASA’s Planetary Portfolio: Present Status and Future Plans (LAM - Amphitheatre) - Lori Glaze
 
09:30 - 10:00 The status of ESA’s Science Programme (LAM - Amphitheatre) - Luigi Colangeli
 
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break, Poster Session (Lobby)  
10:30 - 12:00 Entry Systems (LAM - Amphitheatre)  
10:30 - 11:00 Challenges and Opportunities for Ensuring Entry System Technology Readiness for Ice Giants Probe Missions (LAM - Amphitheatre) - Ethiraj Venkatapathy, Donald Ellerby, & Peter Gage
 
11:00 - 11:15 Exploration of Atmospheric Entries at Uranus & Neptune with HEEET as Heatshield TPS (LAM - Amphitheatre) - Dinesh Prabhu
 
11:15 - 11:30 Aerocapture Technology for Enabling Ice Giant Exploration (LAM - Amphitheatre) - Michelle Munk
 
11:30 - 11:45 Aerocapture as an Option for Ice Giants Missions (LAM - Amphitheatre) - Soumyo Dutta, Benjamin Tackett, & Richard Powell
 
11:45 - 12:00 Entry Probes for Planetary Exploration: the ArianeGroup Background and Capabilities (LAM - Amphitheatre) - Jean-Marc Bouilly, & Marc Lacoste
 
12:00 - 12:15 Other Technology Issues (LAM - Amphitheatre)  
12:00 - 12:15 Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators (RTGs) and Heater Units (RHUs) for the European Space Nuclear Power Programme (LAM - Amphitheatre) - Richard Ambrosi
 
12:15 - 12:45 Instrumentation (LAM - Amphitheatre)  
12:15 - 12:45 Mass Spectrometric Investigations of the Atmospheres of Giant Planets (LAM - Amphitheatre) - Peter Wurz
 
12:45 - 13:30 Lunch - Buffet at LAM  
13:30 - 18:00 Boat tour of the Calanques - Trip from Marseille Vieux Port to Cassis (duration ~3h15)  
19:00 - 22:00 Conference Dinner - Restaurant La Grotte  

Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Time Event  
09:00 - 10:30 Instrumentation (cont.) (LAM - Amphitheatre)  
09:00 - 09:15 Model Payload for Ice Giant Entry Probe Missions (LAM - Amphitheatre) - David H. Atkinson, Olivier Mousis, & Thomas R. Spilker
 
09:15 - 09:30 The Big Picture: Main Neutral and Ionized Constituents Measurements on an Uranus/Neptune Atmospheric Probe (LAM - Amphitheatre) - Stas Barabash, & Peter Wurz
 
09:30 - 09:45 Sampling Systems That Support Atmospheric Probe Mass Spectrometry Objectives (LAM - Amphitheatre) - Hunter Waite, Tim Brockwell, Mark Libardoni, Ryan Blase, Chris Glein, Scott Bolton, & Peter Wurz
 
09:45 - 10:00 LOAC: a Light Aerosol Counter/sizer for Characterizing the Size Distribution and Nature of the Particles in the Giants Atmospheres (LAM - Amphitheatre) - Jean-Baptiste Renard, Olivier Mousis, Gwenaël Berthet, Nicolas Verdier, & Aude-Lyse Millet
 
10:00 - 10:15 The Interaction between Ice Giant’s Atmospheres, Ionospheres and Magnetospheres (LAM - Amphitheatre) - Pontus Brandt, Stanislav Barabash, George Clark, Ian Cohen, Peter Kollmann, Kathleen Mandt, Barry Mauk, Ralph Mcnutt, Carol Paty, Abigail Rymer, & Todd Smith
 
10:15 - 10:30 The Atmospheric Structure of the Ice Giant Planets from in Situ Measurements (LAM - Amphitheatre) - Francesca Ferri, Alessio Aboudan, Giacomo Colombatti, Carlo Bettanini, & Stefano Debei
 
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break, Poster Session (Lobby)  
11:00 - 12:30 Instrumentation (cont.)  
11:00 - 11:15 Measurements of Atmospheric Dynamics and Composition from Radiometric Tracking of an Ice Giant Entry Probe (LAM - Amphitheatre) - David Atkinson, Sami Asmar, & Thomas R. Spilker
 
11:15 - 11:30 Piezo-electric Inlet System for Atmospheric Descent Probe (LAM - Amphitheatre) - Jurij Simcic, Joseph Choonsup Lee, Stojan Madzunkov, Dragan Nikolic, & Anton Belousov
 
11:30 - 11:45 A Low-resource Magnetometer for an Ice Giant Atmospheric Probe (LAM - Amphitheatre) - Adam Masters, Patrick Brown, & Michele Dougherty
 
11:45 - 12:00 An Energetic Particle Monitor for Ice Giant Atmospheric Probes (LAM - Amphitheatre) - André Nicolas, Pierre Devoto, Quentin Nenon, & Léa Griton
 
12:00 - 12:15 Langmuir Probe experiments for the Ice Giants: Concepts for exploration of Uranus and Neptune systems - David Andrews, Michiko Morooka, Jan-Erik Wahlund, Anders Eriksson, Niklas Edberg, Yuri Khotyaintsev, Erik Vigren, Andris Vaivads, Lina Hadid, Mats Andre, & Jan Bergman
 
12:15 - 12:30 Sounding the stratospheres of Uranus and Neptune with a submm wave limb sounding instrument (LAM - Amphitheatre) - Paul Hartogh
 
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch - Buffet at LAM  
14:00 - 15:00 Mission Options and Scenarios  
14:00 - 14:15 Ice Giant System Architectures: Ramifications for Mission Architectures and Key Technologies (LAM - Amphitheatre) - Thomas Spilker
 
14:15 - 14:30 Small Next-generation Atmospheric Probe (SNAP) for In-Situ Atmospheric Exploration of Ice Giant Planets (LAM - Amphitheatre) - Kunio Sayanagi, Robert Dillman, David Atkinson, Jing Li, Sarag Saikia, Amy Simon, Thomas Spilker, & Michael Wong
 
14:30 - 14:45 Common Probe Design Study and Follow-on Activities (LAM - Amphitheatre) - Helen Hwang
 
14:45 - 15:00 Science Goals and Mission Objectives for the Future Exploration of Ice Giants System: a Horizon 2061 Perspective (LAM - Amphitheatre) - Michel Blanc
 
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break, Poster Session (Lobby)  
15:30 - 17:30 Panel Discussion about Technology Readiness and Challenges, Strategy for NASA-ESA Partnership. Conclusions of the Workshop (LAM - Amphitheatre)  
  
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