Workshop Schedule Session 2: Mars

August 23, Monday Afternoon


Chair: Jeff Umland	Co-Chair: Prasun Desai
Scope: On the Science, Mission Architecture, Technology, Sensors and other topics of relevance to Mars. MER team reports on challenges and lessons learned, Phoenix, MSL and other upcomming Mars Probe/Lander Missions.

Session Time	Topic/Details (Including links to the abstracts for the presentations where available)	Presentation	Author(s)/Speaker (in bold)
1:00 - 1:30	Technology Development for NASA Mars Missions	Full	Samad Hayati, JPL
1:30 - 2:00	ESA's Mars Program: European Plans for Mars Exploration	Full	Francois Forget, Universite P. et M. Curie
2:00 - 2:20	MER EDL: Overview and Reconstruction Status	Full	Prasun Desai, NASA LaRC Wayne Lee, JPL
2:20 - 2:40	MSL EDL Challenges	Full	Jeff Umland, et al., JPL
2:40 - 3:00	Mars Science Laboratory Entry, Descent and Landing Performance and Environments	Full	Mary Kae Lockwood, et al., NASA LaRC
3:00 - 3:15	Break
3:15 - 3:30	A New Model Based Climate Database for the Martian Atmosphere (word)	Full	F. Forget , K. Dassas M. Angelats I Coll, Y. Wanherdrick, F. Hourdin, S. L. Lebonnois; Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique du CNRS,Paris, France. S. Bingham, S. R. Lewis, L. Montabone, P. Read, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics,Univ. of Oxford, Oxford, UK M. Lopez Valverde, F. Gonzalez-Galindo Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia,Granada, Spain F. Montmessin, NASA Ames, USA J.P. Huot, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands M.C. Desjean, CNES, Toulouse, France
3:30 - 3:45	Mars General Circulation Model and the Pascal Mission	Full	Tony Colaprete, NASA ARC
3:45 - 4:00	Overview of the Pheonix Entry, Descent and Landing System	Full	Rob Grover, JPL
4:00 - 4:15	Should We Believe Atmospheric Temperatures Measured by Entry Accelerometers Traveling at "Slow" Near-sonic Speeds? (word)	Full	Paul Withers, Center for Space Physics, Boston University, Boston MA, USA
4:15 - 4:30	The Next Generation of Planetary Atmospheric Probes (word)	Full	Howard Houben, Bay Area Environmental Research Institute
4:30 - 5:00	PANEL DISCUSSION: Leveraging Mars Exploration Strategies for Other Planetary Exploration		Panel Members TBD
6:30 - 9:30	Banquet	Michaels at Shoreline Sponsored by The Boeing Company