Image credit: JAXA/DART/Damia Bouic NASA/GSFC/U. Arizona http://envisionvenus.eu http:/bit.ly/venus2020 M5/EnVision Project Cosmic Vision mission timeline

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Image credit: http://envisionvenus.eu ESA Science - adapted from Wikipedia M5/EnVision : timeline Apr. 2016: Release of call for M5 mission Oct. 2016: EnVision proposal submitted Jan. 2017: 1st programmatic evaluation rejected Feb. 2017: EnVision scientific & programmatic evaluation resumes May 2018: ESA selects 3 M5 mission concepts to study Jun. 2018: ESA Science Directorate forms Science Study Team (SST) Nov 2018: CDF study (Phase 0) completed / EnVision Mission Definition Review (MDR)

2019-2020: Industrial phase A study (2 independent ESA contractors) Image credit M5/EnVision Project Mar. 2020 : EnVision Mission Consolidation Review (MCR) Dec. 2020 : EnVision Assessment Study Report (Yellow Book) Feb. 2021 : EnVision Mission Selection Review (MSR)

http://envisionvenus.eu Image credit ESA Three very different M5 finalists "A high-energy survey of the early Universe, an infrared observatory to study the formation of stars, planets and galaxies, and a Venus orbiter are to be considered for ESA’s fifth medium class mission in its Cosmic Vision science programme, with a planned launch date in 2032."

Spectroscopy from 12 to 230 μ Soft X-ray, X-gamma rays LEO orbit Image credit M5/EnVision Project M5/SPICA Project http://envisionvenus.eu M5/Theseus Project DAY 1 You are warmly invited to join •EnVision mission overview the international conference •Surface to discuss the scientific Magellan heritage investigations of ESA's DAY 2 EnVision mission. •Interior structure (radial : tidal, viscosity, crust, lithosphere structure) The conference will welcome •Activity detection all presentations related to DAY 3 the mission’s payload an its •Atmosphere VEx, Akatsuki Heritage science investigations. •Evolution Incl. Internal dynamics Thermal evolution Atm changes / outgassing

Image credit JAXA/DART/Damia Bouic http://envisionvenus.eu NASA/GSFC/U. Arizona The conference will take place in central Paris at CNES headquarters, salle de l'Espace.

Remote presenting / full videoconferencing available.

Please submit your abstract on the EnVision website by Dec. 18, 2019 Image credit Top: Apple, Inc http://envisionvenus.eu Bot.: Michel Freudiger Image credit Welcome reception – Tue Feb 11 19:00-21:30 ! Paris Observatory Paris Observatory (1667)!

Jacques Cassini, 1720 – BnF Gallica, Paris – Public Domain Virtual visit : http://350ans.obspm.fr/fr/paris Encyclopedia Britaznnica, 1911 – Project Gutenberg, London CNES Hq entrance

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