P42C:
Mars Science Laboratory's Prime Mission: An Exploration of Fluvial and Lacustrine Environments on Gale Crater's Plains I

Session ID#: 1875

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
2007 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Ashwin R Vasavada, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States and Michael A Meyer, NASA HQ, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Convener:  Ashwin R Vasavada, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Co-Convener:  Michael A Meyer, NASA HQ, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Ashwin R Vasavada, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
Index Terms:

5215 Origin of life [PLANETARY SCIENCES: ASTROBIOLOGY]
5455 Origin and evolution [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
6225 Mars [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
6297 Instruments and techniques [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Comparative Planetology and Habitability

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Geologic Framework for Aeolis Palus Bedrock, and Its Relationship to Mt. Sharp, Mars (Invited) (8244)
John P Grotzinger1, David Frederick Blake2, Joy A Crisp3, Kenneth S Edgett4, Ralf Gellert5, Sanjeev Gupta6, Kevin W Lewis7, Paul R Mahaffy8, Michael Charles Malin4, Horton E Newsom9, Timothy J Parker10, Melissa S Rice1, David M Rubin11, Kirsten Siebach12, Kathyrn Stack1, Dawn Y Sumner13, Roger C Wiens14, Rebecca M. E. Williams15 and MSL Science Team, (1)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)NASA Ames Research Center, Exobiology Branch, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, CA, United States, (5)University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, (6)Imperial College London, Department of Earth Science and Engineering, London, United Kingdom, (7)Princeton University, Princeton, United States, (8)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Planetary Environments Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States, (9)Univ New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (10)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (11)University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (12)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (13)University of California, Davis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, United States, (14)Space Science and Applications, Los Alamos, United States, (15)Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, United States
Making sense of martian sediments at the Kimberley, Gale crater (Invited) (5936)
Sanjeev Gupta1, David M Rubin2, Melissa S Rice3, Kevin W Lewis4, Kathyrn Stack3, Dawn Y Sumner5, John P Grotzinger6, Rebecca M. E. Williams7, Lauren A Edgar8, Kenneth S Edgett9, Linda C Kah10, Jan-Peter Muller11 and MSL Science Team, (1)Imperial College London, Department of Earth Science and Engineering, London, United Kingdom, (2)University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (3)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Princeton University, Princeton, United States, (5)University of California, Davis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, United States, (6)Caltech, Pasadena, United States, (7)Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, United States, (8)USGS, Astrogeology, Flagstaff, United States, (9)Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, CA, United States, (10)University of Tennessee, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Knoxville, TN, United States, (11)University College London, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, London, United Kingdom
Overview of the composition of sedimentary rocks along the Curiosity rover traverse (Invited) (6334)
Nicolas Mangold, LPGN Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique de Nantes, Nantes Cedex 03, France and MSL Team
Mineralogy of Fluvio-Lacustrine Sediments Investigated by Curiosity during the Prime Mission: Implications for Diagenesis (Invited) (6092)
Elizabeth B Rampe1, Richard V Morris1, David L Bish2, David T Vaniman3, Thomas Bristow4, Steve Chipera5, David Frederick Blake6, Douglas W Ming1, Jack D Farmer7, Shaunna M Morrison8, Allan H Treiman9, Cherie Achilles10, Joy A Crisp11, David J Des Marais6, Robert T Downs12, John Morookian11, Philippe Sarrazin13, Nicole Spanovich11, Albert Yen11 and MSL Science Team, (1)NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (2)Indiana University - Bloomington, Department of Chemistry, Bloomington 47405 IN, United States, (3)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States, (4)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States, (5)Chesapeake Energy, Oklahoma City, OK, United States, (6)NASA Ames Research Center, Exobiology Branch, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (7)Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States, (8)Carnegie Institution for Science, Earth and Planets Laboratory, Washington, United States, (9)Lunar & Planetary Inst, Houston, TX, United States, (10)Indiana University - Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States, (11)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (12)University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, (13)SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, CA, United States
Reconstructing Ancient Fluvial Environments at the Balmville and Dingo Gap Outcrops, Gale Crater, Mars (17803)
Lauren A Edgar1, David M Rubin2, Juergen Schieber3, Sanjeev Gupta4, Rebecca M. E. Williams5, Kathryn Stack6, Melissa S Rice6, John P Grotzinger7, Kevin W Lewis8, Michael Charles Malin9, Dawn Y Sumner10, Prof. James F Bell III, PhD11, Kenneth S Edgett9 and MSL Science Team, (1)USGS, Astrogeology, Flagstaff, United States, (2)University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (3)Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States, (4)Imperial College London, Department of Earth Science and Engineering, London, United Kingdom, (5)Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, United States, (6)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)Caltech, Pasadena, United States, (8)Princeton University, Princeton, United States, (9)Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, CA, United States, (10)University of California, Davis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, United States, (11)Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, United States
Curiosity in Situ Observations at Kylie, a Preview of the Kimberley Drill Site Geology (8652)
Rebecca M. E. Williams1, Melissa S Rice2, Kathyrn Stack2, John P Grotzinger3, Sanjeev Gupta4, David M Rubin5, Dawn Y Sumner6, Lauren A Edgar7, Kevin W Lewis8, Laetitia Le Deit9 and Roger C Wiens10, (1)Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, United States, (2)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Caltech, Pasadena, United States, (4)Imperial College London, Department of Earth Science and Engineering, London, United Kingdom, (5)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (6)University of California, Davis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, United States, (7)USGS, Astrogeology, Flagstaff, United States, (8)Princeton University, Princeton, United States, (9)University of Nantes, Nantes, France, (10)Space Science and Applications, Los Alamos, United States
Sandstone Diagenesis at Gale Crater, Mars, As Observed By Curiosity (9521)
Kirsten Siebach, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, John P Grotzinger, Caltech, Pasadena, United States, Scott M McLennan, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States, Joel Hurowitz, Stony Brook University, Geosciences, Stony Brook, NY, United States, Linda C Kah, University of Tennessee, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Knoxville, TN, United States, Kenneth S Edgett, Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, CA, United States, Rebecca M. E. Williams, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, United States, Roger C Wiens, Space Science and Applications, Los Alamos, United States, Juergen Schieber, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States and MSL Science Team
Fluids and Sulfate Vein Formation in Gale Crater, Mars. (12986)
Susanne P Schwenzer, Open University, AstrobiologyOU, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, John Bridges, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom, Richard J Leveille, McGill University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada, Frances Westall, CNRS, Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, Paris Cedex 16, France, Roger C Wiens, Space Science and Applications, Los Alamos, United States, Nicolas Mangold, LPGN Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique de Nantes, Nantes Cedex 03, France, Amy McAdam, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Planetary Environments Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Pamela Gales Conrad, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Javier Martín-Torres, Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra, Granada, Spain and María-Paz Zorzano, INTA-CSIC, Madrid, Spain
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