P23E:
Volatiles in the Martian Crust I

Session ID#: 2128

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
2009 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Justin Filiberto, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, IL, United States and Pamela Gales Conrad, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
Primary Convener:  Justin Filiberto, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, IL, United States
Co-conveners:  Susanne P Schwenzer, The Open University, AstrobiologyOU, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom and Pamela Gales Conrad, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Justin Filiberto, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, IL, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • MR - Mineral and Rock Physics
  • V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Index Terms:

0406 Astrobiology and extraterrestrial materials [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
5220 Hydrothermal systems and weathering on other planets [PLANETARY SCIENCES: ASTROBIOLOGY]
5415 Erosion and weathering [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
5419 Hydrology and fluvial processes [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Volatile Cycles: Linking Earth’s Interior and its Atmosphere

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Smectite Formation in Gale Crater, Mars and in the Nakhlite Martian Meteorites (Invited) (2680)
John Bridges1, Susanne P Schwenzer2, Richard J Leveille3, Frances Westall4, Roger C Wiens5, Nicolas Mangold6, Thomas Bristow7 and Peter Edwards1, (1)University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom, (2)Open University, AstrobiologyOU, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, (3)McGill University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada, (4)CNRS, Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, Paris Cedex 16, France, (5)Space Science and Applications, Los Alamos, United States, (6)LPGN Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique de Nantes, Nantes Cedex 03, France, (7)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States
The D/H Ratio of the Martian Water That Formed the Yellowknife Bay Mudstone Rocks Measured By the MSL-SAM Instrument (Invited) (3676)
Paul R Mahaffy1, Christopher R Webster2, Anna Brunner3, Amy McAdam3, Gregory Flesch2, Jennifer C Stern3, Jennifer L Eigenbrode3, Pamela Gales Conrad1, Alexander Pavlov3, Charles Malespin1, Sushil K Atreya4, Jennifer G Blank5, Tobias C Owen6 and MSL Science Team, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (5)Blue Marble Space Institute of Science & NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States, (6)Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States
Possible Global Distribution of Reduced Carbon in Surface Sediments on Mars: Evidence from Volatiles Released from the Rocknest Eolian Drift, Gale Crater (9278)
Jennifer L Eigenbrode1, Andrew Steele2, Heather B. Franz3, Brad Sutter4, Paul R Mahaffy5, Pamela Gales Conrad5, Amy McAdam5, Roger E Summons6 and MSL Science Team, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Carnegie Science, Earth and Planets Laboratory, Washington, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (4)Amentum, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Planetary Environments Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
Chlorine and Sulfur Volatiles from in Situ Measurements of Martian Surface Materials (Invited) (3689)
Benton C Clark, Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO, United States
SAM Chlorine Observations at Gale Crater (25618)
Pamela Gales Conrad1, Kenneth A Farley2, Paulo Marcos Vasconcelos3, Charles Malespin1, Heather B. Franz4, Amy McAdam5, Brad Sutter6, Jennifer C Stern7, Benton C Clark8, Sushil K Atreya9, Paul R Mahaffy10, Javier Martín-Torres11 and María-Paz Zorzano12, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (2)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Center for Research and Exploration in Space Science and Technology, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Planetary Environments Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)Amentum, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (9)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (10)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Planetary Environments Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States, (11)Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra, Granada, Spain, (12)Centro de Astrobiologia, Madrid, Spain
Continued Evidence for Input of Chlorine into the Martian Crust from Degassing of Chlorine-Rich Martian Magmas with Implications for Potential Habitability (8675)
Justin Filiberto, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, IL, United States and Juliane Gross, Am. Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, United States
Fluorine observations by ChemCam: A tracer of magmatic and hydrothermal processes in the martian crust (15190)
Olivier Forni, Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (IRAP), Toulouse, France, Michael J Toplis, CNRS/IRAP, University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France, Samuel M Clegg, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, Roger C Wiens, Space Science and Applications, Los Alamos, United States, Olivier Gasnault, IRAP, Toulouse, France, Violaine Sautter, MNHN National Museum of Natural History Paris, Paris, France, Nicolas Mangold, LPGN Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique de Nantes, Nantes Cedex 03, France, Sylvestre Maurice, IRAP, CNRS, Université de Toulouse, UPS-OMP, Toulouse, France and ChemCam and MSL Science Teams
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