P32A:
Reconstructing Habitable Environments on Ancient Mars I

Session ID#: 3438

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
2007 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Briony H N Horgan, Purdue University, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States; Purdue University, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States and Melissa S Rice, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, United States
Primary Convener:  Briony H N Horgan, Purdue University, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States; Purdue University, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States
Co-Convener:  Melissa S Rice, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Briony H N Horgan, Purdue University, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
Index Terms:

5215 Origin of life [PLANETARY SCIENCES: ASTROBIOLOGY]
5410 Composition [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
5419 Hydrology and fluvial processes [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
6225 Mars [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Comparative Planetology and Habitability

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

P32A-01
Insights and Challenges for Using the Early Earth to Understand Potentially Habitable Environments on Mars (Invited) (25764)
Nathan D Sheldon, University of Michigan, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
P32A-02
Models of Metabolic Community Structure in Martian Habitable Environments: Constraints from a Terrestrial Analog Acid-Sulfate Fumarole Environment, Cerro Negro Volcano, Nicaragua (Invited) (25952)
Karyn L Rogers, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, United States, Thomas M McCollom, University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States and Brian M Hynek, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
P32A-03
The Impact Environment of Ancient Mars: Implications for Habitability (26699)
Oleg Abramov, USGS Astrogeology Science Center, Flagstaff, AZ, United States and Stephen J Mojzsis, University of Colorado & Universite Lyon 1, Boulder, United States
P32A-04
Reconstructing Habitable Environments on a Late Noachian Icy Mars: Causes, Frequencies and Durations of Melting, Fate of Meltwater, and Biological Insights from the McMurdo Dry Valleys. James W. Head, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912 USA (22285)
James W Head III, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, United States
P32A-05
Accessing Surface and Subsurface Habitable Environments of Ancient Mars (23242)
John F Mustard, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, United States
P32A-06
Habitability and preservation from source to sink: Evidence for habitable surface environments in soils on early Mars and their possible contribution to fluvial deposits (24876)
Briony H N Horgan, Purdue University, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States
P32A-07
Ancient deltas on Mars: outstanding targets for martian habitability? (Invited) (5937)
Sanjeev Gupta, Imperial College London, Department of Earth Science and Engineering, London, United Kingdom, Peter Fawdon, Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, Peter M Grindrod, University College London, London, United Kingdom, Matthew R Balme, The Open University, School of Physical Sciences, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, Ernst Hauber, German Aerospace Center DLR Berlin, Institute of Planetary Research, Berlin, Germany, Nicholas H Warner, SUNY at Geneseo, Department of Geological Sciences, Geneseo, NY, United States and Jan-Peter Muller, University College London, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, London, United Kingdom
P32A-08
Investigating the Habitability and Preservation Potential of Two Aqueous Settings in Gusev Crater, Mars (Invited) (6116)
Steven W Ruff1, Jack D Farmer2, Ralph Milliken3, Paul B Niles4, Fabrizio Alfano5, Amanda B Clarke2, Michael D Kraft2 and Craig J Hardgrove2, (1)Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, United States, (2)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (3)Brown University, Providence, United States, (4)NASA Johnson SFC, Houston, TX, United States, (5)Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States
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