P34A:
Alteration and Secondary Phases on Mars: Indicators of Habitable Environments I

Session ID#: 3609

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
2011 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Nina Lanza, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Craig J Hardgrove, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
Primary Convener:  Nina Lanza, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Co-conveners:  Craig J Hardgrove, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States and Nina Lanza, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Nina Lanza, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
Index Terms:

1060 Planetary geochemistry [GEOCHEMISTRY]
5415 Erosion and weathering [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
5470 Surface materials and properties [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:

Constraints on the Crystal Chemistry of Fe/Mg-Rich Smectitic Clays on Mars and Links to Global Alteration Trends (7053)
Joseph R Michalski, Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States, Javier Cuadros, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom, Vesselin Mitev Dekov, IFREMER, Brest, France, Melinda Darby Dyar, Mount Holyoke College, Department of Astronomy, South Hadley, United States, Janice L Bishop, SETI Institute, Carl Sagan Center, Mountain View, United States and Natasha Stephen, The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom
Structural and Spectral Characteristics of Amorphous Iron Sulfates (Invited) (6025)
Ms. Elizabeth Sklute, PhD, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, Heidi B Jensen, Stony Brook Univ-Geosciences, Stony Brook, NY, United States, Deanne Rogers, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States and Richard J Reeder, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY, United States
Wishstone to Watchtower: Alteration of Plagioclase-rich Rocks in Gusev Crater, Mars (Invited) (5537)
Steven W Ruff, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, United States and Victoria E Hamilton, Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Phosphates at the Surface of Mars: Primary Deposits and Alteration Products (8944)
Albert S Yen, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Ralf Gellert, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, Benton C Clark, Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, Douglas W Ming, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, David W Mittlefehldt, NASA/Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, Raymond E Arvidson, Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States, Harry Y McSween Jr, University of Tennessee, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Knoxville, TN, United States, Christian Schröder, University of Stirling, Biological and Environmental Sciences, Stirling, United Kingdom and Athena and MSL Science Teams
Apxs Chemical Composition of the Kimberley Sandstone in Gale Crater (11362)
Ralf Gellert1, Nick Boyd1, John L Campbell1, Scott VanBommel2, Lucy M Thompson3, Mariek E Schmidt4, Jeff A. Berger5, Benton C Clark6, John P Grotzinger7, Albert S Yen8, Martin FISK9 and the MSL APXS Science Team, (1)University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, (2)University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada, (3)University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada, (4)Brock University, St Catharines, ON, Canada, (5)University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, (6)Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)Caltech, Pasadena, United States, (8)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (9)Oregon State Univ, Corvallis, OR, United States
Observations of high manganese layers by the Curiosity rover at the Kimberley, Gale crater, Mars (30426)
Nina Lanza1, Roger C Wiens2, Woodward W Fischer3, John P Grotzinger4, Agnes Cousin5, Melissa S Rice6, Benton C Clark7, Raymond E Arvidson8, Joel Hurowitz9, Ralf Gellert10, Scott M McLennan11, Sylvestre Maurice12, Nicolas Mangold13, Stephane Le Mouelic14, Ryan B Anderson15, Marion Nachon16, Ann Ollila17, Mariek E Schmidt18, Jeffrey A Berger10, Jennifer G Blank19, Samuel M Clegg20, Olivier Forni21, Craig J Hardgrove22, Keian Hardy23, Jeffrey Roy Johnson24, Nouredine Melikechi25, Horton E Newsom26, Violaine Sautter27, Javier Martín-Torres28 and María-Paz Zorzano28, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Purdue University, West Lafayette, United States, (3)Caltech, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, United States, (4)Caltech, Pasadena, United States, (5)IRAP, Toulouse, France, (6)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States, (9)Stony Brook University, Geosciences, Stony Brook, NY, United States, (10)University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, (11)Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States, (12)IRAP, CNRS, Université de Toulouse, UPS-OMP, Toulouse, France, (13)LPGN Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique de Nantes, Nantes Cedex 03, France, (14)CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France, (15)USGS Astrogeology Science Center, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (16)University of Nantes, Nantes, France, (17)Chevron Corporation Houston, Houston, TX, United States, (18)Brock University, St Catharines, ON, Canada, (19)Blue Marble Space Institute of Science & NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States, (20)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (21)Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (IRAP), Toulouse, France, (22)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (23)US Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, United States, (24)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (25)Delaware State University, Dover, DE, United States, (26)Univ New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (27)MNHN, CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France, (28)Centro de Astrobiologia, Madrid, Spain
Visible and near-infrared spectra of manganese oxides: Detecting high manganese phases in Curiosity Mastcam multispectral images (14102)
Craig J Hardgrove, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, Nina Lanza, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Prof. James F Bell III, PhD, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, United States, Roger C Wiens, Space Science and Applications, Los Alamos, United States, Jeffrey Roy Johnson, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States and Richard V Morris, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States
Manganese in Endeavour Crater Rim Materials, Mars, and Implications for Habitability (7327)
Raymond E Arvidson1, Jeffrey G Catalano2, Benton C Clark3, Woodward W Fischer4, John P Grotzinger5, Ralf Gellert6, Edward A Guinness7, Kenneth E Herkenhoff8, Jeffrey Roy Johnson9, Scott M McLennan10, Douglas W Ming11, Richard V Morris11, Steven W Squyres12 and Albert S Yen13, (1)Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States, (2)Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States, (3)Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Caltech, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, United States, (5)Caltech, Pasadena, United States, (6)University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, (7)Washington University in St Louis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, St. Louis, United States, (8)USGS Astrogeology Science Center, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (9)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (10)Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States, (11)NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (12)Cornell Univ, Ithaca, NY, United States, (13)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
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