P24A:
There and Back Again: Biosignature Detection in Terrestrial Analog Environments for Mars Sample Return I

Session ID#: 3732

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
2009 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Michael L Tuite Jr, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Kenneth H Williford, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Alexandra Pontefract, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States and Haley M Sapers, University of Western Ontario, Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration, London, ON, Canada
Primary Convener:  Michael L Tuite Jr, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Kenneth H Williford, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Alexandra Pontefract, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States and Haley M Sapers, University of Western Ontario, Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration, London, ON, Canada
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • B - Biogeosciences
Index Terms:
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The Mars 2020 Mission: The Next Step Forward in Mars Exploration (31670)
Michael A Meyer, NASA HQ, Washington, DC, United States and Mitchell D Schulte, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
Exploration for Evidence of Habitable Environments and Life on Mars Can Benefit from Research in Analog Environments (20722)
David J Des Marais, NASA Ames Research Center, Exobiology Branch, Moffett Field, CA, United States
Capturing Evidence for Past Life in the Martian Loess (29429)
Peter H Schultz, Brown University, Providence, United States, R. Scott Harris, Fernbank Science Center, Atlanta, United States, Simon J Clemett, ESGC/Jacobs, at NASA/JSC, Houston, TX, United States, Kathie L Thomas-Keprta, ESGC/Jacobs, at NASA/JSC, Houston, United States and Marcelo Zarate, Instituto de Ciencias de la Tierra y Ambientales de la Pampa, La Pampa, Argentina
Search for Life in Deep Time and Space: The role of Precambrian rocks in analogue research (Invited) (16647)
Barbara Sherwood Lollar1, Chelsea N Sutcliffe1, Chris J. Ballentine2, Tullis C Onstott3, Chui Yim Maggie Lau Vetter3, Cara Magnabosco4, Greg F Slater5 and Duane P Moser6, (1)University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, (2)University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom, (3)Princeton University, Department of Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, (4)Simons Foundation, Flatiron Institute Center for Computational Biology, New York, NY, United States, (5)McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, (6)Desert Research Institute Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, United States
In situ Raman spectroscopy and confocal microscopy of 2.5-billion-year-old fossil microorganisms: viable nondestructive techniques for the study of returned Martian samples (Invited) (25634)
Andrew D Czaja, University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Department of Geosciences, Cincinnati, United States and Kira Lorber, University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Cincinnati, OH, United States
SHERLOC: Scanning Habitable Environments With Raman & Luminescence for Organics & Chemicals, an Investigation for 2020 (30145)
Luther W Beegle1, Rohit Bhartia2, Lauren P DeFlores3, Sandy A Asher4, Aaron Burton5, Samuel M Clegg6, Pamela Gales Conrad7, Kenneth S Edgett8, Bethany L Ehlmann9, Falko Langenhorst10, Marc Fries11, Kenneth H Nealson12, Jürgen Popp13, Pablo Sobron14, Andrew Steele15, Roger C Wiens16 and Kenneth H Williford3, (1)Melanie Sauer & Associates LLC, Sierra Madre, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Campus, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, (5)NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, United States, (6)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (8)Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, CA, United States, (9)California Institute of Technology, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States, (10)Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Jena, Germany, (11)NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (12)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States, (13)Friedrich-Schiller University, Institute for Physical Chemistry & Abbe School of Photonics, Jena, Germany, (14)SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA, United States, (15)Carnegie Science, Earth and Planets Laboratory, Washington, United States, (16)Space Science and Applications, Los Alamos, United States
Seeking Ancient Microbial Biosignatures With PIXL on Mars 2020 (27220)
Abigail Allwood1, Joel Hurowitz2, Lawrence Wade A Wade1, Robert P Hodyss3 and David Timothy Flannery3, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (2)Stony Brook University, Geosciences, Stony Brook, NY, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
The Value of Analog Research in the Search for Life (Invited) (18694)
Mary A Voytek, NASA, Washington, DC, United States
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