P43D:
Mars Science Laboratory's Prime Mission: An Exploration of Fluvial and Lacustrine Environments on Gale Crater's Plains II Posters

Session ID#: 4549

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Poster Hall (Moscone_South)
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:

 
In Situ Analysis of Mars Soil and Rocks Sample with the Sam Gcms Instrumentation Onboard Curiosity : Interpretation and Comparison of Measurements Done during the First Martian Year of Curiosity on Mars (10926)
Cyril Szopa1, Patrice J Coll2, Michel Cabane3, Arnaud Buch4, David Coscia3, Maëva Millan5, Pascaline Francois2, Imene Belmahadi6, Samuel Teinturier7, Rafael Navarro-Gonzalez8, Daniel Patrick Glavin9, Caroline Freissinet10, Andrew Steele11, Jennifer L Eigenbrode7, Paul R Mahaffy12 and MSL team, (1)Université Versailles St-Quentin, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ. Paris 06, CNRS, LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris, France, (2)LISA, Creteil Cedex, France, (3)LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris Cedex 05, France, (4)LGPM Laboratoire Génie des Procédés et les Matériaux, Châtenay-Malabry, France, (5)LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Guyancourt, France, (6)LGPM Laboratoire Génie des Procédés et les Matériaux, Châtenay-Malabry Cedex, France, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Mexico City, DF, Mexico, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Solar System Exploration Division, Greenbelt, United States, (10)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Postdoctoral Program, Greenbelt, United States, (11)Carnegie Science, Earth and Planets Laboratory, Washington, United States, (12)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Planetary Environments Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States
 
Determination of the Possible Source of Chlorinated Hydrocarbons Detected By SAM during MSL Mission (11070)
Arnaud Buch1, Imene Belmahdi2, Cyril Szopa3, Caroline Freissinet4, Daniel Patrick Glavin5, Pascaline Francois6, Patrice J Coll6, Kristen Miller7, Jennifer L Eigenbrode8, Jennifer C Stern8, Rafael Navarro-Gonzalez9, Amy McAdam10, Samuel Teinturier8, jean-Yves Bonnet11, Roger E Summons12, Maëva Millan13, Tristan Dequaire6, Michel Cabane11, Paul R Mahaffy14 and MSL Team, (1)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (2)ecole centrale Paris, LGPM, Chatenay Malabry, France, (3)Université Versailles St-Quentin, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ. Paris 06, CNRS, LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris, France, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Postdoctoral Program, Greenbelt, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Solar System Exploration Division, Greenbelt, United States, (6)LISA, Creteil Cedex, France, (7)MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, United States, (8)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (9)Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Mexico City, DF, Mexico, (10)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Planetary Environments Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (11)LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris Cedex 05, France, (12)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (13)LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Guyancourt, France, (14)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Planetary Environments Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States
 
Comparing MSL ChemCam Analyses to Shergottite and Terrestrial Rock Types (15250)
Peter Edwards1, John Bridges1, Melinda Darby Dyar2, Martin FISK3, Susanne P Schwenzer4, Olivier Forni5 and Roger C Wiens6, (1)University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom, (2)Mount Holyoke College, Department of Astronomy, South Hadley, United States, (3)Oregon State Univ, Corvallis, OR, United States, (4)Open University, AstrobiologyOU, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, (5)Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (IRAP), Toulouse, France, (6)Space Science and Applications, Los Alamos, United States
 
Long-term Passive Mode Data Measured by the Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons (DAN) Instrument onboard Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) and Comparison to REMS Surface Pressure and Temperature Measurements (17848)
Insoo Jun1, Igor G. Mitrofanov2, Maxim L Litvak2, Anton B. Sanin2, Javier Martín-Torres3, María-Paz Zorzano4, William V Boynton5, Fedor Fedosov2, Dmitry Golovin2, Craig J Hardgrove6, Karl Harshman5, Alexander Kozyrev2, Ruslan Kuzmin2, Alexey V Malakhov2, Michael Mischna7, Jeffrey Moersch8, Maxim Mokrousov2, Sergey Nikiforov2, Christopher G Tate9 and The MSL Science Team, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Space Research Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia, (3)Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra, Granada, Spain, (4)INTA-CSIC, Madrid, Spain, (5)University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, AZ, United States, (6)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (7)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (8)University of Tennessee, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Knoxville, United States, (9)University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States
 
Characteristics and Origin of a Cratered Unit near the MSL Bradbury Landing Site (Gale Crater, Mars) Based on Analyses of Surface Data and Orbital Images (19959)
Samantha Jacob, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, Scott Kaniela Rowland, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Department of Earth Sciences, Honolulu, United States, Kenneth S Edgett, Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, CA, United States, Linda C Kah, University of Tennessee, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Knoxville, TN, United States, Roger C Wiens, Space Science and Applications, Los Alamos, United States, Mackenzie D Day, University of Washington Seattle, Seattle, United States, Fred Calef, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Marisa C Palucis, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Ryan B Anderson, USGS Astrogeology Science Center, Flagstaff, AZ, United States and MSL Science Team
 
Banding in Mount Sharp, Gale Crater: Stratigraphy, Strandlines, or Buttress Unconformities? (24766)
Timothy J Parker, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, William E Dietrich, University of California Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, United States, Marisa C Palucis, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Fred J Calef III, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States and Horton E Newsom, Univ New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States
 
Compositional and Physical Properties of Materials Along Curiosity’s Traverse Inferred from CRISM Hyperspectral Data (26009)
Abigail A Fraeman1, Raymond E Arvidson2, Bethany L Ehlmann3, John P Grotzinger1, Victoria E Hamilton4, Javier Martín-Torres5 and María-Paz Zorzano5, (1)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States, (3)California Institute of Technology, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)Centro de Astrobiologia, Madrid, Spain
 
Visible to Near-IR Spectral Units Along the MSL Gale Crater Traverse: Comparison of In Situ Mastcam and Orbital CRISM Observations (27674)
Danika F Wellington, Arizona State University, Tempe, United States, Prof. James F Bell III, PhD, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, United States, Austin Godber, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, Kjartan Münster Kinch, University of Copenhagen, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark, Abigail A Fraeman, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Bethany L Ehlmann, California Institute of Technology, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States, Raymond E Arvidson, Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States, Melissa S Rice, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, United States, Jeffrey Roy Johnson, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States and the MSL Science Team
 
Evaluation of Sedimentary and Terrain Parameters from MARDI Camera Imaging and Stereogrammetry at Gale Crater (27668)
Michelle E Minitti, Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States, James Brian Garvin, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, R Aileen Yingst, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, United States and Justin Maki, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
 
Multivariate Statistical Analysis of MSL APXS Bulk Geochemical Data (31082)
Victoria E Hamilton, Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Christopher S Edwards, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Lucy M Thompson, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada and Mariek E Schmidt, Brock University, St Catharines, ON, Canada
 
Mars Science Laboratory Sample Acquisition, Sample Processing and Handling Subsystem: A Description of the Sampling Functionality of the System after being on the Surface for Two Years. (31186)
Robert C Anderson1, Luther W Beegle2 and William Abbey1, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Melanie Sauer & Associates LLC, Sierra Madre, United States
 
Mars Rover Curiosity Traverses of Sand Ripples (16792)
Nathaniel Stein1, Raymond E Arvidson2, Feng Zhou2, Matthew Heverly3, Mark Maimone3, Frank Hartman3, Paolo Bellutta3, Karl Iagnemma4 and Carmine Senatore4, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
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