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
Searching for Life in Death Valley (and Other Deserts) – Microchemical Investigations on Desert Varnish (8573)
Meinrat O Andreae1,2, Abdullah Mohammed Al-Amri1, Klaus P Jochum3, Michael Kappl4, A David Kilcoyne5, Dorothea Macholdt2, Maren Müller4, Christopher Pöhlker6, Bettina Weber6 and Markus Weigand7, (1)King Saud University, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, (2)Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany, (3)Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Climate Geochemistry, Mainz, Germany, (4)Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany, (5)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (6)Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Multiphase Chemistry Department, Mainz, Germany, (7)Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany
Standoff Time-Resolved Laser-Based Spectroscopy Tools for Sample Characterization and Biosignature Detection (13469)
Patrick James Gasda1, Tayro Acosta-Maeda2, Paul G Lucey3, Anupam K Misra4, Dr. Shiv K Sharma, Ph. D.5 and Jeffrey Taylor2, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (2)Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, Honolulu, HI, United States, (3)Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, Honolulu, United States, (4)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, Honolulu, United States, (5)Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, Earth Sciences, Honolulu, United States
Biogeochemical Heterogeneity in Mars Analog Soils from the Atacama Desert (16619)
Mark Claire1, Brian Shirey2, Michael Scott Brown3, Dian Anderson4 and Michael Van Mourik4, (1)University of St Andrews, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, St Andrews, KY16, United Kingdom, (2)University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States, (3)Rutgers University, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (4)University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom
Analysis of In-Situ Organic and Mineral Compounds Relevant to Martian Astrobiology Using 266 nm Raman Spectroscopy (16726)
Evan Eshelman1, Michael G Daly1, Greg F Slater2, Peter Dietrich3, Jean-Francois Gravel4 and Edward Cloutis5, (1)York University, Toronto, ON, Canada, (2)McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, (3)MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd., Richmond, BC, Canada, (4)Institut national d'optique, Quebec, QC, Canada, (5)University of Winnipeg, Department of Geography, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
The Mars Oxygen ISRU Experiment (MOXIE) on the yet-to-be-named Mars 2020 Lander (29096)
Michael H. Hecht1, Jeffrey Hoffman2, Donald Rapp3, Gerald Voecks4, Klaus S. Lackner5, Joseph Hartvigsen6, Bilge Yildiz2, Peter H Smith7, William T Pike8, Christopher Graves9, Manuel de la Torre Juarez4, Samuel Schreiner2, Morten B Madsen10 and the MOXIE development team, (1)MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States, (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory (ret.), Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Columbia University, New York, NY, United States, (6)Ceramatec, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (7)Space Exploration Instruments, Tucson, AZ, United States, (8)Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (9)Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, (10)Niels Bohr Institute - University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
NOx in the atmospheres of aquaplanets as electron acceptors for life (16641)
Michael L Wong, California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological & Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States, Yuk L Yung, California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States and Michael J Russell, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Field Comparisons of Three Biomarker Detection Methods in Icelandic Mars Analogue Environments (20822)
Diana Gentry1, Elena Sophia Amador2, Morgan L Cable3, Nosheen Chaudry4, Thomas Cullen4, Malene B Jacobsen5, Gayathri Murukesan6, Edward Schwieterman7, Adam Stevens8, Amanda M. Stockton9, Chang Yin10, David Cullen4 and Wolf Geppert10, (1)Stanford University, Stanford, United States, (2)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (4)Cranfield University, Cranfield, United Kingdom, (5)University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, (6)University of Turku, Turku, Finland, (7)University of California Riverside, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Riverside, CA, United States, (8)The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, (9)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Atlanta, United States, (10)Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Sample Return Science (30286)
Kenneth H Williford1, Abigail Allwood2, Luther W Beegle1, Rohit Bhartia3, David Timothy Flannery4, Adam Hoffmann1, Maria F. Mora5, Jorge Orbay1, Daniel A Petrizzo1, Michael L Tuite Jr1 and Peter A Willis6, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology., Pasadena, United States, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Spatially Resolved Chemical Imaging for Biosignature Analysis: Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Examples (30713)
Rohit Bhartia1, Greg Wanger1, Victoria J Orphan2, Marc Fries3, Annette R Rowe4, Kenneth H Nealson5, William Abbey1, Lauren P DeFlores6 and Luther W Beegle7, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, United States, (3)NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (4)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (5)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States, (6)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)Melanie Sauer & Associates LLC, Sierra Madre, United States
Remotely Detectable Biosignatures of Anoxygenic Phototrophs (30939)
Mary Nichole Parenteau1,2, Nancy Y Kiang3, Robert E. Blankenship4, Esther Sanromá5,6, Enric Palle Bago5,6, Tori M Hoehler2 and Beverly K. Pierson7, (1)SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, United States, (2)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, (4)Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States, (5)Universidad de La Laguna, Departamento de Astrofísica, La Laguna, Spain, (6)Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain, (7)University of Puget Sound, Biology Department, Tacoma, WA, United States
New Method for the Detection of Organosulfur Biosignatures in Mars-Analog Terrestrial Sedimentary Facies (31132)
Maria F. Mora1, Michael L Tuite Jr2, Adam Hoffmann2, Peter A Willis3 and Kenneth H Williford2, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology., Pasadena, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States