P42C:
Mars Science Laboratory's Prime Mission: An Exploration of Fluvial and Lacustrine Environments on Gale Crater's Plains I

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Ashwin R Vasavada, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Michael A Meyer, NASA HQ, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Conveners:  Ashwin R Vasavada, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Michael A Meyer, NASA HQ, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Ashwin R Vasavada, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
 
Geologic Framework for Aeolis Palus Bedrock, and Its Relationship to Mt. Sharp, Mars
John P Grotzinger1, David Frederick Blake2, Joy A Crisp3, Kenneth S Edgett4, Ralf Gellert5, Sanjeev Gupta6, Kevin W Lewis7, Paul R Mahaffy8, Michael Charles Malin4, Horton E Newsom9, Timothy J Parker10, Melissa S Rice1, David M Rubin11, Kirsten L Siebach1, Kathyrn Stack1, Dawn Y Sumner12, Roger C Wiens13 and Rebecca M. E. Williams14, (1)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, CA, United States, (5)University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, (6)Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (7)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (8)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (9)Univ New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (10)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (11)University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (12)University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (13)Space Science and Applications, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (14)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States
10:35 AM
 
Making sense of martian sediments at the Kimberley, Gale crater
Sanjeev Gupta1, David M Rubin2, Melissa S Rice3, Kevin W Lewis4, Kathyrn Stack3, Dawn Y Sumner5, John P Grotzinger6, Rebecca M. E. Williams7, Lauren A Edgar8, Kenneth S Edgett9, Linda C Kah10 and Jan-Peter Muller11, (1)Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (2)University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (3)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (5)University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (6)Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States, (8)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (9)Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, CA, United States, (10)University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States, (11)University College London, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, London, United Kingdom
10:50 AM
 
Overview of the composition of sedimentary rocks along the Curiosity rover traverse
Nicolas Mangold, LPGN Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique de Nantes, Nantes Cedex 03, France
11:05 AM
 
Mineralogy of Fluvio-Lacustrine Sediments Investigated by Curiosity during the Prime Mission: Implications for Diagenesis
Elizabeth B Rampe1, Richard V Morris2, David L Bish3, David T Vaniman4, Thomas Bristow5, Steve Chipera6, David Frederick Blake5, Douglas W Ming2, Jack Farmer7, Shaunna M Morrison8, Allan H Treiman9, Cherie Achilles3, Joy Crisp10, David J Des Marais5, Robert T Downs11, John Michael Morookian10, Philippe Sarrazin12, Nicole Spanovich10 and Albert Yen10, (1)Aerodyne Technologies at NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (2)NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (3)Indiana University - Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States, (4)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Simi Valley, CA, United States, (5)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (6)Chesapeake Energy, Oklahoma City, OK, United States, (7)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (8)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (9)Lunar & Planetary Inst, Houston, TX, United States, (10)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (11)University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, (12)SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, CA, United States
11:20 AM
 
Reconstructing Ancient Fluvial Environments at the Balmville and Dingo Gap Outcrops, Gale Crater, Mars
Lauren A Edgar1, David M Rubin2, Juergen Schieber3, Sanjeev Gupta4, Rebecca M. E. Williams5, Kathryn Stack6, Melissa S Rice6, John P Grotzinger7, Kevin W Lewis8, Michael Charles Malin9, Dawn Y Sumner10, James F Bell III1 and Kenneth S Edgett9, (1)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (2)University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (3)Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States, (4)Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (5)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States, (6)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, (8)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (9)Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, CA, United States, (10)University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States
11:35 AM
 
Curiosity in Situ Observations at Kylie, a Preview of the Kimberley Drill Site Geology
Rebecca M. E. Williams1, Melissa S Rice2, Kathyrn Stack2, John P Grotzinger3, Sanjeev Gupta4, David M Rubin5, Dawn Y Sumner6, Lauren A Edgar7, Kevin W Lewis8, Laetitia Le Deit9 and Roger C Wiens10, (1)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (5)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (6)University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (7)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (8)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (9)University of Nantes, Nantes, France, (10)Space Science and Applications, Los Alamos, NM, United States
11:50 AM
 
Sandstone Diagenesis at Gale Crater, Mars, As Observed By Curiosity
Kirsten L Siebach1, John P Grotzinger1, Scott M McLennan2, Joel Hurowitz2, Linda C Kah3, Kenneth S Edgett4, Rebecca M. E. Williams5, Roger C Wiens6 and Juergen Schieber7, (1)Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States, (3)University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States, (4)Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, CA, United States, (5)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States, (6)Space Science and Applications, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (7)Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States
12:05 PM
 
Fluids and Sulfate Vein Formation in Gale Crater, Mars.
Susanne P Schwenzer, Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7, United Kingdom, John Bridges, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1, United Kingdom, Richard J Leveille, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, Frances Westall, CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France, Roger C Wiens, Space Science and Applications, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Nicolas Mangold, LPGN Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique de Nantes, Nantes Cedex 03, France, Amy McAdam, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Planetary Environments Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Pamela Gales Conrad, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Javier Martín-Torres, Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra, Granada, Spain and Maria-Paz Zorzano, INTA-CSIC, Madrid, Spain
 
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