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

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Nina Lanza, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Craig J Hardgrove, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
Primary Conveners:  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 Liaisons:  Nina Lanza, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

4:00 PM
 
Constraints on the Crystal Chemistry of Fe/Mg-Rich Smectitic Clays on Mars and Links to Global Alteration Trends
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, South Hadley, MA, United States, Janice L Bishop, SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, CA, United States and Natasha Stephen, The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom
4:15 PM
 
Structural and Spectral Characteristics of Amorphous Iron Sulfates
Elizabeth Sklute, Mount Holyoke College, Astronomy, South Hadley, MA, 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
4:30 PM
 
Wishstone to Watchtower: Alteration of Plagioclase-rich Rocks in Gusev Crater, Mars
Steven W Ruff, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States and Victoria E Hamilton, Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
4:45 PM
 
Phosphates at the Surface of Mars: Primary Deposits and Alteration Products
Albert S Yen, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, Ralf Gellert, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, Benton C Clark, Space Science Institute Boulder, 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, Knoxville, TN, United States and Christian Schröder, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scottland, United Kingdom
5:00 PM
 
Apxs Chemical Composition of the Kimberley Sandstone in Gale Crater
Ralf Gellert1, Nick Boyd1, John L Campbell1, Scott VanBommel2, Lucy Thompson3, Mariek E Schmidt4, Jeff A. Berger5, Benton C Clark6, John P Grotzinger7, Albert S Yen8 and Martin R Fisk9, (1)University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, (2)University of Guelph, Norwich, ON, Canada, (3)University of New Brunswick, Earth Sciences, Fredericton, NB, Canada, (4)Brock University, St Catharines, ON, Canada, (5)University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, (6)Space Science Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, (8)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (9)Oregon State Univ, Corvallis, OR, United States
5:15 PM
 
Observations of high manganese layers by the Curiosity rover at the Kimberley, Gale crater, Mars
Nina Lanza1, Roger C Wiens1, Woodward W Fischer2, John P Grotzinger2, Agnes Cousin1, Melissa S Rice3, Benton C Clark4, Raymond E Arvidson5, Joel Hurowitz6, Ralf Gellert7, Scott M McLennan6, Sylvestre Maurice8, Nicolas Mangold9, Stephane Le Mouelic10, Ryan B Anderson11, Marion Nachon12, Ann Ollila13, Mariek E Schmidt14, Jeffrey A Berger15, Jennifer G Blank16, Samuel M Clegg1, Olivier Forni8, Craig J Hardgrove17, Keian Hardy18, Jeffrey Roy Johnson19, Noureddine Melikechi20, Horton E Newsom21, Violaine Sautter10, Javier Martín-Torres22 and Maria-Paz Zorzano22, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Space Science Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States, (6)Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States, (7)University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, (8)IRAP, Toulouse, France, (9)LPGN Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique de Nantes, Nantes Cedex 03, France, (10)CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France, (11)USGS Astrogeology Science Center, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (12)University of Nantes, Nantes, France, (13)Chevron Corporation Houston, Houston, TX, United States, (14)Brock University, St Catharines, ON, Canada, (15)University of Western Ontario, Earth Science, London, ON, Canada, (16)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (17)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (18)US Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, United States, (19)Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (20)Delaware State University, Dover, DE, United States, (21)Univ New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (22)Centro de Astrobiologia, Madrid, Spain
5:30 PM
 
Visible and near-infrared spectra of manganese oxides: Detecting high manganese phases in Curiosity Mastcam multispectral images
Craig J Hardgrove1, Nina Lanza2, James F Bell III1, Roger C Wiens3, Jeffrey Roy Johnson4 and Richard V Morris5, (1)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)Space Science and Applications, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (4)Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (5)NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States
5:45 PM
 
Manganese in Endeavour Crater Rim Materials, Mars, and Implications for Habitability
Raymond E Arvidson1, Jeffrey G Catalano1, Benton C Clark2, Woodward W Fischer3, John P Grotzinger3, Ralf Gellert4, Edward A Guinness1, Kenneth E Herkenhoff5, Jeffrey Roy Johnson6, Scott M McLennan7, Douglas W Ming8, Richard V Morris8, Steven W Squyres9 and Albert S Yen10, (1)Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States, (2)Space Science Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, (5)USGS Astrogeology Science Center, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (6)Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (7)Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States, (8)NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (9)Cornell Univ, Ithaca, NY, United States, (10)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
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