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

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 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:

 
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
Cyril Szopa1, Patrice J Coll2, Michel Cabane1, Arnaud Buch3, David Coscia1, Maeva Millan1, Pascaline Francois2, Imene Belmahadi3, Samuel Teinturier4, Rafael Navarro-Gonzalez5, Daniel Patrick Glavin4, Caroline Freissinet6, Andrew Steele7, Jennifer L Eigenbrode4 and Paul R Mahaffy8, (1)LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris Cedex 05, France, (2)LISA, Creteil Cedex, France, (3)LGPM Laboratoire Génie des Procédés et les Matériaux, Châtenay-Malabry Cedex, France, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Postdoctoral Program, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC, United States, (8)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Determination of the Possible Source of Chlorinated Hydrocarbons Detected By SAM during MSL Mission
Arnaud Buch1, Imene Belmahdi2, Cyril Szopa3, Caroline Freissinet4, Daniel Patrick Glavin5, Pascaline Francois6, Patrice J Coll6, Kristen Miller7, Jennifer L Eigenbrode5, Jennifer C Stern5, Rafael Navarro-Gonzalez8, Amy McAdam9, Samuel Teinturier5, jean-Yves Bonnet3, Roger E Summons10, Maeva Millan3, Tristan Dequaire6, Michel Cabane3 and Paul R Mahaffy11, (1)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (2)ecole centrale Paris, LGPM, Chatenay Malabry, France, (3)LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris Cedex 05, France, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Postdoctoral Program, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)LISA, Creteil Cedex, France, (7)MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, United States, (8)Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Planetary Environments Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (10)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (11)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Comparing MSL ChemCam Analyses to Shergottite and Terrestrial Rock Types
Peter Edwards1, John Bridges1, Melinda Darby Dyar2, Martin R Fisk3, Susanne P Schwenzer4, Olivier Forni5 and Roger C Wiens6, (1)University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1, United Kingdom, (2)Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, United States, (3)Oregon State Univ, Corvallis, OR, United States, (4)Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7, United Kingdom, (5)IRAP, Toulouse, France, (6)Space Science and Applications, Los Alamos, NM, 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
Insoo Jun1, Igor G. Mitrofanov2, Maxim L Litvak2, Anton B. Sanin2, Javier Martín-Torres3, Maria-Paz Zorzano4, William V Boynton5, Fedor Fedosov2, Dmitry Golovin2, Craig J Hardgrove6, Karl Harshman5, Alexander Kozyrev2, Ruslan Kuzmin2, Alexey Malakhov2, Michael A Mischna1, Jeffrey Moersch7, Maxim Mokrousov2, Sergey Nikiforov2 and Christopher Tate7, (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)Univ Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (6)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (7)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
Samantha Jacob, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, Scott Kaniela Rowland, Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States, Kenneth S Edgett, Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, CA, United States, Linda C Kah, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States, Roger C Wiens, Space Science and Applications, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Mackenzie D Day, University of Texas, Austin, TX, United States, Fred Calef, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Marisa C Palucis, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States and Ryan B Anderson, USGS Astrogeology Science Center, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
 
Banding in Mount Sharp, Gale Crater: Stratigraphy, Strandlines, or Buttress Unconformities?
Timothy J Parker1, William E Dietrich2, Marisa C Palucis2, Fred J Calef III1 and Horton E Newsom3, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Univ New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States
 
Compositional and Physical Properties of Materials Along Curiosity’s Traverse Inferred from CRISM Hyperspectral Data
Abigail A Fraeman1, Raymond E Arvidson2, Bethany L Ehlmann1, John P Grotzinger1, Victoria E Hamilton3, Javier Martín-Torres4 and Maria-Paz Zorzano4, (1)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States, (3)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)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
Danika F Wellington1, James F Bell III1, Austin Godber1, Kjartan Münster Kinch2, Abigail A Fraeman3, Bethany L Ehlmann3, Raymond E Arvidson4, Melissa S Rice5 and Jeffrey Roy Johnson6, (1)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (2)Niels Bohr Inst p Rockefeller, Copenhagen K, Denmark, (3)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States, (5)Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, United States, (6)Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
 
Evaluation of Sedimentary and Terrain Parameters from MARDI Camera Imaging and Stereogrammetry at Gale Crater
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, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Multivariate Statistical Analysis of MSL APXS Bulk Geochemical Data
Victoria E Hamilton, Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Christopher S Edwards, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Lucy Thompson, University of New Brunswick, Earth Sciences, 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.
Robert C Anderson1, Luther W Beegle2 and William J Abbey1, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Mars Rover Curiosity Traverses of Sand Ripples
Nathaniel Stein1, Raymond E Arvidson1, Feng Zhou1, Matthew Heverly2, Mark Maimone2, Frank Hartman2, Paolo Bellutta2, Karl Iagnemma3 and Carmine Senatore3, (1)Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
 
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