BASALT: BIOLOGIC ANALOG SCIENCE ASSOCIATED WITH LAVA TERRAINS

Darlene Sze Shien Lim1, Andrew Abercromby2, Shannon E Kobs-Nawotniak3, Linda Kobayashi1, Scott S Hughes4, Steve Chappell2, Nathan E Bramall5, Matthew C Deans1, Jennifer L Heldmann1, Michael Downs6, Charles S Cockell7, Adam Stevens8, Barrett Caldwell9, Jeffrey Hoffman10, Nikhil Vadhavk10, Jessica Marquez1, Michael Miller6, Steven W Squyres11, David S Lees1, Terry Fong1, Tamar Cohen1, Trey Smith1, Grace Lee1, Jeremy Frank12 and Anthony Colaprete13, (1)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (2)NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (3)Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID, United States, (4)Idaho State University, Idaho Falls, ID, United States, (5)Los Gatos Research, Mountain View, CA, United States, (6)NASA Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, FL, United States, (7)University of Edinburgh, UK Centre for Astrobiology, School of Physics and Astronomy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (8)The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, (9)Purdue University, West Lafayette, United States, (10)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (11)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, (12)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffet Field, CA, United States, (13)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States