P31A:
Earth Analogues as Case Studies for Martian Geological Materials and Processes III Posters


Session ID#: 7446

Session Description:
Over the last decade several steps have been made towards the reconstruction of Martian mineralogy, geochemistry, geomorphology and geology. In situ exploration by rovers, combined with remote sensing and analogue studies, has enabled significant advancement in our understanding of Martian chemistry and mineralogy. Terrestrial case studies play an important role in observing geological processes that may have taken place on Mars. This session includes analysis of sites that are consistent with current and former Martian environments, as well as sites that may replicate specific chemical or physical geologic processes that are thought to have taken place on Mars.

The present session aims to become a roundtable for Earth and planetary scientists studying terrestrial analogues as case studies of Martian geology at all scales. We especially welcome contributions from multidisciplinary approaches, combined field and Mars data analysis studies, and investigations using novel techniques.

Primary Convener:  Christian Mavris, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Janice L Bishop, SETI Institute, Carl Sagan Center, Mountain View, United States and Pablo Sobron, SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA, United States
Chairs:  Janice L Bishop, SETI Institute, Carl Sagan Center, Mountain View, United States and Christian Mavris, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom
OSPA Liaison:  Christian Mavris, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • MR - Mineral and Rock Physics
  • V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Index Terms:

5215 Origin of life [PLANETARY SCIENCES: ASTROBIOLOGY]
5220 Hydrothermal systems and weathering on other planets [PLANETARY SCIENCES: ASTROBIOLOGY]
5415 Erosion and weathering [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
6225 Mars [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

High Habitability Potentials Generated by Subsurface Salt Mixtures at DLT Playa on Tibet Plateau (63612)
Alian Wang, Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States
Mineralogy of evaporite deposits on Mars: Constraints from laboratory, field, and remote measurements of analog terrestrial acid saline lakes (86695)
Jorge I Núñez1, Nathan Bridges2, Frank P Seelos2, Simon J Hook3, Alice M Baldridge4 and Bradley J Thomson5, (1)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)St. Mary's College of California, Environmental and Earth Science, Moraga, CA, United States, (5)Boston University, Center for Remote Sensing, Boston, United States
 Using Terrestrial Sulfate Efflorescences as an Analogue of Hydrated Sulfate Formation in Valles Marineris on Mars (81849)
Patrick Caleb Smith, University of Tennessee, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Knoxville, TN, United States and Anna Szynkiewicz, University of Tennessee, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Knoxville, TN, United States
Preservation Potential of Life in Little Hot Creek, California: Implications for the use of Hot Spring Systems as Astrobiological Targets (76926)
Kaitlin R. Rempfert, University of Colorado at Boulder, Geological Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, Danielle Priscilla Santiago Ramos, Rutgers University, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, New Brunswick, United States, Gabriela S. Nascimento, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, ERDW, Zurich, Switzerland, Feifei Zhang, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, Sean J Loyd, California State University Fullerton, Department of Geological Sciences, Fullerton, United States, Olivia Piazza Paradis, University of Southern California, Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Emma Bertran, Harvard University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, Blake W Stamps, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Microbiology and Plant Biology, Norman, OK, United States, Bradley S. Stevenson, Northwestern University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Evanston, United States, John R Spear, Colorado School of Mines, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Golden, CO, United States and Frank A Corsetti, University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Variation of Geochemical Signatures and Correlation of Biomarkers in Icelandic Mars Analogue Environments (77109)
Diana Gentry1, Elena Sophia Amador2, Morgan L Cable3, Thomas Cantrell4, Nosheen Chaudry5, Thomas Cullen5, Zachary A Duca4, Malene B Jacobsen6, Heather Catherine McCaig7, Gayathri Murukesan8, Vincent Rennie9, Edward Schwieterman2, Adam Stevens10, George Kenneth Tan4, Chang Yin11, Amanda M. Stockton12, David Cullen5 and Wolf Geppert11, (1)NASA Ames Research Center, Biospheric Science Branch, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (2)University of Washington, Astrobiology Program, Seattle, WA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (4)Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Atlanta, GA, United States, (5)Cranfield University, Cranfield, United Kingdom, (6)University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, (7)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (8)University of Turku, Department of Biochemistry, Finland, (9)University of Edinburgh, Department of Biological Sciences, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (10)University of Edinburgh, UK Centre for Astrobiology, School of Physics and Astronomy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (11)Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, (12)Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Atlanta, United States
Preservation of Lipid Biomarkers Under Prolonged and Extreme Hyperaridity in Atacama Desert Soils (83768)
Mary Beth Wilhelm1,2, Alfonso F Davila2,3, Jennifer L Eigenbrode4, Mary Nichole Parenteau2,5, Linda L Jahnke6, Roger E Summons7, Xiaolei Liu8, James J Wray9, Brian Stamos10, Shane Stephen O'Reilly11 and Amy J Williams4,12, (1)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States, (2)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States, (3)SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, CA, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, United States, (6)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (7)MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, United States, (8)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (9)Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States, (10)University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States, (11)Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, (12)University of Florida, Department of Geological Sciences, Gainesville, United States
Filed-Analog Study: Efficiency of microbial fossilization in sulfate-rich playas (82208)
Mihaela Glamoclija1, Mousa Zeidan2 and Steven Potochniak2, (1)Rutgers University Newark, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Newark, United States, (2)Rutgers University Newark, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Newark, NJ, United States
Craters of the Moon National Monument as a Terrestrial Mars Analog: Examination of Mars Analog Phosphate Minerals, Phosphate Mineral Shock-Recovery Experiments, and Phosphate Minerals in Martian Meteorites (82479)
Christopher T Adcock1, Elisabeth Hausrath1, Oliver D Tschauner2 and Arya Udry1, (1)University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, United States, (2)University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, United States
Interactions Between Snow-Adapted Organisms, Minerals and Snow in a Mars-Analog Environment, and Implications for the Possible Formation of Mineral Biosignatures (69798)
Elisabeth Hausrath1, Courtney L. Bartlett2, Angela H Garcia2, Oliver D Tschauner2, Alison E Murray3 and James A. Raymond4, (1)University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, United States, (2)University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, United States, (3)Desert Research Institute Reno, Division of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences, Reno, NV, United States, (4)University of Nevada Las Vegas, School of Life Sciences, Las Vegas, NV, United States
Lost Jim Lava Flow, Seward Peninsula, Alaska as an analog for lava–ice interactions on Mars (70659)
Emma Marcucci, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Christopher Hamilton, University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, AZ, United States and Robert Ritchie Herrick, Geophysical Institute, Juneau, AK, United States
BASALT: BIOLOGIC ANALOG SCIENCE ASSOCIATED WITH LAVA TERRAINS (67815)
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 Colaprete1, (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
Seeking Signs of Life in Nili Patera with Icelandic Sinter Field Exploration. (70983)
John R Skok, SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, CA, United States, Jack D Farmer, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, Mario Parente, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Amherst, MA, United States, Jessica Gaskin, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, Hanna Kaasalainen, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, Dominique Tobler, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark and Gregory Jerman, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
Outcrop-Scale Hyperspectral Studies of a Lacustrine-Volcanic Mars Analog: Examination with a Mars 2020-like Instrument Suite (86694)
Bethany L Ehlmann, California Institute of Technology, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States, Peter Martin, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Diana L Blaney, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Rohit Bhartia, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Abigail Allwood, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
MSL SAM-like Analyses of Hawaiian Altered Basaltic Materials: Implications for Analyses by the Mars Science Laboratory (84479)
Amy McAdam1, Jennifer L Eigenbrode2, Kelsey E Young2,3, Jacob E Bleacher4, Christine A Knudson2,5, Deanne Rogers6, Timothy D Glotch7, Brad Sutter8, Paul R Mahaffy1, Rafael Navarro-Gonzalez9 and Robert T Downs10, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Planetary Environments Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (4)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)CRESST/University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (6)Stony Brook University, Geosciences, Stony Brook, NY, United States, (7)Stony Brook University, Geosciences, Stony Brook, United States, (8)Jacobs Technology, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (9)Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Laboratorio de Química de plasmas y Estudios Planetarios, Mexico City, Mexico, (10)University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States
Vent 7504 of the San Francisco Volcanic Field (SFVF), Arizona: Sample Geochemistry and Implications for Cone Formation (73917)
Debra Hurwitz Needham1, Dean B. Eppler2, Jacob E Bleacher3, James A Skinner4, Cynthia A Evans2, Wanda Feng5, John E Gruener2, Peggy A Whitson2, Barbara A Janoiko2 and Stanley A Mertzman6, (1)Oak Ridge Associated Universities Inc., Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (3)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)US Geological Survey, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (5)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (6)Franklin and Marshall College, Department of Earth and Environment, Lancaster, PA, United States
GEOLOGIC INVESTIGATIONS SPURRED BY ANALOG TESTING AT THE 7504 CONE-SP MOUNTAIN AREA OF THE SAN FRANCISCO VOLCANIC FIELD (78936)
Dean B. Eppler1, Jacob E Bleacher2, Debra Hurwitz Needham3, Cynthia A Evans1, James A Skinner4 and Wanda Feng5, (1)NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (2)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Lunar & Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States, (4)US Geological Survey, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (5)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
Early Earth rock analogues for Martian subsurface processes (79942)
Eugene G Grosch1, Janice L Bishop2,3, Alessandro Maturilli4 and Jörn Helbert4, (1)University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (2)SETI Institute, Carl Sagan Center, Mountain View, United States, (3)German Aerospace Center DLR Berlin, Berlin, Germany, (4)German Aerospace Center DLR, Berlin, Germany
A Hydrothermally Altered, Mn-incrusted Marine Sediment as an Analogue for Martian Deposits? (69053)
Christoph Gross1, Janice L Bishop2, Alessandro Maturilli3, Mario D'Amore4 and Jörn Helbert4, (1)Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, (2)SETI Institute, Carl Sagan Center, Mountain View, United States, (3)German Aerospace Center DLR, Berlin, Germany, (4)German Aerospace Center DLR Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Combined VNIR and Raman spectroscopy of the Atacama salt flats as a potential Mars analog (67999)
Jessica Flahaut1, Janice L Bishop2, Melissa Martinot1, Nicola J Potts3 and Gareth Davies4, (1)VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (2)SETI Institute, Carl Sagan Center, Mountain View, United States, (3)Open University, CEPSAR, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, (4)VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Automatic Whole-Spectrum Matching Techniques for Identification of Pure and Mixed Minerals using Raman Spectroscopy (85170)
Melinda Darby Dyar, Mount Holyoke College, Department of Astronomy, South Hadley, United States, C J Carey, University of Massachusetts Amherst, School of Information and Computer Sciences, Amherst, MA, United States, Laura Breitenfeld, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, United States, Thomas Tague, Bruker Optics, Inc., Billerica, MA, United States and Peng Wang, University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States
Rapid and direct screening of H:C ratio in Archean kerogen via microRaman Spectroscopy (85295)
Nicola Ferralis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Materials Science and Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States, Emily D Matys, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, EAPS, Cambridge, MA, United States, Abigail Allwood, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, Andrew H Knoll, Harvard University, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Cambridge, MA, United States and Roger E Summons, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, United States
Improving Estimated Optical Constants With MSTM and DDSCAT Modeling (84127)
Karly M Pitman and Michael J Wolff, Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO, United States
Anomalous Features on Anomalous Rocks — Deciphering the Physical Weathering History of Iron Meteorites found on Mars using Terrestrial Analogues (84349)
James Ashley, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Earth's Colorado Plateau and Loess Plateau (Ordos Basin) Comparing with Mars' Thaumasia Plateau: Evidence of Ancient Martian Lithospheric Mobility (81101)
James matthew Dohm, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, Robert C Anderson, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Goro Komatsu, University of Chieti-Pescara, Pescara, Italy, Victor R Baker, University of Arizona, Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States and Shigenori Maruyama, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Tokyo, Japan
The fingerprint of Martian channelized flows: A reconstruction of Mars' early climate through new methods from physical geomorphology (73113)
Anna Grau Galofre, CNRS UMR 6112, Nantes Université, Le Mans Université et l’Université d’Angers, Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géosciences, Nantes, France and Mark Jellinek, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
RIS4E at Kilauea’s December 1974 (D1974) Flow: Establishing the D1974 Flow as an Ideal Mars Analog (74283)
Kelsey E Young1, Jacob E Bleacher2, Deanne Rogers3, Amy McAdam4, William Brent Garry4, Stephen P Scheidt5, Lynn M Carter4 and Timothy D Glotch6, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (6)Stony Brook University, Department of Geosciences, Stony Brook, NY, United States
RIS4E at Kilauea’s December 1974 Flow: Lava Flow Texture LiDAR Signatures (74165)
Patrick Whelley, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, William Brent Garry, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Stephen P Scheidt, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, Jacob E Bleacher, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Christopher Hamilton, University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, AZ, United States
RIS4E at Kilauea’s December 1974 Flow: Chemical, mineralogical and spectral characteristics of Hawaiian basaltic alteration products measured with portable instruments (79427)
Deanne Rogers1, Kelsey E Young2, Melinda Darby Dyar3, Gen Ito1, Marcella Yant1, Amy McAdam2, Jacob E Bleacher4 and Timothy D Glotch5, (1)Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Mount Holyoke College, Department of Astronomy, South Hadley, United States, (4)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)Stony Brook University, Department of Geosciences, Stony Brook, NY, United States
RIS4E at Kilauea’s December 1974 (D1974) Flow: In Situ Geochemical Analysis and Laboratory Spectral Characterization of Fumarolic Alteration. (82266)
Marcella Yant1, Deanne Rogers1, Kelsey E Young2, Gen Ito1, Jacob E Bleacher3, Amy McAdam4, Cynthia A Evans5, Jennifer L Eigenbrode4, Melinda Darby Dyar6, Timothy D Glotch7 and Stephen P Scheidt8, (1)Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (3)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (6)Mount Holyoke College, Department of Astronomy, South Hadley, United States, (7)Stony Brook University, Department of Geosciences, Stony Brook, NY, United States, (8)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
Geologic Features of Yardangs in Qaidam Basin and Analog Study with Mars (82250)
Jiang Wang1, Long Xiao2, Jiannan Zhao1 and Jun Huang3, (1)China University of Geosciences Wuhan, Wuhan, China, (2)China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China, (3)China University of Geosciences, wuhan, Wuhan, China
MarsSedEx III: linking Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and reduced gravity experiments (77304)
Nikolaus J Kuhn, Brigitte Kuhn and Andres Gartmann, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Icebergs on early Mars (79966)
Esther Uceda, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Alberto G. Fairén, Centro de Astrobiologia, Madrid, Spain, Christopher Woodworth-Lynas, Petra International Ltd, Cupids, NF, Canada and Dr. Alexis Palmero Rodriguez, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, United States

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