P22A
Processes in the Present-Day Atmosphere of Mars II

Tuesday, 15 December 2015: 10:20-12:20
2007 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Armin Kleinboehl, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Nicholas G Heavens, Hampton University, Hampton, VA, United States, Paul Ottinger Hayne, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Michael Warren Liemohn, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Chairs:  Armin Kleinboehl, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Nicholas G Heavens, Hampton University, Hampton, VA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Nicholas G Heavens, Hampton University, Hampton, VA, United States
10:20
Dust and the Mars Polar Vortices (73579)
Scott Guzewich, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Darryn Waugh, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States and Anthony D Toigo, Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States
10:35
Time-variability of Polar Winter Snow Clouds on Mars (67596)
Paul Ottinger Hayne1, David M Kass1, Armin Kleinboehl1, John T. Schofield2, Daniel J McCleese1 and Mars Climate Sounder Science Team, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
10:50
A widespread low-latitude diurnal CO2 frost cycle on Mars revealed by Mars Climate Sounder observations (68736)
Sylvain Piqueux1, Armin Kleinboehl1, Paul Ottinger Hayne2, David M Kass2, Daniel J McCleese2, James H Shirley2, John T. Schofield1 and Nicholas G Heavens3, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Hampton University, Hampton, VA, United States
11:05
Experimental confirmation of liquid brines on Mars (67636)
Nilton O Renno, German Martinez and Erik Fischer, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
11:20
Mesoscale Modeling of Water Vapor and Dust in Valles Marineris: Atmospheric Influences on Recurring Slope Lineae. (86121)
Cecilia W. S. Leung, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
11:35
Salts as Water Ice Cloud Nuclei on Mars (66578)
Delia Santiago-Materese1, Patrick Y Chuang2 and Laura T Iraci1, (1)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (2)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
11:50
The Impact of Planetary-Scale Thermal Forcing and Small-Scale Topography on the Diurnal Cycle of Martian Surface Pressure (67835)
R John Wilson, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab, Princeton, NJ, United States and James Richard Murphy, New Mexico State University Main Campus, Astronomy, Las Cruces, NM, United States
12:05
ChemCam Passive Sky Spectroscopy at Gale Crater: Diurnal and Seasonal cycles of O2, H2O, and aerosols (64640)
Timothy H McConnochie, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Astronomy, College Park, MD, United States
 
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