P43B
Mars Science Laboratory at the Base of Aeolis Mons: New Insights into Early Mars from the Geology, Geochemistry, and Atmosphere I Posters

Thursday, 17 December 2015: 13:40-18:00
Poster Hall (Moscone South)
Primary Conveners:  Ashwin R Vasavada, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Michael A Meyer, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
Chairs:  Ashwin R Vasavada, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Michael A Meyer, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Ashwin R Vasavada, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
REMS Wind Sensor Preliminary Results (68232)
Javier Gomez-Elvira1, Sara Navarro2, Mercedes Marin2, Josefina Torres2, Scot CR Rafkin3, Manuel De La Torre Juarez4, Claire E Newman5, Jorge Pla-García2 and REMS team, (1)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Centro de Astrobiologia (CSIC-INTA), Instrumentation, Madrid, Spain, (3)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Ashima Research, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Mars Methane Detection and Variability at Gale Crater Measured by the TLS instrument in SAM on the Curiosity Rover (65556)
Christopher R Webster1, Paul R Mahaffy2, Sushil K Atreya3, Gregory Flesch1 and SAM Science Team of Curiosity Rover, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
 
Oxygen isotope fractionation during spin-forbidden photolysis of CO2: Relevance to the atmosphere of Mars (84309)
James R Lyons, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
 
Potential Persistence of Ground Ice at Gale Crater, Mars Constrained Using Curiosity Rover REMS Data (82025)
Lu Liu1, Ronald S Sletten2, Bernard Hallet2, Michael A Mischna3 and Ashwin R Vasavada4, (1)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)Univ Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Observation of Very High Passive Mode Thermal Neutron Counts by the MSL DAN Instrument at Marias Pass in Gale Crater (75559)
Insoo Jun1, Igor G. Mitrofanov2, Maxim L Litvak2, Anton B. Sanin2, Luz Maria Martinez Sierra1, Jens Frydenvang3, Fedor Fedosov2, Dmitry Golovin2, Craig J Hardgrove4, Karl Harshman5, Alexander Kozyrev2, Alexey V Malakhov2, Michael A Mischna1, Jeffrey Moersch6, Maxim Mokrousov2, Sergey Nikiforov2, Christopher G Tate6 and The MSL Science Team, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Space Research Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (4)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (5)Univ Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (6)University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States
 
What gravel size may tell us about the rivers draining from the north wall of Gale Crater (86633)
William E Dietrich, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Revisiting the Sheepbed Mudstone of Gale Crater, Mars – A comprehensive reappraisal of its depositional, diagenetic, and burial history (72774)
Juergen Schieber1, David L Bish2, Max L Coleman3, Mark H Reed4, Kenneth S Edgett5 and Michael Charles Malin5, (1)Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States, (2)Indiana University - Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Univ Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States, (5)Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, CA, United States
 
Sedimentary Facies as Indicators of Changing Lake Levels in Gale Crater, Mars (80866)
David M Rubin, University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, John P Grotzinger, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Sanjeev Gupta, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Dawn Y Sumner, University of California, Davis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States, Rebecca M. E. Williams, Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States, William E Dietrich, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Lauren A Edgar, USGS Astrogeology Science Center, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, Kevin W Lewis, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, Dorothy Z Oehler, Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, Melissa S Rice, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, United States, Juergen Schieber, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States, Kathryn Stack, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and MSL Science Team
 
Investigation of a Major Stratigraphic Unconformity with the Curiosity Rover (84313)
Kevin W Lewis, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States and the MSL Science Team
 
Hollow Nodules Gas Escape Sedimentary Structures in Lacustrine Deposits on Earth and Gale Crater (85117)
Rosalba Bonaccorsi, SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, CA, United States
 
ChemCam First Discovery of High Silica Sediments in Gale Crater (65764)
Jens Frydenvang1, Patrick James Gasda1, Roger C Wiens2, Horton E Newsom3, John Bridges4, Olivier Gasnault5, Sylvestre Maurice6, Olivier Forni6, Nicolas Mangold7, Agnes Cousin6, Valérie Payré8, Ryan B Anderson9, Igor G. Mitrofanov10, Insoo Jun11, Melissa S Rice12, Ralph Milliken13, Peter Edwards4, David T Vaniman14, Richard V Morris15, David Frederick Blake16, Ralf Gellert17, Lucy M Thompson18, Benton C Clark19, Joel Hurowitz20, Dawn Y Sumner21, Bethany L Ehlmann22, Abigail Fraeman22, Kjartan Münster Kinch23, Morten B Madsen24, Fred Calef25, John P Grotzinger22, Ashwin R Vasavada25 and The MSL Science Team, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Space Science and Applications, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)University of New Mexico Main Campus, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (4)University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom, (5)Universite de Toulouse, Toulouse Cedex 4, France, (6)IRAP, Toulouse, France, (7)LPGN Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique de Nantes, Nantes Cedex 03, France, (8)University of Lorraine Nancy, Nancy Cedex, France, (9)USGS Astrogeology Science Center, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (10)Space Research Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia, (11)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (12)Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, United States, (13)Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, (14)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States, (15)NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (16)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (17)University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, (18)University of New Brunswick, Planetary and Space Science Centre, Fredericton, NB, Canada, (19)Space Science Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (20)Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States, (21)University of California, Davis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States, (22)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (23)Niels Bohr Inst p Rockefeller, Copenhagen K, Denmark, (24)Niels Bohr Institute - University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, (25)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Chemical Composition of lower Mount Sharp at Gale Crater, Mars, as measured by the APXS (83660)
Ralf Gellert1, Nick Boyd1, John L Campbell1, Scott VanBommel1, Glynis M Perrett1, Elstan Desouza1, Lucy M Thompson2, Albert S Yen3, Jeff A. Berger4 and MSL Science Team, (1)University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, (2)University of New Brunswick, Planetary and Space Science Centre, Fredericton, NB, Canada, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
 
Chemical Composition of Diagenetic Features at Lower Aeolis Mons, Mars as Measured by Curiosity’s APXS (70391)
Jeff A. Berger1, Mariek E Schmidt2, Ralf Gellert3, Nick Boyd3, John L Campbell3, Elstan Desouza3, Martin R Fisk4, Glynis M Perrett3, Lucy M Thompson5, Scott VanBommel6 and Albert S Yen7, (1)University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, (2)Brock University, St Catharines, ON, Canada, (3)University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, (4)Oregon State Univ, Corvallis, OR, United States, (5)University of New Brunswick, Planetary and Space Science Centre, Fredericton, NB, Canada, (6)University of Guelph, Norwich, ON, Canada, (7)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Garden City Vein Complex, Gale Crater, Mars: Implications for Late Diagenetic Fluid Flow (73835)
Rachel Emily Kronyak1, Linda C Kah1, Diana L Blaney2, Dawn Y Sumner3, Martin R Fisk4, William Rapin5, Marion Nachon6, Nicolas Mangold7, John P Grotzinger8 and Roger C Wiens9, (1)University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)University of California, Davis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States, (4)Oregon State Univ, Corvallis, OR, United States, (5)Universite de Toulouse, Toulouse Cedex 4, France, (6)University of Nantes, Nantes, France, (7)LPGN Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique de Nantes, Nantes Cedex 03, France, (8)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (9)Space Science and Applications, Los Alamos, NM, United States
 
Overview of the diagenetic features analyzed by ChemCam onboard Curiosity (75937)
Nicolas Mangold1, Olivier Forni2, Marion Nachon3, Diana L Blaney4, Roger C Wiens5, Linda C Kah6, Rachel Emily Kronyak6, Samuel M Clegg7, Agnes Cousin2, Martin R Fisk8, Olivier Gasnault9, John P Grotzinger10, Nina Lanza7, Jeremie Lasue2, Laetitia Le Deit1, Stephane Le Mouelic11, Sylvestre Maurice2, Pierre-Yves Meslin12, William Rapin9, Horton E Newsom13, Dawn Y Sumner14 and The MSL Team, (1)LPGN Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique de Nantes, Nantes Cedex 03, France, (2)IRAP, Toulouse, France, (3)University of Nantes, Nantes, France, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Space Science and Applications, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (6)University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States, (7)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (8)Oregon State Univ, Corvallis, OR, United States, (9)Universite de Toulouse, Toulouse Cedex 4, France, (10)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (11)CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France, (12)Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, (13)University of New Mexico Main Campus, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (14)University of California, Davis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States
 
Major-Element Compositional Diversity Observed by ChemCam Along the MSL Traverse: The First Three Years (71407)
Roger C Wiens1, Nicolas Mangold2, Sylvestre Maurice3, Diana L Blaney4, Samuel M Clegg5, Patrick James Gasda5, Jens Frydenvang5, Olivier Gasnault6, Olivier Forni3, Agnes Cousin3, Jeremie Lasue3, Nina Lanza5, Ryan B Anderson7, Violaine Sautter8, John Bridges9, Laetitia Le Deit2, Marion Nachon10, William Rapin6, Pierre-Yves Meslin11, Horton E Newsom12, Benton C Clark13, David T Vaniman14, Nathan Bridges15, Kenneth E Herkenhoff7, Bethany L Ehlmann16, Melinda Darby Dyar17, Martin R Fisk18, Raymond Francis19, Richard J Leveille20, Jeffrey Roy Johnson21, Nouredine Melikechi22, Ryan Jackson23, Cecile Fabre24, Valérie Payré24, John P Grotzinger16, Ashwin R Vasavada4, Joy A Crisp4 and the ChemCam Team, (1)Space Science and Applications, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)LPGN Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique de Nantes, Nantes Cedex 03, France, (3)IRAP, Toulouse, France, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (6)Universite de Toulouse, Toulouse Cedex 4, France, (7)USGS Astrogeology Science Center, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (8)CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France, (9)University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom, (10)University of Nantes, Nantes, France, (11)Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, (12)University of New Mexico Main Campus, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (13)Space Science Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (14)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States, (15)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, (16)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (17)Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, United States, (18)Oregon State Univ, Corvallis, OR, United States, (19)University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, (20)McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, (21)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (22)Delaware State University, Dover, DE, United States, (23)Univ New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (24)University of Lorraine Nancy, Nancy Cedex, France
 
Recent Mastcam and MAHLI Visible/Near-Infrared Spectrophotometric Observations: Pahrump Hills to Marias Pass (61017)
Jeffrey Roy Johnson, Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, James F Bell III, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States, Alexander Hayes, Cornell University, Department of Astronomy, Ithaca, NY, United States, Robert G Deen, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Austin Godber, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, Raymond E Arvidson, Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States and Mark T Lemmon, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, United States
 
Insights Into the Mineralogic Diversity of Lower Mount Sharp Units from Mars Science Laboratory Mastcam Multispectral Observations (65566)
Danika F Wellington1, James F Bell III2, Jeffrey Roy Johnson3, Kjartan Münster Kinch4, Melissa S Rice5, Craig J Hardgrove1, Austin Godber1 and The MSL Science Team, (1)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (2)Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States, (3)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (4)Niels Bohr Inst p Rockefeller, Copenhagen K, Denmark, (5)Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, United States
 
Indigenous Fixed Nitrogen on Mars: Implications for Habitability (78741)
Jennifer C Stern1, Brad Sutter2, Rafael Navarro-Gonzalez3, Chris McKay4, Caroline Freissinet5, Doug Archer Jr.2, Jennifer L. Eigenbrode1, Paul R Mahaffy1 and Pamela Gales Conrad1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Jacobs Technology, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (3)Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, (4)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Postdoctoral Program, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
First use of SAM onboard calibration gas cell (74288)
Charles Malespin1,2, Melissa G Trainer3, Heidi L Manning4, Heather B. Franz5, Pamela Gales Conrad1, Eric Raaen1, Christopher R Webster6, Gregory Flesch6, Jennifer L Eigenbrode1, Michael H Wong7 and Paul R Mahaffy1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard SFC, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (4)Concordia College, Moorhead, MN, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Center for Research and Exploration in Space Science and Technology, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
PERCHLORATE FORMATION BY RADIOLYSIS ON MARS (80815)
Eric H Wilson1, Sushil K Atreya1, Ralf I Kaiser2 and Paul R Mahaffy3, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Stable Isotope Systematics of Martian Perchlorate (85910)
Peter Martin1, Kenneth A Farley2, Doug Archer Jr.3, Sushil K Atreya4, Pamela Gales Conrad5, Jennifer L Eigenbrode5, Alberto Fairen6, Heather B. Franz7, Caroline Freissinet8, Daniel Patrick Glavin5, Paul R Mahaffy5, Charles Malespin5, Douglas W Ming9, Rafael Navarro-Gonzalez10 and Brad Sutter3, (1)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Jacobs Technology, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (4)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Center for Research and Exploration in Space Science and Technology, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Postdoctoral Program, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (9)NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (10)Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
 
A Sparse Hierarchical Map Representation for Mars Science Laboratory Science Operations (84033)
Ara V Nefian, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States and Antares MSL Team
 
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