P21C:
The Early Mars Environment: Warm and Wet, Cold and Wet, or Cold and Icy? I Posters

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Session ID#: 13359

Session Description:
Geological, geochemical and mineralogical evidence indicative of flowing and ponding liquid water on the surface of ancient Mars appears abundantly across most of the Martian landscape. However, the presence of liquid water on the surface of early Mars is difficult to reconcile with the reduced solar luminosity at 3.8 Ga. and before, unless greenhouse warming is considered. But the scarcity of carbonate rocks on the martian surface and the absence of evidence for vigorous recycling of volatiles cause many researchers to regard warming mechanisms as speculative. This leaves still open the question of how the observed fluvial features could have formed. We invite contributions from climate modeling, geomorphology, geochemistry and mineralogy that address the question of whether early Mars climate was “warm and wet”, “cold and wet” or “cold and icy”. This session will focus on both sharing new results from different perspectives and fostering communication among the community.
Primary Convener:  Alberto G. Fairén, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States; Centro de Astrobiologia, Madrid, Spain
Conveners:  Stephen M Clifford, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States and James F Kasting, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States
Chairs:  Stephen M Clifford, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States, Alberto G. Fairén, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States; Centro de Astrobiologia, Madrid, Spain and James F Kasting, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Alberto G. Fairén, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States; Centro de Astrobiologia, Madrid, Spain

Cross-Listed:
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
Index Terms:

5405 Atmospheres [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
5419 Hydrology and fluvial processes [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
6225 Mars [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Climate Cycling on Early Mars Caused by the Carbonate-Silicate Cycle (184486)
James F Kasting, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States, Natasha E Batalha, Pennsylvania State Univ, University Park, PA, United States, Jacob D Haqq-Misra, Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, Seattle, WA, United States and Ravi Kopparapu, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Solar System Exploration Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Mixtures of Silica and Disulfide Rocks Can Explain the Coeval Formation of Mineral Sequences on a Cold and Wet Early Mars (176284)
Alberto G. Fairén1,2, Eva Mateo3, Luis Gago-Duport4, Elisabeth Losa-Adams4, Vincent F Chevrier5 and Carolina Gil-Lozano6, (1)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, (2)Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA); and Dept. of Astronomy, Cornell University, Madrid, Spain, (3)Centro de Astrobiología (CAB), INTA-CSIC, Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid, Spain, (4)Universidad de Vigo, Vigo, Spain, (5)University of Arkansas, Arkansas Center for Space and Planetary Sciences, Fayetteville, United States, (6)Centro de Astrobiologia (CSIC-INTA), Madrid, Spain
Evidence for an Ancient Periglacial Climate in Gale Crater, Mars (148186)
Dorothy Z. Oehler1, Alberto G. Fairén2, Nicolas Mangold3, Bernard Hallet4, Laetitia Le Deit3, Amy Williams5, Ronald S Sletten6 and Jesús Martínez-Frías7, (1)Jacobs Technology, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (2)Centro de Astrobiología, Madrid, Spain, (3)LPGN Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique de Nantes, Nantes Cedex 03, France, (4)University of Washington, Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States, (5)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (6)University of Washington, Quaternary Research Center, Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States, (7)Instituto de Geociencias, Facultad de Ciencias Geologicas, Madrid, Spain
Were lakes on early Mars perennially were ice-covered? (153890)
Dr. Frances Rivera-Hernandez, PhD1, Dawn Y Sumner2 and Tyler J Mackey1, (1)University of California, Davis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States, (2)University of California, Davis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, United States
Constraining Hesperian martian PCO2 from mineral analysis at Gale crater (191392)
Thomas Bristow1, Robert Michael Haberle1, David Frederick Blake2, David T Vaniman3, John P Grotzinger4, Kirsten Siebach5, David J Des Marais2, Elizabeth B Rampe6, Jennifer L Eigenbrode7, Brad Sutter8, Alberto G. Fairén9, Michael Mischna10 and Ashwin R Vasavada10, (1)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States, (2)NASA Ames Research Center, Exobiology Branch, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (3)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States, (4)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (6)NASA Johnson Space Center, Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Division, Houston, TX, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)Jacobs Technology, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (9)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, (10)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Sustainability of Liquid Water On the Surface of Mars Under Present-day Conditions: Water Supply Mechanism Effects (167793)
Jules M. Goldspiel, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, United States
Giant Icebergs and Biological Productivity on Early Mars (178250)
Esther Uceda, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Alberto G. Fairen, Centro de Astrobiología, Madrid, Spain and Christopher Woodworth-Lynas, Petra International Ltd, Cupids, NF, Canada
An Assessment of Recent Solutions to Warm Early Mars (165792)
Ramses M Ramirez, Cornell University, Astronomy, Ithaca, NY, United States
The Effects of Punctuated Warm and Wet Environments on Phyllosilicate Formation - or How Long was Early Mars Wet? (142566)
Janice L Bishop, SETI Institute, Carl Sagan Center, Mountain View, United States, Leslie Baker, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States, Elizabeth B Rampe, NASA Johnson Space Center, Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Division, Houston, TX, United States and Michael Anthony Velbel, Michigan State University, Earth & Environmental Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States
Are Clay Minerals a Climate Constraint? A Review of Prior Data and New Insights on Martian “Weathering Sequences” (185981)
Bethany L Ehlmann, California Institute of Technology, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States and Murat Dundar, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Computer and Information Science, Indianapolis, IN, United States
Investigation of Noachian crustal alteration using CRISM multispectral mapping data (159830)
Angela Dapremont1, Christina E Viviano2, Andrew Beck3, Kimberly D Seelos2, Scott L Murchie4 and Frank P Seelos3, (1)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States, (2)Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (3)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (4)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States
Early Martian Clay Formation Beneath a Massive Outgassed Atmosphere (160969)
Kevin Cannon, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, Stephen Wayne Parman, Brown University, DEEPS - Dept of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, United States and John F Mustard, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, United States
Aqueous alteration revealed by diverse mineralogy at Amazonian-aged Lyot crater, Mars (189200)
Lu Pan, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Bethany L Ehlmann, California Institute of Technology, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States
VNIR and MIR Spectral Features and Detection Limits of Minor Phases in Chloride-bearing Mineral Mixtures (161203)
Cheng Ye, Stony Brook University, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Stony Brook, United States and Timothy D Glotch, Stony Brook University, Department of Geosciences, Stony Brook, United States
Were Chloride-Bearing Lakes on Mars Fed by Deep-Sourced Groundwater? (191516)
Mohit Melwani Daswani, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States and Edwin S Kite, University of Chicago, Department of the Geophysical Sciences, Chicago, IL, United States
Constraints on Martian Fluvial Activity from Embedded-Crater Density in Alluvial Fans (184047)
Jonathan Sneed1, Edwin Kite1 and David P Mayer2, (1)University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, (2)USGS Astrogeology Science Center, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
Runoff production from intercrater plains on Mars (198335)
Rossman P Irwin III1, Yo Matsubara2 and Jon C Cawley1, (1)Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC, United States
Early Mars Climate Revisited With a Global Probability Map of Martian Valley Network Origin and Distribution (186690)
Anna Grau Galofre, CNRS UMR 6112, Nantes Université, Le Mans Université et l’Université d’Angers, Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géosciences, Nantes, France, Mark Jellinek, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada and Gordon R Osinski, University of Western Ontario, Physics and Astronomy, London, ON, Canada
Geology and Mineralogy of Ancient Sea Deposits in Eridania Basin, Mars: Implications for Noachian Climate (170054)
Joseph R Michalski, University of Hong Kong, Department of Earth Sciences, Hong Kong, China, Eldar Z Noe Dobrea, Planetary Science Institute Pasadena, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Javier Cuadros, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom and Paul B Niles, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States
Distal Aqueous-Rich Ejecta Deposits from Hale Crater, Mars (139055)
John A Grant III and Sharon A. Wilson, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, Washington, DC, United States
The drying of Mars – an analog from Kachchh, western India (171615)
Saibal Gupta1, Souvik Mitra2, Kaushik Mitra2, Satadru Bhattacharya3, Santanu Banerjee4, Prakash Chauhan5, Nirmala Jain3 and Gopalakrishnarao Parthasarathy6, (1)Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Kharagpur, India, (2)Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India, (3)Space Applications center, Ahemadabad, India, (4)Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Department of Earth Sciences, Mumbai, India, (5)Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, ISRO, Dehradun, India, (6)National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, India
Atmospheric Loss and Warming Of The Early Mars (192216)
Vladimir Airapetian, SEEC/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center & American University, DC, SEEC, Greenbelt, United States, Guillaume Gronoff, Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States, Alex Grocer, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Geospace Physics Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, George V Khazanov, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States and Eric Hébrard, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 699, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Investigating post-impact climate scenarios for early Mars with a 3D GCM (194150)
Kathryn Steakley1, James Richard Murphy2, Melinda A Kahre3 and Robert Michael Haberle3, (1)New Mexico State University Main Campus, Astronomy, Las Cruces, United States, (2)New Mexico State University Main Campus, Astronomy, Las Cruces, NM, United States, (3)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States
Three Dimensional Volcanic Plume Simulations on Early Mars (185393)
Meghan A Fisher, Idaho State University, Idaho Falls, ID, United States and Shannon E Kobs-Nawotniak, Idaho State University, Department of Geosciences, Idaho Falls, ID, United States
Early Mars serpentinization-derived CH4 reservoirs, H2 induced warming and paleopressure evolution (154982)
Jeremie Lasue, IRAP-CNRS, Univ. of Toulouse, Toulouse, France, Eric Chassefiere, University of Paris-Sud 11, Orsay, France, Benoit Langlais, Laboratoire de Planetologie et Geosciences / CNRS, Nantes, France and Yoann Quesnel, CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence Cedex, France
Radiolytic H2 production in different Martian environments (157990)
Mary E Dzaugis, Arthur J Spivack and Steven D'Hondt, University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, RI, United States
Modelling the Properties of Rock Coatings Observed by the Mars Exploration Rovers’ Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer and Hypthesized Environments of Formation (185407)
Glynis Perrett1, Benton C Clark2, Steven W Squyres1 and J.L. Campbell3, (1)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, (2)Space Science Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Guelph, Physics, Guelph, ON, Canada
Automated Grouping of Opportunity Rover Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer Compositional Data (164606)
Scott VanBommel1, Ralf Gellert2, Benton C Clark3, Douglas W Ming4, David W Mittlefehldt4, Christian Schröder5 and Albert Yen6, (1)University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada, (2)University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, (3)Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (5)University of Stirling, Biological and Environmental Sciences, Stirling, United Kingdom, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Recent Opportunity Microscopic Imager Results from the Western Rim of Endeavour Crater (177559)
Kenneth E Herkenhoff, USGS Astrogeology Science Center, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, Ray E Arvidson, Washington University in St Louis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, St. Louis, MO, United States, Brad L Jolliff, Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences and the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, St. Louis, United States, David W Mittlefehldt, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, Robert J Sullivan Jr, Cornell University, CCAPS, Ithaca, NY, United States, Ralf Gellert, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada and Michael H Sims, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
Mars rover rock abrasion tool performance enhanced by ultrasonic technology. (121917)
Adrienne Macartney1, Xuan Li2, Patrick Harkness2 and Ultrasonic Planetary Drilling and Coring team (UPCD Space Glasgow), (1)University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12, United Kingdom, (2)University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
THE MAPPING X-RAY FLUORESCENCE SPECTROMETER (MAPX) (142372)
David Frederick Blake1, Philippe Sarrazin2, Thomas Bristow3, Robert T Downs4, Marc Gailhanou5, Franck Marchis6, Douglas W Ming7, Richard V Morris7, Vicente Armando Sole8, Kathleen Thompson2, Philippe Walter9, Michael Wilson2, Albert S Yen10 and Samuel Webb11, (1)NASA Ames Research Center, Exobiology Branch, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (2)SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, CA, United States, (3)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States, (4)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (5)Institut Matériaux Microelectronique Nanosciences des Provence (IM2NP), Faculte des Sciences, Marseille, France, (6)SETI Institute, Mountain View, United States, (7)NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (8)ESRF European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Instrumentation Services and Development Division, Grenoble, France, (9)CNRS, Universite Paris 6 Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris Cedex 16, France, (10)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (11)Stanford University, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, Stanford, United States
MOMA and other next-generation ion trap mass spectrometers for planetary exploration (183255)
Ricardo Arevalo Jr1, William B Brinckerhoff2, Stephanie Getty2, Paul R Mahaffy1, Friso H W van Amerom3, Ryan Danell4, Veronica T. Pinnick2, Xiang Li5, Andrej Grubisic2, Adrian E Southard6, Lars Hovmand7, Hervé Cottin8 and Alexander Makarov9, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (4)Danell Consulting, Winterville, NC, United States, (5)UMBC Center for Research and Exploration in Space Science and Technology (CRESST), Baltimore, United States, (6)UMCP/CRESST II, College Park, MD, United States, (7)Linear Labs LLC, Washington, DC, United States, (8)LISA Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques, Créteil, France, (9)Thermo Fisher Scientific, Bremen, Germany
End-To-END Performance of the future MOMA intrument aboard the EXOMARS MISSION (162723)
Arnaud Buch1, Veronica T. Pinnick2, Cyril Szopa3, Noel Grand4, Ryan Danell5, Friso H W van Amerom1, Caroline Freissinet6, Daniel Patrick Glavin7, Fabien Stalport8, Ricardo Arevalo Jr9, Patrice J Coll10, Harald Steininger11, Francois Raulin12, Fred Goesmann13, Paul R Mahaffy9 and William B Brinckerhoff2, (1)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Université Versailles St-Quentin, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ. Paris 06, CNRS, LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris, France, (4)LISA Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques, Créteil Cedex, France, (5)Danell Consulting, Winterville, NC, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Postdoctoral Program, Greenbelt, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Solar System Exploration Division, Greenbelt, United States, (8)Université de Paris, Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques, Créteil Cedex, France, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (10)LISA, Creteil Cedex, France, (11)Max Planck Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany, (12)LISA Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques, CRETEIL, France, (13)Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS), Gottingen, Germany
Microscopic Mapping of Minerals and Organics: A Modular Pulsed Raman Spectrometer Adaptable to Both Small and Large Landed Planetary Missions (150851)
Jordana Blacksberg1, Erik Alerstam1, Yuki Maruyama1, Corey Cochrane2 and George R Rossman3, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (3)California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States
Stepped Acid Extractions of CO2 from Ancient Carbonates in Martian Nakhlites (MIL 03346, 090030, 090032, 090036) Show Distinct δ18O and δ13C Isotopic Values Compared to Secondary Terrestrial Carbonates Formed on Ordinary Chondrites (OC) Collected from Antarctica (151142)
Michael E Evans, NASA Johnson Space Center, Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science, Houston, TX, United States and Paul B Niles, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States
From Mars Meteorites to Laboratory Investigations: Understanding Heterogeneous Photochemical Transformations Using Oxygen Triple Isotope Anomalies of Carbonates (173259)
Robina Shaheen, University of California San Diego, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, La Jolla, CA, United States, Vera Smirnova, University of California San Diego, Chemical Engineering, La Jolla, CA, United States, Teresa Lou Jackson, University of California San Diego, Department of Chemistry, La Jolla, United States, Lin Mang, University of California San Diego, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, La Jolla, United States and Mark H Thiemens, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States

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