P42B:
What Determines Planetary Habitability, and What Biosignatures Might We Expect? I
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Session ID#: 34695
Session Description:
This session addresses what a planet needs to enable life as we know it to thrive, what are the biosignatures of life, and how might we recognize them? Is a solar-type star required? Does a planet need a magnetic field to sustain an atmosphere? Which exoplanets are most likely to sustain a habitable atmosphere? In order to recognize life when we find it, it is particularly vital to distinguish signatures of abiotic from biotic processes: on Earth, when biology is involved, trace elements are often found in chemical disequilibrium with their surroundings, such terrestrial analogs may be applied in our search for life in the solar system and beyond. What potential biosignatures have been observed? What new studies, terrestrial analogs, and observations are required to understand if these are biosignatures? How might they be detected with future missions? And where should we go to look?
Primary Convener: Abigail M Rymer, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States
Convener: Patrick James Gasda, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States
Chairs: Abigail M Rymer, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States and Patrick James Gasda, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States
OSPA Liaison: Patrick James Gasda, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Dave A Brain, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Hilary Lauren Egan, University of Colorado Boulder, Astrophysical and Planetary Science, Boulder, CO, United States, Yingjuan Ma, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Riku Jarvinen, Finnish Meteorological Inst, Helsinki, Finland, Bruce Martin Jakosky, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States, Thomas Earle Moore, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States and Katherine Garcia-Sage, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States
Chuanfei Dong1, Zhenguang Huang2, Meng Jin3, Manasvi Lingam4, Yingjuan Ma5, Gabor Toth2, Bart van der Holst2, Vladimir Airapetian6, Ofer Cohen7 and Tamas I Gombosi2, (1)Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, (2)University of Michigan, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (3)Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA, United States, (4)Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, United States, (5)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (6)SEEC/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center & American University, DC, SEEC, Greenbelt, United States, (7)University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, United States
Amy J Williams1, Jennifer L Eigenbrode2, Mary Beth Wilhelm3, Sarah Johnson4, Kathleen L Craft5, Shane O'Reilly6, James M T Lewis7, Ross Hamilton Williams2, Roger E Summons8, Kathleen Benison9 and Paul R Mahaffy10, (1)University of Florida, Department of Geological Sciences, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (4)Georgetown University, Washington, DC, United States, (5)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (6)University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, (7)Center for Research and Exploration in Space Science and Technology, Howard University, Washington, United States, (8)MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, United States, (9)West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States, (10)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
Ricardo Arevalo Jr1, Andrej Grubisic2, Friso H W van Amerom3, Ryan Danell4, Xiang Li5, Desmond Kaplan6, Veronica T. Pinnick2, William B Brinckerhoff7, Stephanie Getty2, Fred Goesmann8 and and the MOMA Team, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Mini Mass Consulting, Hyattsville, United States, (4)Danell Consulting, Winterville, NC, United States, (5)UCLA, JIFFRESSE, Los Angeles, United States, (6)KapScience, Boston, MA, United States, (7)NASA, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS), Gottingen, Germany
Dina M Bower1, Andrew Steele2, Michael R Ackerson3, Emma Bullock4, Owen R Green5, Marc Fries6 and Pamela Gales Conrad1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (2)Carnegie Science, Earth and Planets Laboratory, Washington, United States, (3)Carnegie Institution for Science, Geophysical Laboratory, Washington, United States, (4)Carnegie Institution for Science, Earth and Planets Laboratory, Washington, United States, (5)University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom, (6)NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States
Ann Ollila1, Olivier Beyssac2, Dr. Shiv K Sharma, Ph. D.3, Anupam K Misra4, Samuel M Clegg5, Michel Gauthier6, Roger C Wiens7, Sylvestre Maurice8, Olivier Gasnault9 and Nina Lanza1, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Institut de Minéralogie, de Physique des Matériaux et de Cosmochimie (IMPMC), Sorbonne Université, CNRS, MNHN, Paris, France, (3)Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, Earth Sciences, Honolulu, United States, (4)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, Honolulu, United States, (5)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (6)Sorbonne Université - MNHN - CNRS - IMPMC, IMPMC, Paris, France, (7)CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France, (8)IRAP, CNRS, Université de Toulouse, UPS-OMP, Toulouse, France, (9)IRAP, Toulouse, France
