Exploring Underwater Vent Systems: New Technologies and Strategies to Advance Life Detection and Scientific Understanding of Ocean Worlds


Pablo Sobron1, Laura M Barge2, Jan Amend3, Justin Burnett4, Renaud Detry5, Ivria Doloboff6, Deborah S Kelley7, Aaron Marburg8, Anupam K Misra9, Anuscheh Nawaz8, Roy E Price10, Marianne Smith11, Kris Zacny12 and Blair Thornton13, (1)SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)University of Southern California, Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, United States, (5)JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, United States, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)University of Washington Seattle Campus, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States, (8)Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (9)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, Honolulu, United States, (10)USC-Earth Sciences Dept, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (11)Citrus College, Glendora, CA, United States, (12)Honeybee Robotics-Blue Origin, Altadena, United States, (13)Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan