Astrobiological Assay Validation across Gradients in Mars Analogue Sites: Lessons from the FELDSPAR Project


Diana Gentry1, Elena Amador2, Morgan L Cable3, Thomas Cantrell4, Nosheen Chaudry5, Thomas Cullen5, Zachary A Duca4, David King6, Jessica Kirby5, Malene B Jacobsen7, Heather Catherine McCaig8, Gayathri Murukesan9, Adrianne Reeder10, Vincent Rennie4, Edward Schwieterman11, Alexander Michael Sessa12, Adam Stevens13, Scot M Sutton II12, George Kenneth Tan4, Chang Yin14, David Cullen5, Wolf Geppert14 and Amanda M. Stockton15, (1)NASA Ames Research Center, Biospheric Science Branch, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (2)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (4)Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Atlanta, GA, United States, (5)Cranfield University, Cranfield, United Kingdom, (6)Self Employed, Washington, United States, (7)University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, (8)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (9)University of Turku, Turku, Finland, (10)University of Idaho, Geology, Moscow, ID, United States, (11)University of California Riverside, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Riverside, CA, United States, (12)Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States, (13)University of Edinburgh, UK Centre for Astrobiology, School of Physics and Astronomy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (14)Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, (15)Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Atlanta, United States