P31C:
Planetary Habitability and the Main Control Factors I Posters
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Session ID#: 50951
Session Description:
This session addresses the broad question of what a planet needs to enable life as we know it to thrive. Is a solar-type star required? And/or a particular electromagnetic spectrum? Does a planet need a magnetic field to sustain an atmosphere? Is an atmosphere or a magnetic field more efficient at deflecting penetrating radiation and cosmic rays? Are tides required and therefore a moon? Does a solar system need a Jupiter-like planet to protect inner planets? We invite abstracts related to these topics in general and in particular: 1) relevant phenomena at Earth, for example atmospheric stripping, polar wind, auroral heating, magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling; 2) how do solar system objects like Venus and Titan sustain robust (but apparently uninhabitable) atmospheres despite having no magnetic field; 3) where on Mars might life still be found and why and 4) which exoplanets are most likely to sustain an habitable atmosphere?
Primary Convener: Abigail M Rymer, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States
Conveners: Alex Glocer, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, Yaxue Dong, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States and Katherine Garcia-Sage, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Liaison: Abigail M Rymer, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
Chairs: Abigail M Rymer, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States and Alex Glocer, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States
OSPA Liaison: Abigail M Rymer, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
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Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Bruce Martin Jakosky, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, UNITED STATES and Dave A Brain, University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States
Thomas Earle Moore, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, United States, Dave A Brain, University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, Alex Glocer, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, Douglas E. Rowland, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Robert J Strangeway, University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States
Shawn D Domagal-Goldman, NASA Headquarters, Washington, United States, Ravi Kopparapu, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Solar System Exploration Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Vitrual Planetary Laboratory
Rory Barnes1, Rodrigo Luger1, Russell Deitrick2, Peter E. Driscoll3, David Fleming4, Hayden Smotherman4, Thomas Quinn4, Diego McDonald4, Caitlyn Wilhelm4, Benjamin Guyer4, Victoria Suzanne Meadows5, Shawn D Domagal-Goldman6, John Armstrong7, Pramod Gupta4 and The Virtual Planetary Laboratory, (1)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Astronomy, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)University of Victoria, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Victoria, Canada, (3)Carnegie Institution for Science Washington, Washington, United States, (4)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, United States, (5)SETI Institute, Seattle, United States, (6)NASA Headquarters, Washington, United States, (7)Weber State University, Ogden, United States
Chuanfei Dong1, Janet G Luhmann2, Yingjuan Ma3, Manasvi Lingam4, Amitava Bhattacharjee5, Yuni Lee6, Stephen W Bougher7, Liang Wang8, Alex Glocer9, Robert J Strangeway3, Shannon Curry10, Xiaohua Fang11, Gabor Toth12, Andrew F Nagy13, Robert J Lillis14, David L Mitchell14, Dave A Brain15 and Bruce Martin Jakosky16, (1)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, (4)Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, United States, (5)Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (7)Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (8)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (9)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (10)University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (11)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States, (12)University of Michigan, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (13)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (14)Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (15)University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (16)University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, UNITED STATES
