P23B:
“The New Mars Underground”: Science and Exploration of a New Deep Frontier II
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Session ID#: 60242
Session Description:
The Martian underground within a depth of a few miles is of enormous interest for planetary sciences. But so far, studies and exploration of Mars’ subsurface have taken a back seat to exploration of its surface. This is now changing with the imminent Mars InSight (NASA) & ExoMars (ESA) missions, Mars Sample Return calling for a deeper understanding of the shallow Mars subsurface, plans for human exploration, and as better technical capabilities and scientific understanding finally enable accessing the Mars underground. We seek contributions that encompass the nature and diversity of Mars crustal subsurface environments (modeling, experiments, observations) or the tools for exploring them (sounding, drilling, cave explorer robotics, in situ analysis techniques). Broad themes are related to the distribution/cycling of subsurface water (ice/liquid), brines and other volatiles, the astrobiological (extinct or extant life) and ISRU potential of Mars’ subsurface, and the technologies and mission concepts that enable such exploration.
Primary Convener: Vlada Stamenkovic, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners: Penelope Jane Boston, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States, Robert E Grimm, Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Kris Zacny, Honeybee Robotics-Blue Origin, Altadena, United States
Primary Liaison: Vlada Stamenkovic, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Chairs: Vlada Stamenkovic, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States, Penelope Jane Boston, NASA Astrobiology Institute, Moffett Field, CA, United States and Kris Zacny, Honeybee Robotics-Blue Origin, Altadena, United States
OSPA Liaison: Robert E Grimm, Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
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Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Joseph Michalski, University of Hong Kong, Dept of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Barbara Sherwood Lollar, University of Toronto, Department of Earth Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada, Sushil K Atreya, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States, Alan P. Boss, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, DC, United States, Paul G. Falkowski, Rutgers University, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, Jack D Farmer, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, Olivier Guyon, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, Gerald F. Joyce, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA, United States, James F Kasting, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States, Victoria Suzanne Meadows, SETI Institute, Seattle, United States, Phil M. Neches, Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, New York City, NY, United States, Carl B Pilcher, Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, Seattle, WA, United States, Nilton O. Renno, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, Karyn L Rogers, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, United States, Britney Schmidt, Cornell University, Astronomy and Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, United States, Roger E Summons, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, Frances Westall, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris Cedex 16, France and Shelley A. Wright, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
Tullis C Onstott1, Bethany L Ehlmann2, Haley M Sapers3, Cara Magnabosco4, Maggie Lau1, Thomas L Kieft5, Rachel Lee Harris6, Jeffrey J Marlow7, Magnus Ivarsson8 and Anna Neubeck9, (1)Princeton University, Department of Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)California Institute of Technology, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)University of Western Ontario, Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration, London, ON, Canada, (4)Simons Foundation, Flatiron Institute Center for Computational Biology, New York, NY, United States, (5)New Mexico Institute of Technology, Department of Biology, Socorro, NM, United States, (6)Harvard University, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Cambridge, United States, (7)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, (8)Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden, (9)Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Kevin Cannon, University of Central Florida, Physics, Orlando, FL, United States
Luther W Beegle1, Vlada Stamenkovic2,3, Kris Zacny4, Alfonso F Davila5, Jerry Sanders6, Rohit Bhartia7, David W Beaty3, Pietro Baglioni, William B Brinckerhoff9, Ian Cooper10, Mary Sue Bell11, Nathaniel E Putzig12 and Robert E Grimm13, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Honeybee Robotics-Blue Origin, Altadena, United States, (5)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States, (6)NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (7)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (8)NASA, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (9)Schlumberger, Houston, United States, (10)Jacobs Technology, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (11)Planetary Science Institute, Lakewood, United States, (12)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Nathaniel E Putzig, Planetary Science Institute, Lakewood, CO, United States
Patrick N Peplowski, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
Shuichi Ushijima, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Raina V Gough, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States and Margaret A Tolbert, University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Chemistry and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States
Richard McGuire Davis, NASA Headquarters, Washington, United States
