P24D:
“The New Mars Underground”: Science and Exploration of a New Deep Frontier III


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Session ID#: 63498

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
Co-Organized with:
Planetary Sciences, and Near Surface Geophysics

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • C - Cryosphere
  • H - Hydrology
  • NS - Near Surface Geophysics

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • NS - Near Surface Geophysics
Index Terms:

0456 Life in extreme environments [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0758 Remote sensing [CRYOSPHERE]
1829 Groundwater hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
6225 Mars [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The HP3 Instrument Package for the InSight Mission: A Tool to Explore the first few Meters of the Martian Interior. (430214)
Tilman Spohn, German Aerospace Center DLR Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Matthias Grott, German Aerospace Ctr DLR, Berlin, Germany, Knollenberg Joerg, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Berlin, Germany, Tom Wippermann, German Aerospace Center Bremen, Bremen, Germany, Jerzy Grygorczuk, Space Research Center Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland, Lukas Wisniewsky, Astronika, Warsaw, Poland, Axel Hagermann, University of Stirling, Stirling, United Kingdom, Roy Lichtenheldt, German Aerospace Center DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany and HP-cubed Team
Towards Mars Subsurface Habitability in 4D with Parameterized and Full Mantle Convection Thermal Evolution Models (415945)
Ana-Catalina Plesa1, Doris Breuer1 and Vlada Stamenkovic2, (1)German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Planetary Research, Berlin, Germany, (2)MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States
H2 and CH4 Production, Storage, and Release Over ~4.5 Gyr of Martian History: Implications for Atmospheric Warming, Habitability, and ISRU (437871)
Jesse Dylan Tarnas, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, John F Mustard, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, United States, Barbara Sherwood Lollar, University of Toronto, Department of Earth Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada, Michael Bramble, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Kevin Cannon, University of Central Florida, Physics, Orlando, FL, United States, Ashley Margaret Margaret Palumbo, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States and Ana-Catalina Plesa, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Planetary Research, Berlin, Germany
Exploring Martian subsurface through a new approach of monitoring Martian trace gases in future missions (400944)
Nathan Barba1, Sona Hosseini2, Vlada Stamenkovic3, Christopher R Webster4, Yen-Hung Wu5, Tomas Komarek6 and Ryan Woolley6, (1)JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (3)MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)JPL, Pasadena, United States
P-RAID: Deep Subglacial Bedrock Sampling (346254)
Ryan Timoney1, Kevin Worrall2, Patrick Harkness2, Julius Rix3, Robert Mulvaney3 and Daniel Ashurst3, (1)University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12, United Kingdom, (2)University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, (3)British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Deep-UV fluorescence and Raman instrumentation for organic detection in subsurface environments (466650)
Evan Eshelman1, Greg Wanger2, Michael Malaska3, William Abbey4, Kenneth S. Manatt5, Haley M Sapers6, Luther W Beegle7, Wei Li8, John C Priscu9, Bolek Mellerowicz10, Gale Paulsen10, Kris Zacny11 and Rohit Bhartia4, (1)JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)K2 Technical Services, Pasadena CA, United States, (6)University of Western Ontario, Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration, London, ON, Canada, (7)Melanie Sauer & Associates LLC, Sierra Madre, United States, (8)Peking University, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Beijing, China, (9)Desert Research Institute, Division of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences, Reno, United States, (10)Honeybee Robotics Pasadena, Pasadena, CA, United States, (11)Honeybee Robotics-Blue Origin, Altadena, United States
Searching for Life in the Martian Dark: an Investigation of Biosignatures in Analog Lava Tubes (438601)
Sarah Johnson1, Elena Zaikova2, Maëva Millan3,4, Amy J Williams5, Kathleen L Craft6, Nicole Y. Y. Wagner1, Julie Grace Bevilacqua1, Angela Bai1, Savannah Fuqua7, Shannon E Kobs-Nawotniak8, Ashley Shields8, Amy McAdam9, Christine A Knudson10, Scott S Hughes11, William Brent Garry9, Jennifer L Heldmann12 and Darlene Sze Shien Lim12, (1)Georgetown University, Washington, DC, United States, (2)University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (4)Georgetown University, Washington, United States, (5)University of Florida, Department of Geological Sciences, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, (6)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (7)Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, United States, (8)Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID, United States, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (10)CRESST/University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (11)Idaho State University, Idaho Falls, ID, United States, (12)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
Insight into the Subsurface Structure of Mid-Latitude Glaciers and Mantles on Mars from Impact Craters and Radar Sounding (409543)
David M. H. Baker, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Lynn M Carter, University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, AZ, United States and Gareth A Morgan, Planetary Science Institute, Washington DC, United States
Modeling the Origin and Evolution of Habitable Environments in Post-Impact Hydrothermal Systems Beneath Martian Craters (445113)
Timothy J Bowling and Simone Marchi, Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States

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