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Session Proposal: Habitability Across the Solar System and Exoplanets (AGU25)

P018
Habitability Across the Solar System and Exoplanets

Session ID#: 247989

Session Description:
Exoplanetary and biogenicity discoveries are rapidly establishing new areas of collaborative work. Examples include serpentinization on Mars and methane in the atmosphere of possibly Hycean exoplanets like K2-18 b. Pioneering missions by emergent space-faring nations such as China, UAE, India, and the Republic of Korea are uniting the world in the scientific quest to answer: are we the universe’s sole habitat? Developments like NASA’s Moon to Mars program, the USA-NASEM study on Mars exploration strategy, and the KISS report on biosignature detection reinforce a transdisciplinary approach to understanding the interplay between astronomical conditions and biogenic processes. Contributors are invited to explore diverse topics unified by the thread of life, from stellar evolution to atmospheric biosignature detection, relevant to an upcoming special journal issue.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • C - Cryosphere
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
Index Terms:

5210 Planetary atmospheres, clouds, and hazes [PLANETARY SCIENCES: ASTROBIOLOGY]
5215 Origin of life [PLANETARY SCIENCES: ASTROBIOLOGY]
5220 Hydrothermal systems and weathering on other planets [PLANETARY SCIENCES: ASTROBIOLOGY]
5225 Early environment of Earth [PLANETARY SCIENCES: ASTROBIOLOGY]
Primary Convener:  Suniti Karunatillake, Louisiana State University, Planetary Science Lab, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Baton Rouge, LA, United States and Sri Lanka Space Time Initiative
Conveners:  Scott M Perl, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Mohit Melwani Daswani, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Carlos Gary Bicas, Louisiana State University, Geology & Geophysics, Baton Rouge, United States and Sri Lanka Space Time Initiative
Student/Early Career Convener:  Emmy Hughes, Louisiana State University, Riverside, CA, United States and Sri Lanka Space Time Initiative
 
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Potential Extended Past Habitability of Mars from Recent Mineralogical Measurements in Gale crater (1897290)
Elisabeth Hausrath1, James Hall2, Elizabeth B Rampe3, Thomas Bristow4, Amy McAdam5, Luoth Chou6, Steve Chipera7, Valerie Tu8, Benjamin M Tutolo9, Erwin Dehouck10, David T Vaniman11, Richard V Morris3, David Frederick Blake12, Johannes Meusburger4, Tanya Peretyazhko13, Douglas W Ming3, Patricia Craig14, Nicholas Castle7, Robert T Downs15, Robert M Hazen16, Allan H Treiman17, Shaunna Morrison18, Albert Yen19, Aditi Pandey20, Sarah Simpson21, Michael Thorpe22, David Des Marais23, Rachel Y Sheppard14 and Benton C Clark24, (1)University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, United States, (2)University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, United States, (3)NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (4)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States, (5)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (7)Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, United States, (8)Jacobs at NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, United States, (9)University of Calgary, Department of Earth, Energy, and Environment, Calgary, AB, Canada, (10)University Paul Sabatier, Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, Toulouse, France, (11)Planetary Science Institute, Tuscon, United States, (12)NASA Ames Research Center, Exobiology Branch, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (13)Jacobs Technology, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (14)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, United States, (15)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (16)Carnegie Inst, Washington, DC, United States, (17)Lunar & Planetary Inst, Houston, TX, United States, (18)Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick, United States, (19)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (20)Lunar and Planetary institute, Houston, United States, (21)Amentum, Houston, United States, (22)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt , MD, United States, (23)NASA Ames, Mountain View, CA, United States, (24)Space Science Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
 
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James Wray, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, United States, Karen Jean Meech, Institute for Astronomy, Honolulu, HI, United States, Nicolas Thomas, University of Bern, Division of Space Research and Planetary Sciences, Physics Institute, Bern, Switzerland, Miguel Almeida, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Gabriele Cremonese, INAF-OAPd, Padova, Italy, Alan Delamere, Delamere Space Sciences, Boulder, United States, Kristin Block, University of Arizona, Tucson, United States and The MRO/HiRISE team
 
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Devan Nisson, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States, Mohit Melwani Daswani, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Emmy Hughes, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, United States, Scott M Perl, University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Varsha Nair, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India, Sanjeewa Malaviarachchi, University of Peradeniya, Geology, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, Prasanna Dharmapriya, Department of Geology, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, H.M.T.G.a. Pitawala, University of Peradeniya, Department of Geology, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, Amit Basu Sarbadhikari, Physical Research Laboratory, PSDN, Ahmedabad, India, James Wray, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, United States, Dr. Frances Rivera-Hernandez, PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, United States, Meththika Vithanage, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Ecosphere Resilience Research Center, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka and Suniti Karunatillake, Louisiana State University, Geology and Geophysics, Baton Rouge, United States
 
Thermophiles Along Hydrothermal Gradients at El Tatio, Chile: Implications for Microbial Survival and Biosignature Preservation in Mars Analog Environments (1934604)
Maria Calderon-Marrero, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, Carolina Munoz-Saez, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, Ligia Fonseca Coelho, Cornell University, Cornell, United States and Zoë Gold, Cornell University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, United States
 
Go Beyond the Limit (GBL) drilling: How, why, and where does life become extinct in deep subseafloor environments, and what lies beyond the limit? (1936948)
Yuki Morono1, Masataka Kinoshita2, Makoto Yamano3, Junichiro Kuroda4, Yasuyuki Nakamura1, Verena Heuer5, Florence Schubotz6, Steven D'Hondt7, Robert A. Pockalny8, Kosuke Fujishima9, Tetsuhiro Hatakeyama10, Shuhei Ono11, Yohei Hamada12, Mako Takada13 and Masahito Hosokawa14, (1)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, (2)Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (3)The University of Tokyo, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, Kashiwa, Japan, (4)Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan, (5)Bremen University, Bremen, Germany, (6)MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (7)University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, United States, (8)University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, United States, (9)Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, (10)Earth-Life Science Institute, Meguro, Japan, (11)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States, (12)JAMSTEC, Kochi Institute for Core Sample Research, Nankoku, Japan, (13)The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (14)Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
 
Mercurial Worlds: the Climate Cycles and Habitability of Asynchronously Rotating K-Dwarf Planets (1940733)
Ana Lobo, Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, Seattle, United States, Michael L Wong, Carnegie Institution for Science, Earth and Planets Laboratory, Washington, United States, Vincent Kofman, Centre for Planetary Habitability, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Ravi Kopparapu, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Solar System Exploration Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Jacob D Haqq-Misra, Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, Seattle, WA, United States, Émilie Anne Laflèche, Purdue University, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, United States and Eric T Wolf, University of Colorado at Boulder, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, United States
 
Magnetite-Rich Serpentinized Environments as Prebiotic Catalytic Hubs: Insights from Terrestrial Analogs to Mars (1943384)
Sana Hasan Jagmag, Physical Research Laboratory Ahmedabad, Ahmedabad, India, Varsha M Nair, Physical Research Laboratory, Planetary Sciences, Ahmedabad, India, Amit Basu Sarbadhikari, Physical Research Laboratory, PSDN, Ahmedabad, India and Haitao Shang, The University of El Texas at El Paso, El Paso, United States; The University of Texas at El Paso, The Department of Earth, Environmental and Resource Sciences, El Paso, United States
 
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Carolina R Lithgow-Bertelloni1, Matthew Bogumil1 and Tushar Mittal2, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Penn State, Earth and Planetary Science, University Park, United States
 
Synergistic Effects of Ocean Salinity and Planetary Obliquity Enhance Exo-Earth Habitability (1955128)
Kyle P Batra, Purdue University, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States, Stephanie L. Olson, Purdue University, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, United States and Edward Schwieterman, University of California Riverside, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Riverside, CA, United States
 
Transforming Risk into Resilience: A Case Study of Field Safety in a Planetary-Analogue Expedition to Sri Lanka (1955251)
Taveesh Edussuriya, Ministry of Health- Sri Lanka, Colombo, Sri Lanka, Suniti Karunatillake, Louisiana State University, Geology and Geophysics, Baton Rouge, United States, Meththika Vithanage, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Ecosphere Resilience Research Center, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka, Prasanna Dharmapriya, Department of Geology, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, Yash Srivastava, Physical Research Laboratory Ahmedabad, Planetary Science Department, Ahmedabad, India, Nanda Balasooriya, Dept. of Geology, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka and Janaki Hewavisenthi, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, Pathology, Ragama, Sri Lanka
 
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Deepali Singh, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, School of Integrative Biological and Chemical Sciences, Edinburg, United States, Tian Yang Dong, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, School of Earth, Environmental, and Marine Sciences, Edinburg, United States and Eloi Camprubi, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, School of Integrative Biological & Chemical Sciences, Edinburg, United States
 
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Peter T Doran, Louisiana State University, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, Athena Coustenis, LESIA, Paris Observatory, CNRS, UPMC Univ. Paris 06, Univ. Paris-Diderot, Meudon, France, Alexander Hayes, Cornell University, Center for Astrophysics and Space Science, Ithaca, United States, Olivier Grasset, UMR-CNRS 6112, Nantes, France, Olga Prieto-Ballesteros, Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA), Madrid, Spain, Tim Haltigin, Canadian Space Agency, Saint-Hubert, Canada, Kanyan Xu, Chinese Academy of Space Technology, Beijing, China and The COSPAR Panel on planetary protection, Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), Paris, France
 
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