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Session Proposal: Planetary near-surface geophysics (AGU25)

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Planetary near-surface geophysics

Session ID#: 248759

Session Description:
Current and imminent planetary exploration missions are offering a chance to use Earth analog settings and expand near-surface geophysical concepts and technology, especially to assist planned Artemis missions to the Moon. The use of these methods will likely widen as NASA’s Moon to Mars program accelerates, alongside those of other space agencies internationally (e.g., China, UAE, India). Terrestrial exploration approaches may support in-situ resource mapping, geotechnical characterization and geologic mapping of the upper tens of meters of regolith and soils. We encourage submissions of novel approaches that address exciting ongoing or potential scientific advances in the shallow subsurface of planetary bodies in our Solar System. Advances in non-disruptive geophysical methods for in situ, aerial, and orbital deployments, including for resource prospecting, are particularly encouraged. Development of underlying conceptual models – including on landscape evolution -- and numerical methods are similarly welcomed.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • MR - Mineral and Rock Physics
  • P - Planetary Sciences
  • S - Seismology
Index Terms:

5410 Composition [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
5422 Ices [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
7294 Seismic instruments and networks [SEISMOLOGY]
Primary Convener:  Juan M Lorenzo, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
Conveners:  Katherine Mesick, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Space Science and Applications (ISR-1), Los Alamos, NM, United States and Paul M Bremner, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Han Byul Woo, NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, United States
 
Active Seismic Exploration of Planetary Subsurface via Terrestrial Analog Studies (Invited) (1846334)
Jingchuan Wang1, Nicholas C Schmerr2, Naoma McCall3, Ernest Bell4, Jacob A Richardson3, Patrick Whelley3, Jacob Giles2, Sarah Kruse5, Vedran Lekic2, Ryan C Porter6, John D West7 and the GEODES Team, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland, Department of Geology, College Park, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (4)University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geology, College Park, United States, (5)University of South Florida, Tampa, United States, (6)Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (7)Arizona State University, Tempe, United States
 
Tracking Seasonal Dynamics Using Geophysical Methods at an Euxinic, Methane- and Saline-Rich Spring (1846478)
Liam Nell1, Joshua Thompson2, Caitlin Anne Hodges3, Dani Storms3, Itunu Apalara3, Katherine Sluder3, Megan Elwood Madden4, Andrew Stephen Elwood Madden4, Brittany Moehnke3 and Sina Saneiyan1, (1)Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, United States, (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States, (4)Michigan State University, East Lansing, United States
 
Identification of Thermal Boulder-quakes and Their Possible Source Locations in the Apollo 17 Lunar Seismic Profiling Experiment Data (Invited) (1854299)
Yuri Tamama1, Francesco Civilini2, Allen L Husker3 and Jennifer M Jackson3, (1)California Institute of Technology, Seismological Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)California Institute of Technology, Seismological Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
 
Geophysics of the Lake Tüttensee meteorite crater ensemble (Chiemgau impact strewn field, Germany) (1892566)
Kord Ernstson, Faculty of Philosophy I, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany and Jens Poßekel, Geophysik Poßekel Hornhof 14, 45479 Mülheim, Mülheim/Ruhr, Germany
 
Rotation seismology for planetary subsurface: From Mars results with SEIS/InSight to Lunar perspectives on Rovers (1904407)
Philippe Henri Lognonné1, Lucile Fayon2 and Taichi Kawamura1, (1)Université Paris Cité, Institut de physique du globe de Paris, CNRS, Paris, France, (2)Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
 
Field Validation of Planetary Geophysical Methods in Mars-Analog Environments (1918202)
David E Stillman1, Douglas E Kowalewski2, Cynthia L Dinwiddie3, Rachael Hoover4, Andrew Wilcoski5, Jani Radebaugh6, Emmanuel Oladeji7,8, Emma Gosselin6, Dr. Charity M Phillips-Lander, PhD3, David Wendt9, Mauricio Flores10, Dylan Parmenter11 and Robert E Grimm4, (1)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Planetary Science Directorate, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Boston University, Boston, United States, (3)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (4)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (6)Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, United States, (7)University of California Davis, Davis, United States, (8)University of California Davis, Department of Earth & Planetary Science, Davis, CA, United States, (9)Southwest Research Institute, Space Science Division, San Antonio, United States, (10)Southwest Research Institute, Space Science, San Antonio, United States, (11)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States
 
Analysis of Moonquake Waveform Characteristics During Apollo 17 (1921511)
Srinidhi Guruvayurappan, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States, Francesco Civilini, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Nicholas C Schmerr, University of Maryland, Department of Geology, College Park, United States
 
Real-Time Autonomous Seismic Detection for Planetary Missions (1953484)
Francesco Civilini1, Denis Leshchev2, Allen L Husker3, Adam Thompson2, Naoma McCall4, Nicholas C Schmerr5 and Jim Hooks2, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NVIDIA, Santa Clara, United States, (3)California Institute of Technology, Seismological Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (4)University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States, (5)University of Maryland, Department of Geology, College Park, United States
 
Gravitational Attenuation During the 2023 Annular Solar Eclipse in Colombia. (1993499)
Paola Atapuma, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Cundinamarca, Bogota, Colombia, Luis Hernan Ochoa Gutierrez, Univ. Nacional de Colombia, Bogota D.C., Colombia and Laura Daniela Jimenez, No, cundinamarca, Bogota, Colombia
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