P069
Water, Habitability, and Curiosity’s Exploration near the Greenheugh Pediment, a Major Unconformity on Mount Sharp, Gale Crater, Mars II Posters

Tuesday, 15 December 2020: 04:00-20:59
Poster
Primary Convener:  Ashwin R Vasavada, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Mars Science Laboratory Science Team
Conveners:  Abigail Fraeman, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Michael A Meyer, NASA HQ, Washington, DC, United States and Mars Science Laboratory Science Team
Primary Liaison:  Ashwin R Vasavada, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Mars Science Laboratory Science Team
Chairs:  Ashwin R Vasavada, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Abigail Fraeman, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Michael A Meyer, NASA HQ, Washington, DC, United States and Mars Science Laboratory Science Team
OSPA Liaison:  Ashwin R Vasavada, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Mars Science Laboratory Science Team
 
APXS Compositional Investigation of the Greenheugh Pediment Capping Unit and Underlying Murray Formation: Déjà Vu (701117)
Lucy M Thompson1, Jeffrey A Berger2, Catherine O'Connell-Cooper1, Albert Yen3, Ralf Gellert4, John G Spray1, Michael McCraig4 and Scott VanBommel5, (1)University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada, (2)NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, (5)Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, United States
 
The Potential for Oxalates in the Glen Torridon Region within Gale Crater, Mars (666015)
James M. T. Lewis1, Jennifer L Eigenbrode1, Greg M Wong2, Amy McAdam3, Doug Archer Jr.4, Brad Sutter4, Elizabeth B Rampe5, Cherie Achilles1 and Heather B. Franz1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States, (3)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)Jacobs Technology, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (5)NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States
 
Sample Chemistry Revealed by TMAH-Evolved Gas Analysis: Results from the First In Situ Thermochemolysis Experiment at Gale Crater, Mars (670295)
Jennifer L Eigenbrode1, Amy J Williams2, Ross H Williams3, Arnaud Buch4, Samuel Teinturier1, Maëva Millan1,5, Daniel Patrick Glavin6, Caroline Freissinet7, Cyril Szopa7, James M. T. Lewis8, Amy McAdam1, Rafael Navarro-Gonzalez9, Heather B. Franz1, Doug Archer Jr.10, Brad Sutter10, Roger E Summons11, Andrew Steele12, Charles Malespin1 and Paul R Mahaffy13, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of Florida, Department of Geological Sciences, Gainesville, United States, (3)Center for Research and Exploration in Space Science and Technology, University of Maryland, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)CentraleSupelec, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, (5)Georgetown University, Washington, DC, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Solar System Exploration Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris Cedex 05, France, (8)Center for Research and Exploration in Space Science and Technology, Howard University, Washington, DC, United States, (9)Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, EM, Mexico, (10)Jacobs Technology, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (11)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (12)Carnegie Institution for Science of Washington, Geophysical Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (13)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Trimethylsulfoniumhydroxide (TMSH) as a Thermochemolysis Reagent for Detecting Fatty Acids in Mars and Ceres-analog Samples (749519)
Lydia Lazar Kivrak, University of Florida, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, Sydney Shaner, University of Florida, Geological Sciences, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, Lauren Judge, University of Florida, Department of Geological Sciences, Gainesville, FL, United States, Amy J Williams, University of Florida, Department of Geological Sciences, Gainesville, United States, Amy McAdam, NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Slavka C Andrejkovicova, Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Lipid Biosignature Detection by TMSH Thermochemolysis and Pyrolysis GC-MS in the Mars-Analog Sediments of Hyperarid Qaidam Basin, China (698017)
Sydney Shaner1, Amy J Williams2, Lauren Judge3, Lydia Kivrak3 and Guangsheng Zhuang4, (1)University of Minnesota, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (2)University of Florida, Department of Geological Sciences, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, (3)University of Florida, Department of Geological Sciences, Gainesville, FL, United States, (4)Department of Geology & Geophysics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, United States
 
The X-ray Amorphous Composition of Rocks Sampled from the Greenheugh Pediment and Underlying Murray Formation (734639)
Cherie Achilles1, Richard V Morris2, Thomas Bristow3, Travis S. J. Gabriel4, Elizabeth B Rampe2, Brad Sutter5, Albert Yen6, Michael Thorpe7, Steve Chipera8, Amy McAdam9, Douglas W Ming2, David Frederick Blake3, David Vaniman10, Shaunna M Morrison11, Robert T Downs12, Valerie Tu13, David Des Marais14, Robert Hazen11, Allan H Treiman15, Nicholas Castle8, Patricia Craig16, John P Grotzinger17, Gordon W Downs18 and Tanya Peretyazhko5, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (3)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (4)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (5)Jacobs Technology, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)NASA JSC, Houston, TX, United States, (8)Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, United States, (9)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (10)Planetary Science Institute, Tuscon, CA, United States, (11)Carnegie Institution for Science, Earth and Planets Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (12)University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, (13)Jacobs at NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, United States, (14)NASA Ames, Mountain View, CA, United States, (15)Lunar & Planetary Inst, Houston, TX, United States, (16)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, United States, (17)Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, (18)University of Arizona, Tucson, United States
 
Visible/Near-infrared Reflectance Spectra of Drill Tailings in the Glen Torridon and Greenheugh Pediment areas, Gale Crater, Mars (680708)
Jeffrey Roy Johnson1, Edward Cloutis2, Roger C Wiens3, Sylvestre Maurice4, James F Bell III5, Samantha Jacob5, Michael Thorpe6, Elizabeth B Rampe7, Christina Seeger8,9, Melissa S Rice10 and Briony H. N. Horgan11, (1)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (2)University of Winnipeg, Department of Geography, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, (3)Space Science and Applications, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (4)Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (IRAP), Toulouse, France, (5)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (6)NASA JSC, Houston, TX, United States, (7)NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (8)Western Washington University, Geology, Bellingham, WA, United States, (9)Williams College, Williamstown, MA, United States, (10)Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, United States, (11)Purdue University, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States
 
Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) Investigation of Chlorine and Bromine Enrichment at Gale Crater, Mars. (763959)
Michael McCraig1, Ralf Gellert1, Mariek E Schmidt2, Lucy M Thompson3, Catherine O'Connell-Cooper3, Jeffrey A Berger4, Scott VanBommel5 and Nicholas I Boyd6, (1)University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, (2)Brock University, St Catharines, ON, Canada, (3)University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada, (4)NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (5)Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, United States, (6)University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada
 
APXS CHEMISTRY OF RECENT FLOAT ROCKS AND THEIR POSSIBLE RELATION TO MAJOR FORMATIONS AT GALE CRATER (758578)
Ralf Gellert1, Jeffrey A Berger2, Nick Boyd1, Catherine O'Connell-Cooper3, Michael McCraig1, Lucy M Thompson3, Scott VanBommel4 and Albert Yen5, (1)University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, (2)NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (3)University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada, (4)Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, United States, (5)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Tridymite in Gale Crater: a Witness of Explosive Volcanism on Early Mars? (750699)
Valerie Payre, Rice University, Department of Earth Science, Houston, TX, United States, Kirsten Siebach, Rice University, Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Houston, TX, United States, Michael Thorpe, NASA JSC, Houston, TX, United States, Paula M Antoshechkina, California Inst Tech, Pasadena, CA, United States and Elizabeth B Rampe, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States
 
Identification and Characterizations of the Basal Sulfate-Bearing Stratum, Northern Mount Sharp, Mars (704620)
Madison N Hughes and Raymond E Arvidson, Washington University in St Louis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, St. Louis, MO, United States
 
High Spatial Resolution Thermal Inertia Mapping of Mount Sharp and Northern Plains, Gale Crater, Mars (752410)
John Christian1, Raymond E Arvidson1, Joseph A O'Sullivan2 and Eleanor Moreland3, (1)Washington University in St Louis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, St. Louis, MO, United States, (2)Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States, (3)Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States
 
Radiation Shadowing at Butte M12 in the Murray Buttes Formation (746595)
Bent Ehresmann1, Don Hassler2, Cary Zeitlin1, Robert F Wimmer-Schweingruber3, Jingnan Guo4 and Gunther Reitz5, (1)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Kiel, Institute for Experimental and Applied Physics, Kiel, Germany, (4)University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, (5)German Aerospace Center DLR Cologne, Cologne, Germany
 
Water quality-evaporation modeling of microbial habitability of potential Martian brines (764743)
Sara Smith, University of Nevada Reno, Graduate Program of Hydrologic Sciences, Reno, NV, United States and Simon R Poulson, University of Nevada Reno, Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering, Reno, NV, United States
 
Comparative Study of the Ability of Three Martian Simulants to Support Bacterial Growth (664655)
Samuel P Kounaves1, Dongyu Liu2 and Neveda Naz1,3, (1)Tufts University, Medford, MA, United States, (2)Tufts University, Chemistry, Medford, MA, United States, (3)Tufts University, Chemistry, Boston, MA, United States
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