P035
The New Mars Underground: Nexus of Decadal Planetary Science Objectives

Session ID#: 158934

Session Description:
Every ten years, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine undertakes a largescale survey of planetary scientists to identify priority scientific questions to NASA for the upcoming decade, recommending strategic advice to approach these questions and endorsing a complementary portfolio of missions to pursue them in collaboration with international partners. According to the National Academies, the highest scientific priority of NASA’s robotic exploration efforts in the decade from 2023-2032 should be the completion of Mars Sample Return (MSR) and, following that, the prioritization of the Mars Life Explorer (MLE) as the next New Frontiers-class mission. Intimately tied to these decadal objectives is the ongoing characterization of the Martian subsurface, particularly with regards to 1) the distribution and stability of modern liquid water and water ice inventories; 2) the provenance and isotopic signatures of organics and trace gases that may serve as potential biosignatures; 3) and the identification of habitable “refugia environments” where local conditions are conducive to support metabolic strategies of extant microbial Martian life, should it exist. To this end, for our fifth “New Mars Underground”, we welcome abstracts that champion the intrinsic relevance the Martian subsurface has for the next decade of planetary science. We anticipate diverse contributions informed by remote observation, theoretical modelling, technological development, and laboratory/field experimentation of relevant terrestrial analog sites and materials.
Index Terms:

0406 Astrobiology and extraterrestrial materials [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0490 Trace gases [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
6225 Mars [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
6297 Instruments and techniques [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]

Primary Convener:  Rachel Lee Harris, Harvard University, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Cambridge, MA, United States
Convener:  Ana-Catalina Plesa, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Planetary Research, Berlin, Germany
Student/Early Career Convener:  Rachel Lee Harris, Harvard University, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Cambridge, MA, United States
 
Shallow Water Ice on Mars in the Northern Mid-to-High Latitudes (1050349)
Sylvain Piqueux, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, David M Kass, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Armin Kleinboehl, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, Paul Ottinger Hayne, University of Colorado, Boulder, Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences Department, Boulder, CO, United States, Nicholas G Heavens, Hampton University, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Hampton, VA, United States, Daniel J McCleese, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States; Synoptic Sciences, Altadena, United States and John T. Schofield, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Science Division, Pasadena, United States
 
Constraints on lithology, pore-filling media, and pore closure depth beneath Insight on Mars (1051913)
Richard Kilburn1, Vanshan Wright2, Jhardel Dasent1 and Michael Manga3, (1)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (2)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, CA, United States, (3)Univ of California Berkeley, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Lessons Learned from the Search for Organic Biosignatures of Ancient Life on Earth with Application to Mars (Invited) (1057118)
Katherine French, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, United States
 
LIMITED RECHARGE ON EARLY MARTIAN AQUIFERS: Numeric & Analytic Recharge Rate Estimates As Constrained By Geomorphic and Geochemical Observations. (1073684)
Eric Hiatt1,2, Mohammad Afzal Shadab1,3, Marc A Hesse3,4, Sean P S Gulick1,2 and Timothy A Goudge2,4, (1)The University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, United States, (2)The University of Texas at Austin, Center for Planetary Systems Habitability, Austin, United States, (3)The University of Texas at Austin, Oden Institute for Computational Engineering & Sciences, Austin, United States, (4)The University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States
 
Exploration of the Martian subsurface by the RIMFAX Ground Penetrating Radar on the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover. (1105868)
Svein-Erik Hamran1, David A Paige2, Hans E. F. Amundsen3, Tor Berger1, Sverre Brovoll1, Titus Casademont1, Lynn M Carter4, Leif Damsgard1, Henning Dypvik1, Sigurd Eide1, Rebecca R Ghent5, Jack Kohler6, Michael T Mellon7, Daniel Cahn Nunes8, Dirk Plettemeier9, Patrick Russell10 and Matthew Siegler11, (1)University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, (2)University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)Vestfonna Geophysical, Trondheim, Norway, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Cent, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, (6)Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø, Norway, (7)Cornell University, Ithaca, United States, (8)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (9)Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany, (10)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (11)Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, United States
 
International Mars Ice Mapper: Mission Concept Outline and Traceability to Decadal Survey Priorities (Invited) (1111903)
Tomohiro Usui, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Sagamihara, Japan, Michelle Viotti, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Michael S Kelley, NASA Headquarters, Washington, United States, Richard McGuire Davis, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States, Raffaele Mugnuolo, Italian Space Agency, Rome, Italy and Tim Haltigin, Canadian Space Agency, Saint-Hubert, QC, Canada
 
Barometric Pumping Through Fractured Rock: A Mechanism for Venting Deep Underground Methane to Mars’ Atmosphere (1115047)
John P Ortiz, Johns Hopkins University, Environmental Health and Engineering, Baltimore, MD, United States, Harihar Rajaram, Johns Hopkins University, Environmental Health and Engineering, Baltimore, United States, Phil H Stauffer, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Computational Earth Science, Los Alamos, United States, Dylan R Harp, The Freshwater Trust, Science and Analytics Team, Portland, United States, Roger C Wiens, Purdue University, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, United States and Kevin W Lewis, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, United States
 
Aqueous Alteration of Two Drill Core from Hawaii: A Geochemical Analog to Alteration in the Martian Subsurface (1116889)
Pooja Sheevam, University of Nevada Reno, Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering, Reno, NV, United States, Wendy M Calvin, Univ of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States and Thomas Bristow, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
 
An Improved Model for H2O Ice Sublimation on Mars: Implications for Martian Ice Stability and Evolution (1117529)
Aditya Rai Khuller, Arizona State University, Tempe, United States and Gary Clow, University of Colorado, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Magnetic Investigations of the Martian Subsurface (1121374)
Jared R Espley, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
 
Microbial Membrane Lipids From Mars Analog Hypersaline Lakes (1134846)
Mia Thompson1, Floyd Nichols1, Alexandra Pontefract2 and Magdalena R Osburn1, (1)Northwestern University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Evanston, IL, United States, (2)Georgetown University, Biology, Washington, United States
 
Modeling Catastrophic Flood Events in Osuga Valles, Mars using HEC-RAS (1141697)
Dalia Portillo, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, Roy Naor, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel and Virginia Gulick, University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Sciences, Tucson, United States
 
Simulating Electroseismic Signals for Water Exploration in the Near Surface of Mars (1155410)
Nolan Roth, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States and Tieyuan Zhu, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geosciences, University Park, United States
 
Uncovering a High-Resolution Climate Record in the Martian North Polar Layered Deposits (1171997)
Daniel Lalich, Cornell University, Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, Ithaca, NY, United States, Valerio Poggiali, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, Maria Carmela Raguso, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States and Alexander Hayes, Cornell University, Department of Astronomy, Ithaca, United States
 
Methanogenesis at 7-12 mbar under a simulated Martian atmosphere: New revelations from transcriptomics on the habitability of the shallow Martian subsurface (1184109)
Rachel Lee Harris, Harvard University, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Cambridge, MA, United States and Andrew C. Schuerger, University of Florida, Department of Plant Pathology, Gainesville, FL, United States
 
Mapping Martian Ice Resources to Support Future Radar and Human Missions. (1193547)
Gareth A Morgan1, Nathaniel E Putzig2, David M. H. Baker3, Asmin Pathare4, Colin M Dundas5, Matthew Chojnacki2, Megan B Russell6, Matthew Perry2 and the Mars SWIM Team, (1)Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, United States, (2)Planetary Science Institute, Lakewood, CO, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)Planetary Science Institute, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)U. S. Geological Survey, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (6)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, United States
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