JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting 2017

Session information

[EE] Oral

B (Biogeosciences) » B-CG Complex & General

[B-CG08] [EE] From Deep Sea to Deep Space: the Solar System Ocean World Exploration to Search for Life

Tue. May 23, 2017 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM 201B (International Conference Hall 2F)

convener:Hajime Yano(Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), Christophe Sotin(Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Ken Takai(Extremobiosphere Research Center, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science & Technology), Chairperson:Hajime Yano(Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), Chairperson:Christophe Sotin(Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

Since 2000's, deep space exploration missions such as the Galileo to the Jovian system and the Cassini/Huygens to the Saturn system have demonstrated that several icy satellites (e.g., Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Titan, and Enceladus) have a deep global ocean below their icy crust. Among them, Europa and Enceladus are likely to have liquid water in contact with a rocky core, an interface very similar to the terrestrial, deep sea-floor where life was discovered about 50 years ago. 'Ocean worlds' within our Solar System hold the greatest potential in humanity's search for extant life, as well as a second abiogenesis (independent origin of life) beyond the Earth. Comparative oceanography of conditions on the Earth, Europa, Enceladus, Titan, and elsewhere will likely also spark new discoveries and insights that inform our search for Earth-like worlds among the rapidly growing list of exoplanets. To achieve this goal that will game-change astrobiology research, interdisciplinary collaborations among astronomy, planetary science, oceanography, geophysics, chemistry and biology are must and such efforts have been started in Japan, the United States, and Europe since early 2010's. This session thus welcomes papers describing the diversity of terrestrial seafloor fluid flows, the diversity of biological populations, the technologies involved in the exploration of the terrestrial sea-floor, physical, chemical and potentially biological conditions in deep oceans of the icy satellites, key instrument developments for habitability investigation and biomarker and life detections on the Earth and other 'ocean worlds' in the Solar System, lessons learned from the terrestrial deep sea exploration to deep space exploration including planetary protection issues, and prospects for the Solar System ocean world exploration missions in the coming decades.

9:00 AM - 9:15 AM

*Yasuhiko OHARA1,2, Tomoyo Okumura2, Robert Stern3, Yuji Onishi4, Shoma Oya5, Chong Chen2, Hiromi Kayama WATANABE2, Toshiro Yamanaka6, Masakazu Fujii7, Fernando Martinez8, Teruaki Ishii5, Katsuyoshi Michibayashi5, Ken Takai2, Science party for the Shinkai Seep Expeditions (1.Hydrographic and Oceanographic Department of Japan, 2.Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, 3.University of Texas at Dallas, 4.Okayama University, 5.Shizuoka University, 6.Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, 7.National Institute of Polar Research, 8.University of Hawaii)

9:45 AM - 10:00 AM

*Elizabeth P Turtle1, Jason W Barnes2, Melissa G Trainer3, Ralph D Lorenz1, Shannon M MacKenzie2, Kenneth E Hibbard1, Douglas S Adams1, Peter Bedini1, Jacob W Langelaan4, Kris Zacny5 (1.Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, 2.University of Idaho, Moscow, 3.NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 4.Pennsylvania State University, 5.Honeybee Robotics)

10:15 AM - 10:30 AM

*Christophe Sotin1, Alex Hayes2, Francis Nimmo3, Melissa Trainer4, Marco Mastrogiuseppe5, Jason Soderblom6, Paolo Tortora7, Oded Aharonson8, Jason Barnes9, Rob Hodyss1, Mike Malaska1, Luciano Iess7, Randy Kirk10, Panayotis Lavvas11, Ralph Lorenz12, Jonathan Lunine2, Erwan Mazarico4, Alfred McEwen13, Catherine Neish14, Conor Nixon4, Elizabeth Turtle12, Veronique Vuitton15, Roger Yelle13 (1.Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 2.Department of Astronomy, Cornell University, 3.Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California at Santa Cruz, 4.NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 5.Sapienza Universita Di Roma, 6.MIT, Boston, 7.Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale, Università di Bologna, Forlì, 8.Tel Aviv University, 9.Department of Physics, University of Idaho, 10.U.S. Geological Survey, 11.Groupe de Spectrométrie Moléculaire et Atmosphérique UMR CNRS 7331, Université de Reims Champagne Ardenne, 12.Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, 13.Department of Planetary Sciences, University of Arizona, 14.Planetary Science Institute, 15.Université Grenoble Alpes)

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