Session 9. Mars Surface I

Oral, Chairs: E. R. Kraal and R. C. Quinn, Wednesday, September 3, 2003, 10:30am-12:00noon, DeAnza III

9.01 Meteoritic nickel at the surface of Mars?

A. S. Yen (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology)

9.02 Comparison of Secondary Crater Production by Martian and Lunar Impact Craters

N. G. Barlow (Northern Arizona University)

9.03 Mars Low-Latitude Neutron Distribution: Possible Remnant Near-Surface Water Ice

B.M. Jakosky, M.T. Mellon, S. Varnes (Univ. of Colorado), W. Feldman (LANL), W. Boynton (Univ. of Arizona), R.M. Haberle (NASA/Ames)

9.04 Segregated Ice in the Martian Regolith

A. Zent (NASA Ames Research Center)

9.05 Laboratory studies of the behavior of water under martian atmospheric conditions

D. W. G. Sears, C. B. Farmer, M. S. Kareev, S. R. Moore (Arkansas-Oklahoma Center for Space and Planetary Sciences)

9.06 Modeling Shoreline Evolution on Mars

E. R. Kraal, E. I. Ashpaug (UC - Santa Cruz), R. D. Lorenz (Lunar and Planetary Laboratory)

9.07 Ground-based Mars observations with 0.03 arcsec resolution: 4-station radar interferometry

A. F. C. Haldemann, K. W. Larsen, R. F. Jurgens, M. A. Slade, M. P. Golombek (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology), R. E. Arvidson (Washington Univ., St. Louis)

9.08 Visible Color Properties of Mars at Sub-100 m Resolutions from Mars Odyssey THEMIS/VIS

J. F. Bell III, T.H. McConnochie (Cornell), M.J. Wolff (SSI), D. Savransky, B. Stiglitz (Cornell), M. Malin (MSSS), P.R. Christensen, G.L. Mehall, L.L. Cherednik, K.C. Bender (ASU), THEMIS Science Team

9.09 Organic chemical decomposition in the Atacama Desert and on the surface of Mars: A comparison of potential reaction mechanisms

R.C. Quinn (SETI Institute, NASA Ames), F.J. Grunthaner (JPL), C.L. Taylor (SETI Institute, NASA Ames), A.P. Zent, C.P. McKay (NASA Ames), B. Gomez-Silva (Universidad de Antofagasta, Chile), J.L. Bada (U.C. San Diego)