NAI
Steven Vance
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Current Projects
- Inv 1 - Geochemical Reactor: Energy Production at Water-Rock Interfaces — 2016 NAI
- Inv 3 – Planetary Disequilibria: Characterizing Ocean Worlds and Implications for Habitability — 2015 NAI
- Inv 1 - Geochemical Reactor: Energy Production at Water-Rock Interfaces — 2015 NAI
- Astrobiology of Icy Worlds — 2014 NAI
- Investigation 1: Habitability of Icy Worlds — 2013 NAI
- Path to Flight — 2012 NAI
- Habitability of Icy Worlds — 2012 NAI
- Habitability of Icy Worlds — 2011 NAI
- Path to Flight — 2011 NAI
- Habitability of Icy Worlds — 2010 NAI
- Path to Flight — 2010 NAI
- Astrobiology of Icy Worlds — 2009 NAI
- First-Stage Biofilm Formation Under Extreme Conditions in Ice — 2004 NAI
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NAI Project Collaborators
- Project collaborators as reported by the latest NAI Annual Report.
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Publications
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Sohl, F., Choukroun, M., Kargel, J., Kimura, J., Pappalardo, R., Vance, S., & Zolotov, M. (2010). Subsurface Water Oceans on Icy Satellites: Chemical Composition and Exchange Processes. Space Sci Rev, 153(1-4), 485–510. doi:10.1007/s11214-010-9646-y
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Vance, S., & Michael Brown, J. (2010). Sound velocities and thermodynamic properties of water to 700 MPa and −10 to 100 °C. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 127(1), 174. doi:10.1121/1.3257223
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Vance, S., & Michael Brown, J. (2013). Thermodynamic properties of aqueous MgSO4 to 800MPa at temperatures from −20 to 100°C and concentrations to 2.5molkg−1 from sound speeds, with applications to icy world oceans. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 110, 176–189. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2013.01.040
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Vance, S., Christensen, L. E., Webster, C. R., & Sung, K. (2011). Volatile organic sulfur compounds as biomarkers complementary to methane: Infrared absorption spectroscopy of CH3SH enables insitu measurements on Earth and Mars. Planetary and Space Science, 59(2-3), 299–303. doi:10.1016/j.pss.2010.08.023
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- Mumma, M., Des Marais, D.J., Baross, J., Sherwood Lollar, B., Hand, K., Villanueva, G., House, C., Ferry, G., McCollom, T., Sotin, C., Goldman, S., Vance, S. & Painter, T. (2010). The astrobiology of Mars: Methane and other candidate biomarker gases, and related interdisciplinary studies on Earth and Mars [abstract 5590]. Astrobiology Science Conference 2010. See Project
- Vance, S. & Goodman, J. (2009). Oceanography of an Ice-Covered Moon [Book Chapter]. Europa. Arizona University Press. See Project
- Vance, S., Goff-Pochat, N. & Collins, G.C. (Aug 2009). Thermal Weathering and Erosion on Planetary Surfaces. Asia Oceania Geosciences Symposium. Singapore. See Project
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Phone:
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Email:
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Discipline
Geophysics, thermodynamics
