Mars Society Channel - YouTube
The Mars Society Channel on YouTube contains approximately 500 videos of plenary and technical presentations made at the annual International Mars Society Conventions from 2010 to 2018. It also includes a number of crew videos taken at MDRS (Mars Desert Research Station) and prepared as a summary of crew activities at the end of their two week stay in Utah. There are also videos of selected Mars Society sponsored projects such as the MarsVR Program.
To correlate the information in the Mars Society Channel of YouTube to the category tree chosen for Marspedia. We have placed #tag information in the description information that appears below the title of each video. Each video is tagged with 1-3 labels that appear in blue.
The relationship between the Marspedia categories and the #tags used in the video description field in the Mars Society Channel of YouTube is shown in the table below:
| Marspedia Specific Hierarchy | Mars Society YouTube #Categories | No. YouTube Videos |
| • I. Mars Planetary Science | #MarsPlanetaryScience | 11 |
| ⁃ Astronomy | #MarsAstronomy | 4 |
| ⁃ Orbit | #MarsOrbit | 3 |
| ⁃ Moons - Natural Satellites | #MarsMoons | 2 |
| ⁃ Mars-Crossing Asteroids | #MarsCrossingAsteroids | 0 |
| ⁃ Time Measures | #MarsTimeMeasures | 0 |
| ⁃ Aerography (geography) | #MarsAerography | 7 |
| ⁃ Mars Atlas | #MarsAtlas | 0 |
| ⁃ Topography | #MarsTopography | 1 |
| ⁃ Atmospheric Sciences | #MarsAtmosphericScience | 9 |
| ⁃ Gravimetry | #MarsGravimetry | 0 |
| ⁃ Surface Spectroscopy | #MarsSurfaceSpectroscopy | 0 |
| ⁃ Areology (geology) | #MarsAreology | 20 |
| ⁃ Geologic Processes | #MarsGeologicProcesses | 3 |
| ⁃ Areomorphology (landforms) | #MarsAreomorphology | 1 |
| ⁃ Mineralogy | #MarsMinerology | 2 |
| ⁃ Hydrology | #MarsHydrology | 21 |
| ⁃ Mars Meteorites | #MarsMeteorites | 2 |
| Marspedia Specific Hierarchy | Mars Society YouTube #Categories | No. YouTube Videos |
| • II. Mars Spacecraft/Robotic Missions | #MarsSpacecraftRoboticMissions | 13 |
| ⁃ Mission Objectives | #MarsMissionObjectives | 8 |
| ⁃ Search for Life | #MarsSearchForLife | 36 |
| ⁃ Spaceflight Science | #MarsSpaceflightScience | 0 |
| ⁃ Resource Mapping | #MarsResourceMapping | 1 |
| ⁃ Mission Planning (and engineering) | #MarsMissionPlanning | 21 |
| ⁃ Exploration Concepts | #MarsExplorationConcepts | 2 |
| ⁃ Orbital Mechanics | #MarsOrbitalMechanics | 1 |
| ⁃ Propulsion | #MarsPropulsion | 29 |
| ⁃ Power Systems | #MarsPowerSystems | 4 |
| ⁃ Communication | #MarsCommunication | 10 |
| ⁃ Instruments (sensors, …) | #MarsInstruments | 4 |
| ⁃ Emerging Technologies | #MarsEmergingTechnologies | 6 |
| ⁃ Exploration Missions | #MarsExplorationMissions | 4 |
| ⁃ Orbital Missions | #MarsOrbitalMissions | 3 |
| ⁃ Lander Missions | #MarsLanderMissions | 14 |
| ⁃ Robotic Exploration | #MarsRoboticExploration | 61 |
| Marspedia Specific Hierarchy | Mars Society YouTube #Categories | No. YouTube Videos |
| • III. Mars Human Exploration | #MarsHumanExploration | 37 |
| ⁃ Human Mission Architecture | #MarsHumanMissionArchitecture | 68 |
| ⁃ Exploration Transport Systems | #MarsExplorationTransportSystems | 9 |
| ⁃ Interplanetary Vehicles | #MarsInterplanetaryVehicles | 5 |
| ⁃ Descent Vehicles | #MarsDescentVehicles | 8 |
| ⁃ Ascent Vehicles | #MarsAscentVehicles | 3 |
| ⁃ Surface Vehicular Activities | #MarsSurfaceVehicularActivities | 1 |
| ⁃ EVA Suits | #MarsEVASuits | 7 |
| ⁃ Funding | #MarsFunding | 28 |
| ⁃ Training | #MarsTraining | 12 |
| ⁃ Human Factors (and crew considerations) | #MarsHumanFactors | 22 |
| ⁃ Medicine | #MarsMedicine | 14 |
| ⁃ In-situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) | #MarsInSituResourceUtilization | 15 |
| ⁃ Analog Stations | #MarsAnalogStations | 13 |
| ⁃ MDRS | #MarsMDRS | 64 |
| ⁃ FMARS | #MarsFMARS | 8 |
| ⁃ HI-SEAS | #MarsHISEAS | 3 |
| ⁃ Space Stations (Mars orbital) | #MarsOrbitalSpaceStations | 0 |
| ⁃ Moon Stations (Phobos, Deimos) | #MarsMoonStations | 2 |
