Marspedia:Topic List

This is a list of topics that we'd like to be fully covered with articles on the wiki.

Introductory Content

• Welcome to Marspedia page with prominent link on main page.
• Video (30 second Welcome to Marspedia)
• How you can help

Mars

• The Planet (overview, scientific details, interesting features & locations, the Moons, etc.)
• History of Mars on Earth (why is it called Mars, theories about it, etc.)

Remote Exploration of Mars

• Orbiters
  • Mission pages for every robotic mission, including all failed attempts. (feel free to borrow from MarsNews.com which James Burk wrote all of, but much is likely out of date)
  • Chandrayaan
• Landers / Rovers
  • Pathfinder
  • Spirit
  • Opportunity
  • Curiosity
  • Mars 2020
  • Mars Express: Beagle 2
• Future Missions: Mars Sample Return, ExoMars, Red Dragon, Big Falcon Rocket (BFR)

Organizations with Mars missions (Funded, Flown or already planned)

• NASA
• ESA
• ISRO
• Roscosmos
• SpaceX

Human Exploration of Mars

• Current Plans & concepts: Mars Direct, NASA Design Reference Mission, Caltech missions, Mars One, SpaceX, etc.
• History of plans - David S. F. Portree has done a lot of work in this area and James has his book. You can also pull up his Romance to Reality site which is in archive.org.
• Technologies needed: propulsion (chemical, nuclear, ion, VASIMR, etc.), ISRU, space suits, lander concepts

Permanent Settlement

Mars Foundation designs: Hillside Settlement, One way mission, Plains Settlement

• Technologies needed: 3-D Printing using in-situ materials, use of lava tubes, etc.
• Fictional Portrayals of Mars Settlement
  • Kim Stanley Robinson: Article about Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars and what they did.
    • Based on Proceedings of Case for Mars #2 & #3. (Bruce has copies of these.)
  • Also Ben Bova, Geoffrey Landis, Robert Zubrin, Gregory Benford, Paul McAuley (Quiet War, Gardens of the Sun).
  • Older fiction: Heinlein, Clarke, etc.
  • Potential issues/challenges raised in Mars fiction (political/economic relationship with Earth, how government/economics might be affected by conditions on Mars, vulnerability of domed settlements, effects of microgravity on the human body, etc.)
• Commerce (including import/export, etc.)
  • Potential Martian industries and exports
  • Potential as base for asteroid mining ventures
    • Provide lodging, resupply, and other services to miners
    • Infrastructure
  • Potential as base for exploring the outer Solar system
• Other concepts.

Terraforming

• What is Terraforming
• How might you Terraform Mars: plans & concepts
• First 100 year plan / schedule
• Martin Fogg's pages - contact him

Space Law

• Mars-specific.
• Outer Space Treaty / Moon Treaty / etc.
• Look into the papers available online.

AstroSociology

• Human Factors Research
• 2007 ISDC track - Jim Paas(?)

Miscellaneous Topics

• Whatever you want to write about Mars!