Needed Articles

This is the global collection of articles that are needed by Marspedia and shall be a guide for authors, who want to start new articles without knowing which direction to go. Articles with existing links may need expansion.

The Bootstrap lists offers an alternative path to lists of articles than need be upgraded.

Mars Planetary Science

• List of Mars Calendars
• Martian "Geomorphology". What processes have shaped Mars?
• What is the date on Mars? What year/season/month is it?
• Upper atmosphere chemical processes
• Reflectance and emission spectroscopy
• Mineral identification from satellite, balloon, and aircraft carried instruments
• Multispectral and thermal infrared imaging
• Subsurface water or ice deposits
• Surface ice at poles
• Organic compounds on Mars
• Magnetic field

Mars Spacecraft/Robotic Missions

• Utility of unmanned missions
• Scientific data (collection/transmission/interpretation)
• Follow the water strategy
• Subsurface search strategy
• On-site organic compound detection
• DNA/RNA analysis chips
• Spectrographic imagery
• Multispectral mineral identification
• Multimission timelines
• Mission sequences
• Current and planned instruments
• Orbital vs. lander vs. robotic exploration

• Solar mirrors
• DNA/RNA analysis chips
• Aeropositioning satellites (analagous to GPS)
• Miniaturized chemical/molecular identification systems
• Advanced sensing
• AI autonomy
• Hybrid machine enhanced biologics
• Exploration missions (list including chronology and instruments)
• Imagery
• Spectroscopy
• Lander mission atmospheric seasonal measurements
• Subsurface drilling and chemical analysis
• Degrees of autonomy
• Regolith sampling and mineral identification

Mars Human Exploration

• Reverse thrust rockets

• Aerology and minerology mapping

• Funding: International, national, and commercial
• Human factors in crew selection
• Physical fitness for exploration missions
• Cross training in skill sets
• Health effects of microgravity
• Psychological stressors in transit
• Medical training for exploration teams
• Medical equipment for exploration teams
• Search for life
• Exploration and science in simulated marssuits
• Long-duration missions
• Human factors studies

Mars Human Settlement

• Crop choices influenced by ability to thrive in Mars environments
• Will individual settlements establish their own societal rules?
• Who owns Mars?
• Increase in pressure needed to allow standing liquid pure water on surface
• Increase in surface temperature to partially melt polar ice caps

Mars Outreach

• Mars Society chapters
• Mars Society conferences
• MDRS crews
• Mars Society projects
• Mars Society goals
• Mars Foundation: About the organization
• Explore Mars
• Mars One
• Mars Journal

Mars Arts and Literature

• lists of Mars science fiction by plot-line focus
• List of plays
• List of documentaries
• List of TV Series
• List of computer games
• List of board games
• Accuracy of depiction of Mars in popular culture