Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Astronomy/Mars task force/Archive 5

Martian soil needs a fix.
Martian_soil currently says:


 * Water contents of Martian regolith range from <2% by weight to more than ?.

I assume that that question mark is wrong? -- 189.122.52.73 (talk) 09:39, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

Heat Shield Rock listed at Requested moves
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Earth-Mars close approaches
I've done a pretty exhaustive search today, and am not finding on Wikipedia any list of the various "close approach" distances for Earth-Mars at their various conjunctions in the past and projected out in the future. I know such data exists in the literature outside of Wikipedia. (e.g., 46800000000 mi in 2016 but only 35800000000 mi in 2018; and even closer than that in 2003 nearer to  33900000000 mi in 2003.)

Am I just missing it? Or is that information that noone has yet got verifiably incorporated into the "encylopedia of human knowledge" like has been done for asteroid close approaches? (where, even a pointer to one source for the minor planet data gets its own article section.

Cheers. N2e (talk) 12:54, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

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Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
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List of potential landing sites for human landings / possible long-term habitation on Mars. Let's improve these articles.
SPACEX STARSHIP LANDING SITES ON MARS. M. Golombek1, N. Williams1, P. Wooster2, A. McEwen3, N. Putzig4, A. Bramson5, J. Head6, J. Heldmann7, M. Marinova8, and D. Beaty1, 1 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 2 SpaceX, Hawthorne, CA, 3 University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 4 Planetary Science Institute, Lakewood, CO, 5 Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN, 6 Brown University, Providence, RI, 7 NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, 8 M3 Interplanetary, Santa Monica, CA.

52nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference 2021 (LPI Contrib. No. 2548)

- https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2021/pdf/2420.pdf -

This lists half a dozen or so attractive landing sites for human landings on Mars.

It's time to do what we can to improve articles about these locations.

thx - 2804:14D:5C59:8833:C5BC:35C8:2A3E:EAB4 (talk) 07:15, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Merge proposal
I have proposed to merge Phobos and Deimos in fiction to Mars in fiction. Please join the discussion at Talk:Mars in fiction Cambalachero (talk) 13:56, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

Evaluation
This article is well written and provides knowledge to the casual reader. Includes plenty of relevant information and links of other topics but is not too in-depth of the planet Mars. This article could have a rating of "Start" to a potential "C".

Timmy Thyme (talk) 15:37, 15 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Which article? Cambalachero (talk) 16:11, 15 September 2022 (UTC)

GAR of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
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