Wikipedia:WikiProject Mars Spacecraft

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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Mars Spacecraft. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

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Title

WikiProject: Mars Spacecraft

Scope

In order to help the many articles on Martian Spacecraft in existance, this project has been created. We will help to ensure that all articles on Martian Spacecraft here on Wikipedia have any information that might be needed, and be organized in such a way so as to make it easy for the user to find them.

Goals

1. To improve every article so as not to be a stub on Martian Spacecraft
2. To improve every article on a successful mission on Martian spacecraft to at least a Good Article Status
3. To identify any articles that need to be added, and quickly do so.

Parentage

This WikiProject is decended from Unmanned Space missions

Similar WikiProjects

Similar WikiProjects are:

• Unmanned space missions
• Martian Geography

Related Wikiportals

• Portal:Mars
• Portal:Spaceflight

Participants

Add your name to the list here.

1. Tuvas (talk • contribs)
2. Jeffreythane (talk • contribs)
3. GW_Simulations_{|User Page | Talk | Contribs | E-mail}
4. Koeppen (talk • contribs)
5. Mlm42 (talk • contribs)
6. General Eisenhower (talk • contribs) • (at war or at peace)
7. Akradecki (talk • contribs) Started pages for Mars 1969A and B failed missions
8. Alastor Moody (talk • contribs)
9. Aces_lead (talk • contribs)

Structure

In general,follow the model of the Mars Reconaissance Orbiter homepage.

An article should contain the following sections:

1. History of the spacecraft-> This can include launch issues, end of life of the spacecraft, funding issues, major milestones (Launch, Orbit, landing, major discoveries), etc.
2. What was learned from the mission. For newer and future missions, this may not be included.
3. Description of scientific instruments
4. Description of the spacecraft
5. See Also section
6. Footnote section
7. Other external references

Pages to be worked on

These are some pages that are needing a bit of work. They are listed according to what the goal of the formatting is.

Featured Articles

• Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
• Mars Exploration Rover
• Spirit rover
• Opportunity rover

Good Articles

Note, some of these articles cannot become GA's due to their current actions, still, we should improve them to the quality of a GA. For more information, see Good Articles

• CRISM
• HiRISE
• Phoenix Lander
• Mars Global Surveyor
• Mars Express Orbiter
• Mars Pathfinder

Remove Stub

• Mars Odyssey
• Thermal Emission Spectrometer

Create Page

• Shallow Subsurface Radar (SHARAD)
• Mars Science and Telecommunications Orbiter See http://www.marstoday.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=20324

Templates

Infoboxes

Stub Templates

• {{Mars-stub}}
• {{Mars spacecraft-stub}}
• {{spacecraft-stub}}
• {{MarsCrater-stub}}

User Templates

• {{User WP Mars Spacecraft}}

Article Talk Page

• {{Mars Spacecraft- Project}}

Navigation Boxes

• {{NASA Mars spacecraft}}

edit NASA Mars Spacecraft Missions
Flybys: Mariner 4 | Mariner 6 | Mariner 7
Orbiters: Mariner 9 | Viking 1 | Viking 2 | Mars Global Surveyor | Mars Odyssey | Mars Express Orbiter | Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
Landers and Rovers: Viking 1 | Viking 2 | Mars Pathfinder | Spirit rover | Opportunity rover
Future: Phoenix Scout | Mars Science Laboratory | Mars 2011 | Astrobiology Field Laboratory
See also: Mars | Exploration of Mars | Colonization of Mars

• {{Mars spacecraft}}

v • d • e  Mars Spacecraft Missions
Flybys: Mariner 4 | Mariner 6 | Mariner 7 | Mars 4
Orbiters: Mariner 9 | Mars 2 | Mars 3 | Mars 5 | Mars 6 | Viking 1 | Viking 2 | Phobos 2 | Mars Global Surveyor | Mars Odyssey | Mars Express Orbiter | Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
Landers and Rovers: Mars 3 | Viking 1 | Viking 2 | Mars Pathfinder | Spirit rover | Opportunity rover
Future: Phoenix Scout (2007) | Mars Science Laboratory (2009) | Phobos-Grunt (2009) | Mars 2011 | ExoMars (2013) | Astrobiology Field Laboratory (2016?)
See also: Mars | Exploration of Mars | Colonization of Mars

• {{Failed Mars Missions}}

edit Failed & Cancelled missions to the Planet Mars
Failed:	Marsnik program | Sputnik 22 | Mars 1 | Sputnik 24 | Mariner 3 | Zond 2 | Mars 1969A | Mars 1969B | Mariner 8 | Cosmos 419 | Mars 6 | Mars 7 | Phobos 1 | Mars Observer | Mars 96 | Nozomi | Mars Climate Orbiter | Mars Polar Lander | Deep Space 2 | Beagle 2
Cancelled:	Voyager | Mars Surveyor 2001 Lander | NetLander | Mars Telecommunications Orbiter

Wikipedia articles on Mars Spacecraft

• Exploration of Mars

New Wikipedia articles related to Mars Spacecraft

Please feel free to list your new Mars Spacecraft-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.

Did you know?

• CRISM appeared on 17 June 2006

Good Articles

• Mars Reconaissance Orbiter

Peer review

Featured articles

Featured article candidates

• Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Featured pictures

• Mars, the red planet at Mars (planet), by NASA
• Martian sunset at Gusev crater at Mars, by NASA

Featured picture candidates

References

• NASA MARS website