Interdisciplinary Research in Terraforming Mars: State of the Profession and Programmatics

Tara Ruttley,Vladimir Airapetian,Scott Hubbard,Neysa Call,James Green,Barry Kellett,Jeffery Hollingsworth,Chuanfei Dong,Ruth Bamford,Douglas Ming,Melinda Kahre,Raymond Wheeler

doi:10.3847/25c2cfeb.0408ed8f

Abstract

Interdisciplinary Research in Terraforming Mars: State of the Profession and Programmatics

Highlights

Introduction Humans are terraforming theEarth and when they arrive at Mars their influence will begin that process on the red planet
Expecting that some of these missions will be included in the Decadal, an extremely important analysis should determine how these missions could be augmented with critical measurements to support other disciplinary work that would go into supporting human exploration of Mars
A series of key measurements must exist that are fed into the Mars Space Weather and Atmosphere Modeling (MSWAM) and MCMS system that include at least the following: 1) solar observations; 2) Mars L1 solar wind observations; 3) low-altitude orbiter observations monitoring dynamical phenomena rapidly evolving in space and time; and 4) planet-wide ground-based magnetometers and seismic instruments

Summary

Introduction

Introduction Humans are terraforming theEarth and when they arrive at Mars their influence will begin that process on the red planet. 37 white papers about Mars science missions have been submitted to the NAS in support of the Decadal development. Expecting that some of these missions will be included in the Decadal, an extremely important analysis should determine how these missions could be augmented with critical measurements to support other disciplinary work that would go into supporting human exploration of Mars.

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