Good_to_know

You tried the MSP application and liked it very much? You want to contribute to the project but dont know much about Mars or terraforming? this page is for you. Here is a list of "must-read" documents and some additional nice-to-have-seens.

1. Lets learn something about Mars:
   • Mars in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars
   • GoogleEarth application has an option for Mars viewing and provide a lot of information http://earth.google.co.uk/
2. current Mars missions
   • http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Mars_Express "Mars Express"
   • http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/ "Mars Odyssey", "Mars Exploration Rovers", "Mars Express", "Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter", "Mars Science Laboratory", "MAVEN"
3. Lets learn something about Terraforming:
   • Why colonizing Mars? http://www.redcolony.com/features.php?name=whycolonizemars
   • Terraforming Mars in wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming_of_Mars
   • http://phl.upr.edu/software extensive software list from the planetary habitability laboratory, university of puerto rico at arecibo
4. Practical Terraforming solution:
   • book: "The case for Mars" of Robert Zubrin
   • http://marshome.org
   • http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~mfogg/biblio.htm bibliography of non-fictional terraforming literature
   • http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~mfogg/links.htm weblinks about terraforming
5. Further reading:
   • scifi books: "Mars trilogy" of Kim Stanley Robinson, RGB Mars = Red, Green & Blue Mars
   • scifi book: "Moving Mars" by Greg Bear
   • scifi books: "Mars" and "Return to Mars" by Ben Bova
   • scifi book: "Rainbow Mars" by Larry Niven
   • scifi book: "Accelerando" by Charles Stross, http://manybooks.net/titles/strosscother05accelerando-txt.html
   • check out Mars Simulation project webpage Links
6. Mars related video
   • http://symphonyofscience.com/downloads.html "The Case for Mars" song
   • http://mars.nasa.gov/multimedia/videoarchive/ NASA's Mars video archive