MARS BIBLE — PRIMARY SOURCES
Official Mars Resources and Mission Status
A gateway to institutional sources for checking real mission status, scientific data and Mars exploration programmes.
Follow missions at the authoritative source
Mission schedules, status and architectures change. Rather than pretending to maintain a “live” page that can quickly become stale, this hub points to the responsible agencies, which remain the reference for current operational status.
NASA Science — MarsMissions, news, data and Mars exploration status.
NASA Mars Exploration ProgramProgramme, science goals, missions and technologies.
NASA/JPL — MarsMars missions led or supported by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
ESA — Mars ExpressEurope's long-running Mars orbiter.
ESA — ExoMarsTrace Gas Orbiter and Rosalind Franklin mission.
How to use these sources
- Mission status: prefer the agency or mission page.
- Engineering value: trace claims to primary documentation, reports, NTRS records, papers or standards where possible.
- News: distinguish an announcement, a study, an approved mission and a demonstrated capability.
- Delta-Sierra scenario: do not confuse it with an official NASA, ESA or industrial architecture.
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Institutional links checked on 17 August 2026. For an active mission, the responsible agency page remains the source of truth.
Entry, descent and landing (EDL)
- Mars entry, descent and landing: understanding the full EDL chain
- Mars atmospheric entry: heat shield, entry corridor and guidance
- Mars parachutes and supersonic retropropulsion: where architecture changes
- Terrain-relative navigation, hazards and Mars landing-site selection
- Terminal descent, engine plumes and the Mars landing zone
- Human Mars lander: the EDL problem above 20 tonnes
Survive: ECLSS, health and resilience
- Mars habitat ECLSS: complete architecture of survival loops
- Mars habitat air: oxygen, CO₂, humidity and contaminants
- Mars water: 98% recovery, storage, quality and make-up
- Fire, depressurization and refuge: surviving habitat emergencies
- Mars radiation: shielding, dose and storm shelter
- Spacesuits, EVA and dust: working outside without contaminating the base
- Food, crops and medicine: biological and medical autonomy on Mars
- Psychology, fatigue and multiple failures: human resilience of a Mars base
Operations, industry, reliability and team
- Choosing a site and deploying a Mars base
- Mars surface mobility, robotics and logistics
- Mars ISRU industry, construction and local manufacturing
- Reliability, redundancy and common causes in a Mars base
- Durability, tightness, electronics and FDIR on Mars
- Mars maintenance, spares, qualification and configuration
- Crew operations, procedures and Earth-Mars communications
- Human factors, anomalies and training for a Mars team