Mars Prospective Energy and Material Resources - Badescu, Viorel; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2009)
1 -- Power System Options for Mars Surface Exploration: Past, Present and Future -- 2 -- Available Solar Energy and Weather Forecasting on Mars Surface -- 3 -- Weather Influence on PV Solar Cells Operation on Mars -- 4 -- Electric Power Generation on Mars Using Photovoltaic Helium Balloons -- 5 -- Weather Influence on Solar Thermal Power Plants Operation on Mars -- 6 -- Fuel Cell Power System Options for Mars Surface Mission Elements -- 7 -- The Evolution of Nuclear Power Generation for Mars -- 8 -- Distributed Power Sources for Mars -- 9 -- Advanced Nuclear Compact Structures for Power Generation on Mars -- 10 -- New Solutions for Nuclear Energy and Flights on Mars -- 11 -- Geothermal Energy on Mars -- 12 -- Comparative Analysis of Power System Architectures: The Case of Human Mars Surface Missions -- 13 -- Economics of Energy on Mars -- 14 -- Tumbleweed: A New Paradigm for Surveying the Surface of Mars for In-situ Resources -- 15 -- Drilling and Excavation for Construction and In-Situ Resource Utilization -- 16 -- In Situ Utilization of Indigenous Resources -- 17 -- Available Resources and Energy Sources from Mars Rock and Soil -- 18 -- On-Site Resources Availability for Space Agriculture on Mars -- 19 -- Utilization of Regolith for Manufacturing Construction Material on Mars -- 20 -- Perspectives on the Utilization of Martian Iron and Carbon Dioxide -- 21 -- Mars Aqueous Processing System -- 22 -- Fundamentals of Human Physical Growth on Mars -- 23 -- Artificial Environments on Mars -- 24 -- Self-sustaining Martian Colonies Utilizing the North Polar Ice Cap and the Atmosphere -- 25 -- Mars Climate Engineering Using Orbiting Solar Reflectors -- 26 -- Ecopoiesis and Liquid Water Transportation on Mars.
Keywords: Energy systems; Space sciences; Planetology; Aerospace engineering; Astronautics; Observations, Astronomical; Astronomy-Observations.; Energy; Energy Systems; Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics).; Planetology; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques; Energy, general