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About the project

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This project was born on June 20th, 2021. It is an arbitrary long-term goal I have set for myself (although other people are welcome to help out, of course!) to improve the coverage of mensae on Mars. It is a sad fact that the mensae will probably never have enough information about them to reach featured article status, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be improved! The overarching goal of this project is to get all of the mensae to GA-class.

Goals

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Core Goals Facilitatory Goals
  1. Promote all notable mensae to Stub-class (0/3)
    1. I.e. create articles for missing mensae
  2. Promote all mensae to Start-class (7/11)
  3. Promote all mensae to C-class (2/11)
  4. Promote all mensae to B-class (2/11)
  5. Promote all mensae to GA-class (1/11)
  6. Promote all mensae to FA-class (0/11)
    • This is probably not possible, and I will likely turn my attention to other geological features before even getting close to reaching this mark.
  7. Turn the Martian mensae into a Featured Topic (0/1)
  1. Add scholarly information about the mensae published after 2010 (2/11)
    • In cases where a rover is in the area, add all information since the rover's arrival.
    • Reason for 2010 deadline is because sometimes our understanding of the mensae has changed, and if we go back far enough we might start accidentally adding outdated information.
  2. Intersperse images with text in an aesthetic way (2/11)
  3. Create a featured image relevant to the project (0/1)
  4. Create an article List of Mensae on Mars (0/1)
    • Make it a Featured List (0/1)
  5. Finish the mensae map template (1/1)

Project status

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 Cydonia MensaeNepenthes MensaeNilosyrtis MensaeProtonilus Mensae
  Interactive image map of the global topography of Mars, overlain with locations of Martian mensae. Coloring of the base map indicates relative elevations, based on data from the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter on NASA's Mars Global Surveyor. Whites and browns indicate the highest elevations (+12 to +8 km); followed by pinks and reds (+8 to +3 km); yellow is 0 km; greens and blues are lower elevations (down to −8 km). Axes are latitude and longitude; Polar regions are noted.
(  No Article •   Stub-class •   Start-class •   C-class •   B-class •   A-class •   GA-class •   FA-class)



  • Abalos Mensa
    • Article status: C-class
    • Information added: N/A
    • Images added: Not yet
    • Named: 2006
  • Aeolis Mensae
    • Article status: Start-class
    • Information added: >=2010 [Done!]
    • Images added: Yes [Done!]
    • Named: 1976
  • Ausonia Mensa
    • Article status: Stub-class
    • Information added: N/A
      • There are only 8 papers ever published even mentioning Ausonia Mensa, even in passing.
      • Thus this should absolutely be merged into the List of Mensae on Mars.
    • Images added: Not yet
    • Named: 1991
  • Capri Mensa
    • Article status: Start-class
    • Information added: N/A
      • This has a sufficient amount of sources :)
      • Current article spends a long time talking about the Valles Marineres Canyon System, but that should really happen on the page of the canyon system itself.
    • Images added: Not yet
    • Named: 2003
  • Deuteronilus Mensae
    • Article status: Stub-class
    • Information added: N/A
      • Sufficiently notable
    • Images added: Not yet
    • Named: 1973
  • Ganges Mensa
    • Article status: GA-class
    • Information added: Assumed complete
      • (Ganges Mensa was GA before I started this project, I do not wish to ruin it inadvertently)
    • Images added: Assumed complete
    • Named: 2006
  • Hebes Mensa
    • Article status: Start-class
    • Information added: >=2011
      • Sufficiently notable
    • Images added: Not yet
    • Named: 1982
  • Nepenthes Mensae
    • Article status: Stub-class
    • Information added: N/A
      • Sufficiently notable
    • Images added: Not yet
    • Named: 1976
  • Nilosyrtis Mensae
    • Article status: Start-class
    • Information added: N/A
      • Sufficiently notable
    • Images added: Not yet
    • Named: 1973
  • Protonilus Mensae
    • Article status: Start-class
    • Information added: N/A
      • Sufficiently notable
    • Images added: Not yet
    • Named: 1973
  • Sacra Mensa
    • Article status: Stub-class
    • Information added: N/A
      • Sufficiently notable
    • Images added: Not yet
    • Named: 1988

Mensae without articles

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Juventae Mensa, Nia Mensa[1]

Many more; there are 38 in total (oh god).[2]

I suspect (and hope) most of these won’t need articles, and can just have a blurb in the list of mensae on mars.

I have tried to assess notability below; if more than or equal to 5 pages of google scholar articles, I labeled it notable. Of course, content matters, and so it may be that something is not notable after all, or is notable when I thought it wasn’t.

1976

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  • Cydonia Mensae
    • Notability: 10 google scholar pages
    • Notable

1982

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  • Candor Mensa
    • Notability: 10 google scholar pages
    • Notable

1985

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  • Nilus Mensae
    • Notability: 2 google scholar pages
    • Not Notable
  • Zephyria Mensae
    • Notability: 1 google scholar article
    • Not Notable
  • Baetis Mensa
    • Noability: 2 google scholar pages
    • Not Notable

1988

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  • Labeatis Mensa
    • Notability: 2 google scholar pages
    • Not Notable
  • Lunae Mensa
    • Notability: 6 google scholar articles
    • Not Notable
  • Tempe Mensa
    • Notability: 1 google scholar article
    • Not Notable
  • Nilokeras Mensae
    • Notability: 7 google scholar articles
    • Not Notable

1991

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  • Ascraeus Mensa
    • Notability: 3 google scholar articles (Articles, not pages)
    • Not Notable

1994

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  • Ceti Mensa
    • Notability: 5 pages of google scholar articles
    • Notable

2000

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  • Acidalia Mensa
    • Notability: 4 pages of google scholar articles
    • Not Notable

2003

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  • Amazonis Mensa
    • Notability: 2 pages of google scholar articles
    • Not Notable
  • Eos Mensa:
    • Notability: 2 pages of google scholar articles
    • Not Notable

2006

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  • Tenuis Mensa
    • Notability: 3 pages of google scholar articles
    • Not Notable
  • Australe Mensa
    • Notability: 3 pages of google scholar articles
    • Not Notable
  • Olympia Mensae
    • Notability: 2 pages of google scholar articles
    • Not Notable

2013

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  • Ophir Mensa
    • Notability: 2 pages of google scholar articles
    • Not Notable

2015

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  • Nia Mensa
    • Notability: 2 pages of google scholar articles
    • Not Notable
  • Juventae Mensa
    • Notability: 6 google scholar articles
    • Not Notable
  • Melas Mensa
    • Notability: 6 google scholar articles
    • Not Notable
  • Ius Mensa
    • Notability: 4 google scholar articles
    • Not Notable
  • Coprates Mensa
    • Notability: 6 google scholar articles
    • Not Notable

2017

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  • Chrysas Mensa
    • Notability: 2 google scholar articles
    • Not Notable

2020

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  • Izola Mensa
    • Notability: 1 google scholar article
    • Not Notable

2021

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  • Peneus Mensa
    • Notability: no google scholar articles
    • Not Notable
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CTX Images[3]

HiRISE Images[4]

Base Map

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Reading List

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In this section I will cite some papers that I believe have broad applicability to the mensae.

This paper investigates ancient river deltas at the mensae.[5]

References

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  1. ^ "Names Approved for Two Mensae on Mars".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ "Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature List of Mensae".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ "Search CTX Images".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ^ "HiRISE".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ Hauber, E.; Platz, T.; Reiss, D.; Deit, L. Le; Kleinhans, M. G.; Marra, W. A.; Haas, T. de; Carbonneau, P. (2013). "Asynchronous formation of Hesperian and Amazonian-aged deltas on Mars and implications for climate". Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. 118 (7): 1529–1544. doi:10.1002/jgre.20107. ISSN 2169-9100.
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