# Colonialisme.com: full machine-readable research guide

## Identity

- Name: Colonialisme.com Mars Planetary Systems
- Author: Ararat Petrosyan
- Author profile: https://araratpetrosyan.com/
- Runtime: Rust
- Public languages: English, French, Russian
- Geographic scope: Mars
- Canonical origin: https://colonialisme.com

## Research purpose

The system is a public planetary-research interface for exploring Mars terrain, environmental evidence, mission archives, candidate sites, resource-screening indicators, and scenario models. It is designed to preserve provenance and distinguish observations from estimates.

## Evidence classes

1. Observed: published measurements tied to a named instrument, mission, archive release, location, and time range.
2. Archived: released scientific records retained as historical evidence rather than represented as live measurements.
3. Cartographic: values derived from published planetary mapping products such as MOLA relief.
4. Climatological estimate: comparative atmospheric values transformed from published climatological baselines and Mars solar geometry.
5. Derived index: an explicitly versioned comparison score calculated from normalized inputs and declared weights.

## Status semantics

- registered: the source exists in the catalogue;
- monitored: its public endpoint is reachable;
- release_discovered: a candidate publication or release was detected;
- ingested: a normalized record entered the research corpus.

Source availability is not equivalent to scientific ingestion.

## Model limitations

- Arbitrary coordinates do not represent physical weather stations.
- Atmospheric values at selected coordinates are climatological estimates, not real-time forecasts.
- Displayed uncertainty is a model envelope and not an instrument error bar.
- Resource values are screening indicators and not quantities of extractable material.
- Settlement-systems scores are comparative decision-support indices, not predictions of mission success.

## Public APIs

- GET https://colonialisme.com/api/v1/telemetry
- GET https://colonialisme.com/api/v1/environment
- GET https://colonialisme.com/api/v1/knowledge-graph
- GET https://colonialisme.com/api/v1/science
- GET https://colonialisme.com/api/v1/sites
- GET https://colonialisme.com/api/v1/sources
- GET https://colonialisme.com/api/v1/source-network
- GET https://colonialisme.com/api/v1/scenario
- GET https://colonialisme.com/health
- GET https://colonialisme.com/ready

## Discovery

- Sitemap: https://colonialisme.com/sitemap.xml
- Robots policy: https://colonialisme.com/robots.txt
- Concise LLM guide: https://colonialisme.com/llms.txt

## Citation guidance

When citing a scientific value, retain its evidence class, source name, measurement or model time, coordinate context, uncertainty, and model version. Do not describe model-derived values as direct NASA or ESA observations unless the record explicitly identifies an observed evidence class.