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100 unusual facts about mars


1952 in the United States

March 22 – Wernher von Braun publishes the first in his series of articles entitled Man Will Conquer Space Soon!, including ideas for manned flights to Mars and the Moon.

A Very Potter Musical

Draco attempts to intimidate Harry by claiming that he will transfer to a prestigious wizarding academy on Mars called Pigfarts, but Hermione threatens him and forces him to back off.

Aban, Russia

The name Aban has been used for a crater on the planet Mars by the International Astronomical Union, although not specifically commemorating the village.

Acrobat Mission

In the year 2100, the Earth's environment is devastated by its inhabitants, who develop their space technology to live on Mars.

Aki, Kōchi

The name Aki has been used for a crater on the planet Mars by the International Astronomical Union, although not specifically commemorating the city.

Alex Deakin

In a number of segments during the show he gave reports on the type of weather that is experienced on Mars.

Alshard

In this world, Jupiter became a fixed star and the homeland of mankind is Mars instead of Earth.

Aquio River

It has a registered sister river on the Cydonia region of Mars, and the native people have always been very proud of this status.

Armored Core 2

Using these plans, Zio sends a research team to Mars to begin the Terraforming Project, which causes the Martian surface and atmosphere to approximate that of Earth.

Arranged marriage in the Indian subcontinent

Horoscope becomes a determining factor if one of the partners is Mângalik (lit., negatively influenced by Mars).

Assault on Dome 4

Intergalactic extremist Alex Windham (Bruce Campbell) has seized control of Dome 4, a scientific outpost on another planet, after escaping from a penal colony on Mars.

Beethoven quadrangle

Geologic evidence for the reconstruction of the evolutionary history of Mercury is less complete than for the Moon and Mars, for which orbiting spacecraft and landers have provided total or near-total coverage and high-resolution images.

Bot Colony

As Nakagawa’s robots will play a major role in the colonization of Mars, they need to achieve a high degree of autonomy.

Carroll Bierman

Gallahadion paid $72.40 on a $2 bet for winning the "Run for the Roses" in the colors of Ethel V. Mars, heiress to the Mars Candy fortune.

Chott

Although there are considerable differences between terrestrial and Martian geology, some features on Mars are also believed to be evaporite basins, and consequently share at least some features of chotts.

Chotts have also been studied because they are believed to be an Earth analogue to similar features on the planet Mars.

Cinq-Mars-la-Pile

Monument in honour of Robert H. Dunlap, General U.S. Marine who was killed in May 1931 while trying to rescue a woman in a landslide in the village.

Core rope memory

Core rope memory is a form of read-only memory (ROM) for computers, first used in the 1960s by early NASA Mars probes and then in the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) designed and programmed by the MIT Instrumentation Lab and built by Raytheon.

Cui Guicong

Also at Cui's suggestion, the sacrifices made to the gods of nine regions of heaven were downgraded to below those offered to the gods of the five planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn), as he pointed out that traditionally, the gods of the nine regions were considered lower in status to the gods of the five planets.

Deneb

The north pole of Mars points to the midpoint of the line connecting Deneb and the star Alderamin.

Devon Island

On July 16, 2013, the Canadian Space Agency assigned Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen to a secondment with the Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration of the University of Western Ontario at Haughton Crater in preparation for a potential future manned exploration of Mars, the Moon or the asteroids.

Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil

In 2147, two years after the events of Doom 3, the UAC detects a strange signal from one of its Martian satellites, and consequently sends a team in to investigate.

E.V.O.: Search for Eden

It is also revealed the crystals were introduced to Earth by an advanced civilization on Mars, who misguidedly wished to help Earth by speeding its evolution with the crystals.

Earth 2150

The objective of the game is to collect enough resources to build an Evacuation Ship, allowing the player's people to journey to Mars and escape the looming apocalypse - foreshadowing Earth 2160.

Emmanuel Liais

He made astronomical observations of Mars and in 1865 speculated that the dark albedo features were vegetation and not water (in fact, as we know today, they are neither).

Erroll Collins

It envisages a future world where there were populations on Mars and Venus as well as Earth flying around the solar system, and, inevitably, getting into wars.

Eve Tokimatsuri

During the events of the first Megazone 23 movie, she is in a struggle to maintain her autonomy from the military, who uses her likeness and voice as a propaganda tool in the war effort against the Dezalg - an offshoot of the human race descended from Mars colonists.

Frank Crossman

He is also active in the Mars Society, and is the co-editor with Robert Zubrin of two books of essays and articles related to exploring Mars.

Fumarole

The formation called Home Plate at Gusev Crater on Mars which was examined by the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Spirit is suspected to be the eroded remains of an ancient and extinct fumarole.

Gim Allon

In this continuity, Gim Allon was known as Leviathan and was from Mars instead of Earth.

Goshen, Connecticut

Asaph Hall, astronomer credited with discovering the moons of Mars

Grouser

They have also found use in such extreme environments as the deep sea floor, and the surfaces of the Moon and Mars.

Hidden Universe 3D

High-resolution images of space allow moviegoers to explore the earliest galaxies, watch stars being born in vivid clouds of gas and dust, tour the surface of Mars and witness images of distant celestial structures including stunning views of the Sun.

James C. Fletcher

During his first administration at NASA, Fletcher was responsible for beginning the Space Shuttle effort, as well as the Viking program that sent landers to Mars.

Jesus: Kyōfu no Bio Monster

Halley's Comet has been approaching Mars for quite some time, and the nations of Earth send a mission to investigate the Comet, as some form of life has been detected inside the gas of the comet.

Jetan

According to The Chessmen of Mars, Jetan was said to represent an ancient war between the Yellow and Black races of Barsoom.

Justice League Heroes

However, the League realize it has been upgraded; capable of breaking Earth's orbit, the missile has actually been fired at Mars in an effort to free the White Martians, who will invade Earth upon being rewoken.

K. R. Sridhar

The Laboratory was asked by NASA to undertake research into how life could be made sustainable on Mars.

Kohir

Kohir, Zaheerabad, Bidar, and neighbouring places brings to mind the Red Planet, and the land is usually red roads, red stones on streets with red houses made of red soil and black soil in agriculture land.

Kronid Lyubarsky

He was also working in the Soviet program of interplanetary exploration of Mars.

Lego Soccer Mania

After winning pieces for their own ship, the team goes into space, and finally faces off the Brickster and his soccer team on Mars.

Lindstrand Balloons

Per Lindstrand also independently operates a separate company, Lindstrand Technologies, which designs and builds gas balloons, innovative buildings, specialized aerospace equipment (including an advanced parachute for the Beagle 2 Mars-lander) and cutting edge inflatable structures including aircraft hangars, plugs for fire-containment for road tunnels and flood prevention systems.

Lise de Baissac

Her SOE dossier states "She was the inspiring-force for the groups in the Orne, and through her initiatives she inflicted heavy losses on the Germans thanks to anti-tyre devices scattered on the roads near Saint-Aubin-du-Désert, Saint-Mars-du-Désert, and even as far as Laval, Le Mans and Rennes. She also took part in armed attacks on enemy columns."

Liu Bocheng

The doctor was greatly moved by this display of courage and perseverance, and out of great respect he gave Liu the nickname "Chinese Mars".

Ludvík Souček

Souček builds a virtuous mixture of scientific fact and made up archeological discoveries in France, Iceland, Brazil, and Mars.

Mars Hills

The name was proposed in 1977 by New Zealand geologist Christopher J. Burgess in association with the Viking Hills and because of the color resemblance to that of the planet Mars.

Mars Saga

The player takes the role of Tom Jetland, a down-on-his-luck space traveller trapped on Mars after crashing his ship.

Mars: The Home Front

In it, a conversation between Carter and Jones indicates that something has happened to Dejah Thoris during the war; Jess Nevins' semi-official annotations for the series suggest that Moore was referencing her abduction in "The Home Front".

Mars/Venus

The album, which featured production from Kay Gee and Darren Lighty, managed to chart in the top 40 on the U.S. Billboard 200, peaking at 32, though it found greater success on the Billboard's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, where it peaked at 7.

Marshawn Lynch

After Lynch was shown eating the candy during a nationally-televised game on December 5, 2011, Mars offered him a two-year supply of Skittles and a custom dispenser for his locker.

Martian Child

Martian Child is a 2007 American comedy-drama film about a writer who adopts a strange young boy who believes himself to be from Mars.

Socially awkward, Dennis believes he is from Mars and only goes outdoors when under the cover of a large box to block out the sun's harmful rays.

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny Astray

Lowe is effectively removed from the story in the first chapter of Destiny Astray where he begins a long journey to Mars.

Musashimurayama East High School

In 1994, Masanori Hirasawa, a teacher at the school, found an asteroid orbiting between Mars and Jupiter (1994WQ12) and named it 7892 Musamurahigashi, after the school name.

NASA Academy

Chris Lewicki, President and Chief Engineer at Planetary Resources, formerly Mars Exploration Rover Flight Director, and the first person to drive the MER rovers on Mars

Needler's

Consequently, the emphasis of production shifted away from chocolate (where Cadburys, Rowntrees and Mars dominated) towards sweets.

Neil Leach

He is the co-recipient of two NASA grants to explore the potential use of the robotic fabrication technology, Contour Crafting, for building structures on the Moon and Mars.

North American DC-3

By about 1970 these had settled on the near-term launching of a 12-man space station in 1975, expanding this to a 50-man "space base" by 1980, a smaller lunar-orbiting station, and then eventually a manned mission to Mars in the 1980s.

Odyssey 5

However, during the series, another group of Synthetics are discovered to be from Mars and that in the original timeline, all the Synthetics created by humanity are destroyed by a satellite designed for that purpose by a cabal within the US government.

Oodnadatta

The name Oodnadatta has been used as a name for a crater on the planet Mars.

Organic compound

Mellitic acid, which contains no C-H bonds, is considered a possible organic substance in Martian soil.

Pao Tcheou

The Pao Tcheou series was massive in its scope, spanning all of the Earth and beyond, including a journey to Mars.

Paranormal

Many scientists are actively engaged in the search for unicellular life within the solar system, carrying out studies on the surface of Mars and examining meteors that have fallen to Earth.

Planet Stories

Both writers set many of their stories on a romanticized version of Mars that owed much to the Barsoom of Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Polonia brothers

Killer piranhas, killer Easter bunnies, haunted houses, trips to Mars, assorted demons, all were covered in the course of several decades of film-making.

Quamzin Kravshera

He was immediately dispatched to Mars in a plot to disable the Macross while she was landed and taking supplies from an abandoned U.N. Spacy base on the planet.

Quorn, South Australia

The name Quorn has been used as a name for a crater on the planet Mars, without commemorating the town.

Rabil, Cape Verde

The area around Rabil are almost entirely flat and deserted with rocks making it look like Mars with no grasslands.

Reclaimed water

In 1998, NASA announced it had built a human waste reclamation bioreactor designed for use in the International Space Station and a manned Mars mission.

Red Planet

Red Planet is a nickname for the planet Mars, due to its surface color.

Robert L. Lippert

He rushed into production his film version called Rocketship X-M, released a year later in 1950; he changed the destination to Mars to avoid copying exactly the same idea being utilized by producer George Pal in his large budget, high-profile Destination Moon.

Rover Environmental Monitoring Station

Rover Environmental Monitoring Station (REMS) is a weather station on Mars for Curiosity rover contributed by Spain and Finland.

Rubia tinctorum

According to Culpeper's herbal, the plant is ruled by Mars and has an opening quality, and will bind and strengthen afterwards.

Shang Dynasty

Other advances included the invention of many musical instruments and observations of Mars and various comets by Shang astronomers.

Shivnetra

mother, respected even by the greatest of rulers, feared by the most violent of fighters.They never saw Mangal (Planet Mars), but knew it was Red, they

Silures

As was standard practice, as revealed by inscriptions, the Romans matched their deities with local Silurian ones, and the local deity Ocelus was identified with Mars, the Roman god of war.

Skrull

In Amalgam Comics, the Skrulls are the native inhabitants of Mars (having crossed DC's Green Martians with the Skrulls).

Slashdot

Some articles are tagged with longer tags, such as whatcouldpossiblygowrong (expressing the perception of catastrophic risk), suddenoutbreakofcommonsense (used when the community feels that the subject has finally figured out something obvious), correlationnotcausation (used when scientific articles lack direct evidence; see correlation does not imply causation), or getyourasstomars (commonly seen in articles about Mars or space exploration).

SOLO – The Series

The web series tells the saga of a very unlikely reality star, Scott Drizhal (Jonathan Nail), who is sent to Mars as part of a reality series created by mega-producer, Jack Spratt (Jay Caputo).

Space Mouse

In this tale, Space Mouse and Millie notice a strange growth in the backyard and discover that it is being caused by an atomic ray from Mars.

Take On Mars

The user assumes control of a rover or lander in order to explore Mars.

Tars Tarkas

In Kage Baker's novel The Empress of Mars, human colonists on Mars have a Christmas-like celebration, and a settler appears costumed as "Uncle Tars Tarkas", giving gifts to children as if he were Father Christmas or Santa Claus.

Tars Tarkas is the first Barsoomian John Carter encounters when he appears on Mars.

The Earth Fighter Rayieza

The player takes the role of a young soldier who was stationed with the Rayieza unit on the planet Mars.

The Hybrid Front

In recent years, they developed Mars (with PETO trying spark a series of civil wars on that planet) and maintain a corporate hegemony over the Earth.

The Last Halloween

Four aliens - Gleep (Paul Williams), Romtu (Don Messick), Scoota (Frank Welker), and Bing (Frank Welker) have been sent to Earth from the planet Mars in order to find a rare material known as "coobi" (which is later revealed to be candy).

This Little Wiggy

At the Springfield Knowledgeum, the Mars exhibit's logo uses the same font and style of Star Wars logo.

Thundra

In the storyline, she is a member of a rag-tag remnant of Avengers in an alternate future where Earth has been devastated by evil robotic alien invaders from Mars.

Timothy Brinton

Sometimes cited as a British parallel to Orson Welles's radio production of The War of the Worlds, Alternative 3 purported to be an investigation into Britain's contemporary "brain drain." Alternative 3 was supposedly a plan to relocate a cross section of Earth's scientific and philosophical population to Mars in the event of climate change or some other planetary catastrophe.

Transit of Mars

A transit of Mars across the Sun from another planet takes place when the planet Mars passes between the Sun and the planet.

Triple point

The triple point pressure of water was used during the Mariner 9 mission to Mars as a reference point to define "sea level".

UFO: Aftershock

A sequel and third game in the series was released two years after Aftershock titled, UFO: Afterlight, to execute the same concept on Mars.

Vaitheeswaran Koil

It is one of the nine Navagraha (nine planets) temples associated with the planet Mars (Angaraka).

Valeri Polyakov

In light of these findings, researchers concluded that a stable mood and overall function could be maintained during extended duration spaceflights, such as manned missions to Mars.

Walking on the Milky Way

It became further ingrained in public consciousness due to its use in television commercials for Mars' Milky Way chocolate bar in 1998.

Wingblade

In Transformers: The Reign of Starscream #4 Arcee returns to Cybertron from Mars by hiding in the landing gear of Starscream's ship.

Wonders of the Solar System

The third episode looks at the atmosphere of the planets and moons of the Solar System, with Earth, Mars, and Titan being the main focus.

Yardang

Yardangs on Mars are typically found in the Amazonis region but the best ones are found in the equatorial region.

Yun Gi-Su

1/1/1 (born January 1st 1) is a Marsn sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s.

Zeugma, Commagene

A bronze statue of Mars, which aroused increased media interest in Zeugma, was found amongst storage jars in the larder of one of the villas.


A Prophetic Romance

A Prophetic Romance: Mars to Earth is an 1896 utopian novel written by John McCoy, and published pseudonymously as the work of "The Lord Commissioner," the narrator of the tale.

Alcohol during and after prohibition

The nation was highly optimistic and the leading prohibitionist in the United States Congress confidently asserted that "There is as much chance of repealing the Eighteenth Amendment as there is for a hummingbird to fly to the planet Mars with the Washington Monument tied to its tail.

Alexander V. Zakharov

He was a lead scientist of the failed Mars missions, Mars 96 and Fobos-Grunt.

August Rigo

10. Produced and featured songs on YouTube sensation D-Pryde's Mixtape "MARS"

Bobak Ferdowsi

Adam Steltzner, lead engineer of the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover Entry, Descent and Landing phase

Bochum Observatory

As a result of a complete upgrading, the installation has an accuracy of about 1/1000 of a degree in positioning and is thus being prepared for the planned Mars mission AMSAT P5A, which will be partly navigated by the IUZ Bochum.

Braxton Olita

On 12 August 2011 he also performed as a Mars crew vocalist, the band which was supporting Thirty Seconds to Mars during their concert in Nuremberg.

Cosmic Circle of Fellowship

After leaving prison, with flying saucers suddenly in the news, Ferguson reported he had travelled astrally to Mars, telling his few followers that Mars was about to send a friendly expedition to the earth.

Cycler

Mars cycler (or Earth-Mars cycler), a spacecraft trajectory that encounters Earth and Mars on a regular basis, or a spacecraft on such a trajectory

Edwin Lester Arnold

Marvel Comics did a brief comic version of Gullivar of Mars during the early 1970s, possibly as a reaction to DC gaining the rights to publish Burroughs' John Carter during this time.

Enigmo

The game takes place in outer space, specifically near Earth, Mars, Saturn, and asteroids, but gravity functions as it would on earth.

ExoMars

The lander's name refers to 19th century astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli, best known for describing the surface features of Mars.

Forrest Mars, Jr.

The ex-couple made significant contributions to the privately owned governing body for Fort Ticonderoga, though a falling-out between Executive Director Nicholas Westbrook and Mrs. Mars led to her resignation from the board and the end of the then-couple's financial support.

Forrest Mars, Sr.

After he returned to the United States, Mars started his own food business, Food Products Manufacturing, where he established the Uncle Ben's Rice line and a gourmet food

Gaston Millochau

From 1899 until 1903 he observed Mars at the Meudon Observatory and reported some details visible on its surface.

Haegemonia: Legions of Iron

Haegemonia takes place in the distant future where humanity has colonized the solar system and tensions are high between the World Government of Earth and colonial Mars.

Heinrich Louis d'Arrest

In 1864 D'Arrest made an unsuccessful search for Martian satellites, and posited an upper limit of 70 minutes of arc as the distance from Mars within which a moon should be sought.

James Marcello

The case was prosecuted by federal mob prosecutors Mitch Mars, T. Markus Funk, and John Scully.

John Lowell Gardner II

Some of the ships included (ships are not linked): Arabia, Bunker Hill, California, Democrat, Duxbury, Eclipse, Gentleman, Grotius, Lenore, Lepanto, Lotos, Marquis de Somerulas, Mars, Monterey, Nabob, Napke, Naples, Pallas, Pioneer, Plant, Plato, Ruble, Sappho, Shawmut, St Paul, Sumatra, Thetis, Unicorn.

Joseph Epping

He discovered the table of differences for the new moon in one of the tablets, and identified Guttu with Mars, Sakku with Saturn, and Te-ut with Jupiter (Epping and Strassmaier in Stimmen aus Maria-Laach, vol. 21, pp. 277–292).

Kitty Kane

Katelyn "Kitty" Kane, a United States resident that is known for her application and viral campaign to colonize Mars through the Mars One Project

Lego Mars Mission

It is set on Mars and features astronauts, aliens, and high-tech machinery.

Margherita de' Medici

To welcome the couple back to Parma, Mercury and Mars, with music by Claudio Monteverdi and text Claudio Achillini was performed in the Teatro Farnese.

Mars Attacks Judge Dredd

IDW had run a series of Mars Attacks! variant covers on their titles to promote a January 2013 crossover, one of which was their Judge Dredd ongoing: one of the Martians being menaced by Dredd, drawn by Greg Staples.

Mars family

Forrest E. Mars, Jr. (born August 16, 1931) – son of Forrest E. Mars, Sr.

Mars Music

The Mars Music e-commerce division, marsmusic.com, co-sponsored Metallica's Summer Sanitarium Tour in the summer of 2000, including online fan chats and a live concert webcast.

Nakhla

Nakhla meteorite, a Mars meteorite that landed in the Nakhla region of Abu Hommos, Alexandria, Egypt

Nilo

Nilo Syrtis, a region just north of Syrtis Major Planum on Mars

Opus the Penguin

A misdirected Mars probe happened to give him the means to return to Bloom County, where he set about looking for his old friends.

Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void

Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void is a non-fiction work by science author Mary Roach.

Quantum Apocalypse

During routine administration at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Dr. Rhodes discovers that a comet has suddenly veered off its orbit and smashed into Mars.

Replogle

In addition to globes of Earth, Replogle also makes globes of Venus, Mars, the moon, and the celestial sphere.

Rob Watts

He has interviewed many musicians and personalities such as Trespassers William, Mugison, The Mars Patrol and Kay Hanley.

St Mark's Clock

The relative positions of five planets (Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, and Mercury) were shown, as were the moon's phases and the position of the Sun in the zodiac.

Stuart Broomer

As a pianist, he is best known for playing in the jazz trio "Broomer, Mars & Smith" in the 1970s and later the duo "Stuart Broomer & John Mars" during the 1980s, both of which included compositions by Broomer in their repertoire.

Wilmer Herrison

This exhibition shows like in a travelogue, the deities (with Pachamama, Malku,...), the history of the Amerindian peoples (with Aymara, Tiwanaku,...), the encounter with different civilizations (with Gallia, Bandera, July 14, Ottoman Remembrance, Murano, Arica,...), strength of nature (with Volcano, Hurricane, Naturaleza viva, Twilight with color, Reflection,...) and project ourselves into the universe and its origins (with Exoplanet, Mars, Sedna,...).