Rock band The Mars Volta combines elements of progressive rock with traditional Mexican folk music and Latin rhythms along with Cedric Bixler-Zavala's Spanglish lyrics.

Rock musician David Bowie also made three popular concept albums ; The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, about the fictional character, Ziggy Stardust and his band ; Aladdin Sane ; and Diamond Dogs.

In the 2000s, the rock band 30 Seconds to Mars released two concept albums, 30 Seconds to Mars ( 2002 ) and This Is War ( 2009 ).

Known as The Hype, the band members created characters for themselves and wore elaborate costumes that prefigured the glam style of The Spiders From Mars.

* 30 Seconds to Mars, an American alternative rock band

* Xueyang " Mars " Ma, member of Mandopop boy band Top Combine

On seeing him perform with the band Rock Candy at the Starwood in Hollywood, California, Mars suggested they have Neil join the band.

While trying to find a suitable name, Mars remembered an incident which occurred when he was playing with a band called White Horse, when one of the other band members called the group " a motley looking crew.

Shortly after, all the band members except for Mars underwent drug rehabilitation ; Mars cleaned up on his own.

* Progressive rock band Ayreon's 2000 album Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer tells the story of the last surviving human living on a Mars colony, many years after a war wiped out all life on Earth, leaving the Mars colony berift of supplies.

* The title of the song " Knights of Cydonia " by the band Muse references a region of Mars containing the famous " Face ".

The band was composed of guitarist and vocalist Paul Westerberg, guitarist Bob Stinson, bassist Tommy Stinson, and drummer Chris Mars for most of their career.

Following several critically acclaimed albums, including Let It Be and Tim, Bob Stinson left the band in 1986 and the band experienced several line-up changes ; Slim Dunlap joined as lead guitarist and Steve Foley replaced Chris Mars in 1990.

The band soon recorded a four-song demo tape in Mars ' basement, and handed it to Peter Jesperson in May 1980.

" His enthusiasm kept us going at times, definitely ", Mars later said, " His vision, his faith in the band was a binding force ".

Despite this, the band did not feel part of the hardcore scene ; as Mars later stated, " we were confused about what we were ".

In one session, Mars and Westerberg switched instruments and the band began to improvise, with Westerberg shouting " It's a hootenanny " repeatedly.

There may also be a connection with the Roman god of war Mars, via hypothetical Proto-Indo-European * M ̥ rēs ; compare Ancient Greek μάρναμαι ( marnamai ), " to fight, to battle ", or Punjabi maarna ( to kill, to hit ).

In his Rudolphine Tables ( 1627 ), Johannes Kepler used a prototype of year zero which he labeled Christi ( Christ ) between years labeled Ante Christum ( Before Christ ) and Post Christum ( After Christ ) on the mean motion tables for the Sun, Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus and Mercury.

* Asimov ( crater ), an impact crater on Mars, named after Isaac Asimov

She also was a great-grandniece of Giovanni Schiaparelli, an Italian astronomer who believed he had discovered the supposed canals of Mars, and a great-grandniece of art expert Bernard Berenson ( 1865 – 1959 ) and his sister Senda Berenson ( 1868 – 1954 ), an athlete and educator who was one of the first two women elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.

De Palma has also worked with composers Pino Donaggio ( Carrie, Home Movies, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out, Body Double, Raising Cain ), Ennio Morricone ( The Untouchables, Casualties of War, and Mission to Mars ) and Ryuichi Sakamoto ( Snake Eyes, Femme Fatale ).

The five major planets are associated with and even named after the elements: Jupiter 木星 is Wood ( 木 ), Mars 火星 is Fire ( 火 ), Saturn 土星 is Earth ( 土 ), Venus 金星 is Metal ( 金 ), and Mercury 水星 is Water ( 水 ).

Mars has become the new central hub of human civilization, and interplanetary crime syndicates exert influence over the government and the Inter-Solar System Police ( ISSP ), limiting their effectiveness in dealing with crime.

" The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars ( 1972 ), combining the hard rock elements of The Man Who Sold the World with the lighter experimental rock and pop of Hunky Dory, was released in June.

* Deimos ( moon ), the smaller and outermost of Mars ' two natural satellites

Specialised terms such as selenology ( studies of the Moon ), areology ( of Mars ), etc., are also in use.

It is located in a binary star system ( Gridlock ) within the constellation of Kasterborous ( Pyramids of Mars, Attack of the Cybermen and Voyage of the Damned ), at " galactic coordinates ten-zero-eleven-zero-zero by zero-two from galactic zero centre " ( Pyramids of Mars ( 1975 ), Full Circle ( 1980 ) and partially in " The Family of Blood " ( 2007 )), which is some 250 million light years away from Earth ( as stated in the 1996 Doctor Who television movie ).

Gygax worked on rules for more miniatures and tabletop battle games, including Cavaliers and Roundheads ( English Civil War, with Jeff Perren ), Classic Warfare ( Ancient Period: 1500 BC to 500 AD ), and Warriors of Mars.

* Kim Stanley Robinson, The Mars trilogy ( Red Mars ( 1992 ), Green Mars ( 1993 ), Blue Mars ( 1996 ))

In 2008, Keitel was cast in the role of Detective Gene Hunt in ABC's short-lived US cover version of the successful English time-travel police drama series Life on Mars.

As UNOMA's power erodes, the Mars treaty is renegotiated in a move led by Frank Chalmers ; the outcome is impressive but proves short-lived as the TransNats find ways around it through loop-holes.

Other influences on the character include Buck Rogers, the short-lived comic series Lars of Mars by Jerry Siegel and Murphy Anderson, as well as Adam Strange ( also famously inked by Anderson ).

During a ball, Princess Serenity and Prince Endymion sang Waltz ni Koi wo Nosete, and the Shitennou were paired with their respective partners, however, this romance was short-lived as Sailor Mars, Sailor Jupiter, Sailor Mercury, and Sailor Venus were each forced to fight Jadeite, Nephrite, Zoisite and Kunzite respectively.

He also played FBI Agent Franklin Morgan in the short-lived American television series Life on Mars.

No further loss of the Canopus lock was experienced, although roll transients occurred 38 more times before the encounter with Mars.

* " Mars is No Place for Children " ( 1999 ) by Mary A. Turzillo, a Nebula-award winning novella about a child growing up on Mars.

* In January – February 1950, Superman journeys to Mars to help actor-director Orson Welles smash a plot by the Martian dictator Martler to " blitzkrieg the solar system " and conquer the Earth ( S No. 62 / 1: " Black Magic on Mars!

By mid-1977 in downtown New York, punk rock was already ceding its cutting-edge status to the anarchic sound of Teenage Jesus and the Jerks and Mars, spearheads of what became known as No Wave, although several original punk bands continued to perform and new ones emerged on the scene.

Two other Soviet launches at around the same time, Mars 2MV-4 No. 1 and Mars 2MV-3 No. 1 were spacecraft, however both failed to leave Earth orbit due to problems with the upper stages of their carrier rockets.

Mars 2M No. 521 and Mars 2M No. 522, known in the West as Mars 1969A and B, were heavier spacecraft with masses of.

No such influence has been detected, and indeed space probes sent to Venus, Mars and other places could not have successfully flown by or landed on their targets if a Counter-Earth existed, as it was not accounted for in navigational calculation.

) Both Podkayne of Mars and I Will Fear No Evil have female-point-of-view characters who are portrayed as ideal, almost saintlike types, and both end with the death of the protagonist ( using Heinlein's original ending of Podkayne ).

and his first work for Marvel Comics, penciling the 17-page story " The Master Assassin of Mars, Part 3 " in John Carter, Warlord of Mars No. 18 ( Nov. 1978 ).

In 1978, Mars appeared on the influential No New York compilation LP produced by Brian Eno, along with DNA, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, and James Chance and the Contortions, which helped to bring the nascent No Wave genre into the foreground.

* Mars LP: The Complete Studio Recordings, NYC 1977 – 1978 – CD, 2003 ( G3G / Spookysound ) ( Spain ; limited edition ) ( later released on LP by Important ) ( reissued by No More in 2008 )

The whole is reminiscent of earlier No Wave bands, such as Mars, and the work of Swans ' contemporaries, like Sonic Youth's Confusion Is Sex and Kill Yr Idols ; but Raggett contends that " early Swans really is like little else on the planet before or since ".