They wanted to pair Lee's character, the Michael Jordan-loving Mars Blackmon, and Jordan in a marketing campaign for the Air Jordan line.

The Air Jordan III was also famous for the humorous ads depicting Spike Lee as Mars Blackmon, the character he played in his film ' She's Gotta Have It '.

Nola Darling ( portrayed by Tracy Camilla Johns ) is a young, attractive, sexually-independent Brooklynite who juggles three suitors: the polite and well-meaning Jamie Overstreet ( Tommy Redmond Hicks ); the self-obsessed model Greer Childs ( John Canada Terrell ); and the immature, motor-mouthed bicycle messenger Mars Blackmon ( Spike Lee ).

Torraway's cyborg character is reprised in a 1995 sequel, Mars Plus.

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.

A girlfriend recalled his " scrawling notes on a cocktail napkin about a crazy rock star named Iggy or Ziggy ", and on his return to England he declared his intention to create a character " who looks like he's landed from Mars ".

The character Saxifrage Russell suffers Broca's aphasia due to a stroke suffered while being rescued from interrogators in Kim Stanley Robinson's novel Green Mars.

* Keith Mars, fictional TV character

* Lianne Mars, fictional TV character

* Veronica Mars ( character ), fictional TV character

* Sailor Mars, fictional character from the Sailor Moon series

* Ethan Mars, a fictional character from the video game Heavy Rain

* In the Watchmen comic by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons Dr. Manhattan character tours Mars and visits Olympus Mons, admiring its features.

* Several stories of the DC Comics character Martian Manhunter take place on Mars, and the Manhunter is a Martian.

In the game's third installment, Descent³, the player's character is rescued and then assisted by a group of scientists whose base of operations is located on Mars, before the facility is destroyed at one particular game level by an invading Earth force.

An aging Robert Zubrin also appears as a background character in The Martian Race ( 1999 ) by Gregory Benford, a science fiction novel depicting early human explorers on Mars in the very near future.

It takes place on Earth and tells the story of a group of super soldiers, including the main character, who are physically enhanced by the nanotechnology originally developed by Capek on Mars.

* Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote a series of books ( 1912 ) depicting his character John Carter on Mars.

* Cindy " Mac " Mackenzie, a character from the TV series Veronica Mars

An attempt to visit Barsoom takes them to an apparently different version of Mars seemingly under the colonial rule of the British Empire ; but near the end of the novel, Heinlein's recurring character Lazarus Long hints that they had traveled to Barsoom, and that its " colonial " status was an illusion imposed on them by the telepathically adept Barsoomians:

Tim Schafer stated that Ben's last name is " Throttle " but it wasn't included in the game because of fears of a legal action by the producers of Biker Mice from Mars, which featured a character by the name of Throttle.

As Russell's character infiltrates the transnat terraforming project, the newly evolving martian biosphere is described at great length and with more profound changes most aimed at warming up the surface of Mars to the brink of making it habitable, from continent sized orbital mirrors, another space elevator built ( using another anchored asteroid that is dubbed " New Clarke "), to melting the northern polar ice cap, and digging moholes deep enough to form volcanoes.

The story weaves back and forth from character to character, providing a picture of Mars as seen by them.

Boone's character portrayal is complex ; in one light, Boone is a stereotypically simple, heroic figure, an everyman hero: his first words on his first trip to Mars are " Well, here we are.

The counterpart of Ares among the Roman gods is Mars, who as a father of the Roman people held a more important and dignified place in ancient Roman religion for his agricultural and tutelary functions.

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.

In Doom, players assume the role of a space marine, popularly known as " Doomguy ", who must fight his way through a military base on Mars ' moon, Phobos, and kill the demons from Hell.

The player takes the role of an unnamed space marine who has been punitively posted to Mars after assaulting his commanding officer, who ordered his unit to fire upon civilians.

Hippothous led the tribes of Pelasgian spearsmen, who dwelt in fertile Larissa-Hippothous, and Pylaeus of the race of Mars,

Grasping the bloody dagger, he swore by Mars and all the other gods that he would do everything in his power to overthrow the dominion of the Tarquinii and that he would neither be reconciled to the tyrants himself nor tolerate any who should be reconciled to them, but would look upon every man who thought otherwise as an enemy and till his death would pursue with unrelenting hatred both the tyranny and its abettors ; and if he should violate his oath, he prayed that he and his children might meet with the same end as Lucretia.

The group was founded by bass guitarist Nikki Sixx and drummer Tommy Lee, who were later joined by lead guitarist Mick Mars and lead singer Vince Neil.

Mars, who suffers from a rare hereditary form of arthritis called ankylosing spondylitis, went into seclusion in 2001.

Its founder and president is Richard Heidmann, a space propulsion engineer, who participated in the founding convention of the Mars Society in August 1998 and is a member of the Mars Society Steering Committee.

It wants to gather around the scientists working on Mars in Switzerland, all people who share their interest on the matter.

A sick man named Jacobs starts having visions in his sleep, which turns out to be a telepathic link between him and a child called Charlie Frankston, his other self on Mars, who lives in a technological utopia.

The first book of Lewis's Space Trilogy, a rare example of theological science fiction, it features a philologist named Ransom who arrives by accident on Mars ( called Malacandra by the natives ).

A secret British Mars expedition crashes on Mars leaving one survivor who struggles to provide his basic needs from a hostile planet and is eventually discovered by intelligent natives.

* The Sands of Mars ( 1951 ) by Arthur C. Clarke involves a reporter who makes the long voyage to a desert Mars to write about the human colonists and discovers native life on Mars.

Queen Azura rules Mars and turns those who oppose her into Clay Men.

* In Police Your Planet ( 1975 ) by Lester Del Rey, a disgraced, embittered Earth cop is exiled to a Mars that has been thoroughly corrupted by domed city life-he who controls the air machinery, makes the rules.

When Kemp became Dole's running mate in 1996, they appeared on the cover of the August 19, 1996 issue of Time magazine, but the pair barely edged out a story on the reported discovery of extraterrestrial life on Mars, which was so close to being the cover story that Time inset it on the cover and wrote about how difficult the decision was.

It appeared already in Heinlein's Red Planet and is a major plot element in Greg Bear's Moving Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy, and S. C. Sykes ' books.

According to Josep Puig, the Andalusian astronomer Ibn Bajjah proposed that the Milky Way was made up of many stars which almost touched one another and appeared to be a continuous image due to the effect of refraction from sublunary material, citing his observation of the conjunction of Jupiter and Mars on 500 AH ( 1106 / 1107 AD ) as evidence.

The town was said to have appeared to have been swept up by a tornado on Earth, and brought to Mars.

The short stories " Mars Is Heaven " and " Dwellers in Silence " also appeared as episodes of Dimension X.

She also appeared in the newsroom comedy-drama The Paper ( 1994 ),( Steven Speilberg's ) Hook, the alien invasion satire Mars Attacks!

* Rock bands – Jeff Wayne and Rick Wakeman with Kevin Peek did a Progressive Rock version of the entire suite with added incidental music on an album called " Beyond The Planets " which also contained occasional narration by Patrick Allen. An arrangement of " Mars " by progressive-rock trio Emerson, Lake & Powell appeared on their eponymous album ( 1985 ) and was played in their 1985 – 86 live shows. King Crimson, Greg Lake's first successful band performed a rock arrangement of " Mars " live in 1969.

He also appeared in episodes of ALF, Campus Ladies, Entourage, Everybody Loves Raymond, Frasier, Friends, Greek, How I Met Your Mother, Mad About You, Married ... with Children, Murphy Brown, NYPD Blue, Reba, Reno 911 !, That ' 70s Show, Veronica Mars, Yes, Dear, and Desperate Housewives.

In his later years he appeared in The Amityville Horror ( 1979 ); The Specialist ( 1994 ), and Mars Attacks !.

* She appeared in a season 3 episode of Veronica Mars portraying Selma Hearst, the granddaughter of the founder of Hearst College and college board member, who had faked her own kidnapping.

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.

“ The sacrifice was performed only in years when Mars was morning star and usually originated in a dream in which the Morning Star appeared to some man and directed him to capture a suitable victim.

** " In the Temple of Mars " ( first appeared in Worlds of If, April 1966 )

** " In the Temple of Mars " ( first appeared in Worlds of If, April 1966 )

** " In the Temple of Mars " ( first appeared in Worlds of If, April 1966 )

It appeared to him that the test had minimised the significance of the Mars / key-sector correlations with athletes by splitting the sample of athletes and that the experimenters, who were supposed to be upholding scientific standards, were actually distorting and manipulating evidence to conceal the result of an ill-considered test.

According to Kenneth Irving, "... when the bias was corrected the Mars effect appeared even stronger than before.

" Believe " took prominence on the packaging (" Original Mars " appeared in smaller print ) to indicate support for the England national football team.

It had also appeared some ten years previously, in a very similar form, in the Doctor Who story Pyramids of Mars.

In 1996, he appeared in Tim Burton's sci-fi comedy Mars Attacks!

He has appeared in Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Where the Heart Is and Life on Mars.

( Mr. Harris actually appeared in an early second season episode, " Gossip ", played by Kenneth Mars ) and Mr. Parker for the rest of the series.