* 1993 – NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.

* 1992 – NASA launches the Mars Observer, a $ 511 million probe to Mars, in the first U. S. mission to the planet in 17 years.

* August 21 – NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Observer orbiter 3 days before the spacecraft is scheduled to enter orbit around Mars.

* Mars Observer – 25 September 1992 – Attempted Mars orbiter ( contact lost )

The Mars Observer spacecraft, also known as the Mars Geoscience / Climatology Orbiter, was a 1, 018-kilogram ( 2, 244 lb ) robotic space probe launched by NASA on September 25, 1992 to study the Martian surface, atmosphere, climate and magnetic field.

On August 21, 1993, at 01: 00 UTC, three days prior to the scheduled Mars orbital insertion, there was an " inexplicable " loss of contact with Mars Observer.

The force density, of roughly 0. 2 N ( 0. 04 lbf ) per square meter, that was exerted on the Mars Observer, during aerobraking is comparable to the force of a 40 mph ( 60 km / h ) wind on a human hand at sea level on Earth.

* Mars Observer — failed NASA Mars orbiter

After the loss of Mars Observer and the onset of the rising costs associated with the future International Space Station, NASA began seeking cheaper, smaller solutions to scientific interplanetary missions.

The first mission in the new program was Mars Global Surveyor, launched in 1996 to map Mars and provide geologic data using instruments intended for Mars Observer.

Following Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Climate Orbiter carried two instruments, one originally intended for Mars Observer, to study the climate and weather of Mars.

Only one spacecraft of this class was eventually constructed -- the Mars Observer.

The Observer program, starting with Mars Observer, was envisioned as a series of low-cost missions to the inner solar system, based on commercial Earth satellites.

Of Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe the philosopher Whitehead said the Earth's first visitors to Mars should be persons likely to make a good impression, and when he was asked, `` Whom would you send ''??

Steady radiation which was presumably of thermal origin was observed from Venus at 3.15 and 9.4 cm, and from Mars and Jupiter at 3.15 cm in 1956 ( Mayer, McCullough, and Sloanaker, 1958, A, B, C ), and from Saturn at 3.75 cm in 1957 ( Drake and Ewen, 1958 ).

Part of the time saved was spent on a preliminary estimate for a long-distance plan to free bound oxygen in the sands of Mars to make the planet more friendly to future human generations.

The Man from Mars had interrupted him with his work half finished -- and that stupid jackass Short was certain to louse it up.

The temple to Ares in the agora of Athens that Pausanias saw in the second century AD had only been moved and rededicated there during the time of Augustus ; in essence it was a Roman temple to the Augustan Mars Ultor.

The statue, which is colossal and entitled Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker, was not finished till four years after.

This type of anemometer is mostly used for middle-school level instruction which most students make themselves, but a similar device was also flown on Phoenix Mars Lander.

The event took place on the Champ de Mars, which was at the time far outside Paris.

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.

" It was also claimed that officials at the Navy board of inquiry stated that the planes " flew off to Mars.

This mound on Mars ' north pole may be the result of an impact crater that was buried by sediment and subsequently re-exposed by erosion.

His interest in space, however, was his primary focus, especially after reading science fiction stories by writers such as Edgar Rice Burroughs, which stirred his imagination about life on other planets, such as Mars.

It was a joke call from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory concerning the preparation of the Mars Rovers ( Spirit and Opportunity ) for the oncoming Martian winter.

Although first introduced by Hebert Candies in 1955, Mars, Incorporated was the first to produce white chocolate within the United States.

Mars was the planet most often used in storylines in Cowboy Bebop.

Toba explained that it was not possible for the staff of Cowboy Bebop to have a dramatic rooftop scene occur on Venus, so " we ended up normally falling back to Mars ".

" 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.

Footage from the final show was released in 1983 for the film Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

The Deep Space series was continued by the Deep Space 2 probes, which were launched in January 1999 on Mars Polar Lander and were intended to strike the surface of Mars.

EUROPA was used as a ground-based planner for the Mars Exploration Rovers.

EUROPA II was used to support the Phoenix Mars Lander and will support the upcoming Mars Science Laboratory.

The American Vision for Space Exploration, originally introduced by President George W. Bush and put into practice through the Constellation program, had as a long term goal to eventually send human astronauts to Mars.

* Sleepers of Mars ( 1973 ) a collection of five stories originally published in magazines in the 1930s: Sleepers of Mars, Worlds to Barter, Invisible Monster, The Man from Earth & The Third Vibrator.

Mars Odyssey was originally a component of the Mars Surveyor 2001 program, and was named the Mars Surveyor 2001 Orbiter.

It was originally detailed in a research paper by NASA engineers Robert Zubrin and David Baker in 1990, and later expanded upon in Zubrin's 1996 book The Case for Mars.

Some 26 months after the Earth Return Vehicle is originally launched from Earth, a second vehicle, the " Mars Habitat Unit ", would be launched on a 6-month long low energy transfer trajectory to Mars, and would carry a crew of four astronauts ( the minimum number required so that the team can be split in two without leaving anyone alone ).

In the world of The League, the Martians from The War of the Worlds are not originally from Mars, but were invading aliens who moved on to try to conquer Earth.

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.

Vangelis performed live and released Mythodea, a predominantly orchestral rather than electronic piece that was originally written in 1993, and used by NASA as the theme for the Mars Odyssey mission in 2001.

Podkayne of Mars is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialised in Worlds of If ( November 1962, January, March 1963 ), and published in hardcover in 1963.

Although originally intended for theatrical release, Mars Needs Women was distributed directly to television by American International.

The poem consists of 103 cantos and relates the tragedy of a space ship which, originally bound for Mars with a cargo of colonists from the ravaged Earth, after an accident is ejected from the solar system and into an existential struggle.

180s BC ) refers to Romulus as a divinity without reference to Quirinus, whom Roman mythographers identified as an originally Sabine war-deity, and thus to be identified with Roman Mars.

Also in 1974, TSR published Warriors of Mars, a miniatures rules book set in the fantasy world of Barsoom originally imagined by Edgar Rice Burroughs in his series of novels about John Carter of Mars, to which Gygax paid homage in the " Preface " of the first edition of D & D.

Mick Rock directed and edited four clips, all originally shot on 16 mm colour film, to promote four consecutive David Bowie singles —" John, I'm Only Dancing " ( May 1972 ), " The Jean Genie " ( Nov. 1972 ), the December 1972 US re-release of " Space Oddity " and the 1973 release of the single " Life On Mars " ( lifted from Bowie's earlier album Hunky Dory ).

Founded in 1917, the parish was originally located in downtown Mars, but by the early 2000s, membership had swelled so much that a new facility was constructed just outside of the neighboring Seven Fields borough along PA 228 in 2008.

The second busiest road in Mars is the Mars-Evans City Road which was originally Pennsylvania Route 855.

This method was originally planned for the Mars Odyssey orbiter, but the significant design impacts proved too costly.

The terms " inferior planet " and " superior planet " were originally used in the geocentric cosmology of Claudius Ptolemy to differentiate as ' inferior ' those planets ( Mercury and Venus ) whose epicycle remained collinear with the Earth and Sun, compared to the ' superior ' planets ( Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn ) that did not.

LaFayette was originally headquartered in Mars Hill, Indianapolis, Indiana and made luxury motor cars, beginning in 1920.