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.

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

Furthermore the Opportunity rover discovered the " Heat Shield Rock " meteorite on Mars in addition to five similar iron meteorites.

Enterprise was the first to be produced in high-definition ; the first to be broadcast in HDTV, beginning on October 15, 2003, midway into the third season ; the first to be filmed on digital video ( season 4 ); and the first science fiction television or movie production in history to use video footage taken on another planet ( the Sojourner rover approaching the Yogi Rock, taken by the Mars Pathfinder lander and used in the opening credits ).

* Rock Varnish As A Habitat For Extant Life On Mars

* 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.

Note that this does not refer to meteorites found on Mars, such as Heat Shield Rock.

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 ).

Mick Rock cites the " Life On Mars " clip as his favorite of the four.

In the 1960s, Big Rock Ski Area was founded on Mars Hill Mountain.

Mars Hill Mountain also features a ski resort called Big Rock Ski Area.

Major releases this year included Swingers, Independence Day, Fargo, Trainspotting, The Rock, The English Patient, Twister, Mars Attacks !, Jerry Maguire and a version of Evita starring Madonna.

" Rock acts that have cited The Birthday Party as an influence include LCD Soundsystem, White Zombie, The Jesus And Mary Chain, The Mars Volta, Coil, My Bloody Valentine, Deerhunter, Eugene Hutz of Gogol Bordello, Cocteau Twins, The Jesus Lizard, Scratch Acid, Melt-Banana, 16 Horsepower, Big Boys, Dinosaur Jr., and Tindersticks.

Red Rock and Red Planet Diagenesis: Comparison of Earth and Mars Concretions PDF version, 3. 4 MB: GSA Today, v. 15, n. 8, pp. 4 – 10.

" From Yesterday ", the third single from A Beautiful Lie, had major success, reaching number one on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks and becoming 30 Seconds to Mars second top 10 hit.

It was headlined by 30 Seconds to Mars, and also featured Flyleaf, Thousand Foot Krutch, The Veer Union, and After Midnight Project with a free after-party show at the Hard Rock with Richy Nix.

Plot points taken from the immediately preceding serial, Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars include the Rock People as derived from the Clay People of the former, and the bringing-back-to-life of people assumed by Captain Torch to have died.

** July 29, 2006: 311, Dashboard Confessional, Soul Asylum, Yellowcard, Hawthorne Heights, 30 Seconds to Mars, Matchbook Romance, Damone, Morningwood, People in Planes, Eagles of Death Metal, Pepper, and Rock Kills Kid.

Rock Is From Mars, Willy Is From Venus

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

After a three-year period of experimentation he re-emerged in 1972 during the glam rock era with the flamboyant, androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust, spearheaded by the hit single " Starman " and the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

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 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.

* 30 Seconds to Mars, an American alternative rock band

* 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.

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.

* April 3 – Mick Mars, American rock guitarist ( Mötley Crüe )

Basalt is also a common rock on the surface of Mars, as determined by data sent back from the planet's surface and by Martian meteorites.

* Researcher: Mars rock varnish hints of life July 2, 2001 By Richard Stenger CNN

The rock group Sands recorded an abridged version of " Mars " that would dominate the latter half of their 1967 single " Listen to the Sky ".

Bands such as 30 Seconds to Mars created a more traditional progressive sound that incorporated elements of space rock.

A martian meteorite is a rock that formed on the planet Mars, was ejected from Mars by the impact of an asteroid or comet, and landed on the Earth.

The video also received four nominations at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, making 30 Seconds to Mars the most nominated rock artist in VMA history for a single year.

Mars was a New York City rock band formed by vocalist Sumner Crane in 1975.

* Mick Mars, Played guitar with the four man heavy metal rock group Mötley Crüe.

* Mick Mars, member of rock band Mötley Crüe

) With their 1994 album, Mars Audiac Quintet, Stereolab focused more on pop and less on rock, resulting in what Allmusic described as " what may be the group's most accessible, tightly-written album ".

Robots in space include the Mars rovers which could carry out sampling and photography in the harsh environment of the atmosphere on Mars.

Phobos soil sampling and downloading were developed by the GEOHI RAN Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences ( Vernadski Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical chemistry ) and the integrated scientific studies of Phobos and Mars by remote and contact methods were the responsibility of the Russian Space Research Institute, where Alexander Zakharov served as lead scientist of the mission

Kepler calculated and recalculated various approximations of Mars ' orbit using an equant ( the mathematical tool that Copernicus had eliminated with his system ), eventually creating a model that generally agreed with Tycho's observations to within two arcminutes ( the average measurement error ).

* C and C ++, via the DBC for C preprocessor, GNU Nana, eCv static analysis tool, or the Digital Mars C ++ compiler, via CTESK extension of C. Loki Library provides a mechanism named ContractChecker that verifies a class follows design by contract.

The main facility, located on Mars Hill just west of downtown Flagstaff, houses the original 24-inch ( 0. 61 m ) Clark Refracting Telescope, although its role today is as a public education tool and not research.

In March 2007, following the signing of space collaboration agreement between China and Russia, scientists at PolyU started to develop another sophisticated space tool, known as the Soil Preparation System, for a mission to Phobos, one of the two moons of Mars, on board a Russian spacecraft.

NERVA demonstrated that nuclear thermal rocket engines were a feasible and reliable tool for space exploration, and at the end of 1968 SNPO certified that the latest NERVA engine, the NRX / XE, met the requirements for a manned Mars mission.