* Total Recall ( 1990 ) – A science fiction action film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, where the plot concerns an apparently unsophisticated construction worker who turns out to be a freedom fighter from Mars and has been relocated to Earth.

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:

Inciona is also apparently invoked along with Lenus Mars Veraudunus on a bronze ex voto from Luxembourg ; it is unclear what connection, if any, exists between Inciona and Ancamna.

Other deities occasionally accompanied by ram-horned serpents include " Celtic Mars ", " Celtic Mercury ", and the horned snake, and also conventional snakes, appears together with the solar wheel, apparently as attributes of the sun or sky god.

In December 2004, another looted work of art was discovered: Venus disarming Mars by Rubens was once in the collection of the Rheinsberg Palace in Berlin, and was apparently looted by Soviet troops from the Königsberg Castle in East Prussia in 1945.

The fragmentary panel called " The Lupercal Panel " apparently preserves the moment when Romulus and Remus were discovered by Faustulus the shepherd, while Mars looks on.

The probes reached Mars apparently without incident, but communication was never established after landing.

* Garrett P. Serviss ' Edison's Conquest of Mars ( 1898 ) repeatedly mentions Schiaparellian canals ( which play a key part in the denouement of the story ), but does not describe them in detail, apparently considering them simply irrigation canals comparable to those on Earth — ignoring the fact that, in that case, they could hardly be visible from Earth.

The ISN anchor reports the assassination of William Edgars apparently by Free Mars terrorists.

Sometime before being stationed on Babylon 5, Winters was modified by Psi Corps to carry a hidden personality ( a vague picture in one of the Babylon 5 comic books alludes to this manipulation, apparently taking place at Psi Corps headquarters on Mars using Shadow technology ).

Howard's rival for the grant is the ethically-challenged, dubiously-accented Hugh Simon ( Kenneth Mars ), who apparently is from Yugoslavia ( Croatia ) but seems to be doing work in Western Europe.

The crew discovers, apparently surprised, that Mars is inhospitable and that that it is going to be a severe struggle to survive with their limited water for the year it will take for Earth to reach the right orbital position for a successful return.

Polygonal forms apparently caused by frost heave have been observed in near-polar regions of Mars by the Mars Orbiter Camera ( MOC ) aboard the Mars Global Surveyor and the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

The Romano-British population undoubtedly worshipped at pagan temples such as that excavated at Coleshill a few miles outside the modern city boundary, which was possibly dedicated to Minerva or Mars, and that identified at Letocetum where Icknield Street crosses Watling Street between Birmingham and Lichfield, also apparently dedicated to Minerva.

When the tide turns against him, he dons a tunic and a womanish wig ( spira ), apparently part of the same costume, and thus enjoys a reprieve, although this attire may not itself have been considered effeminate as it was also worn by the priests of Mars of whom Gracchus was the chief priest.

According to Benson, the poisoned food came from several Martian farms, but was exported through Wingrad City, one of three domed human settlements on Mars ; whereas Makian and several other farm owners have been offered ridiculously small sums of money for their farms, apparently without connection to the poisonings.

After reuniting with Shaun Parkes in Howard Davies ' production of Joe Penhall's Blue / Orange, in which he played Dr Bruce Flaherty opposite Brian Cox, Simm starred as Detective Inspector Sam Tyler in the 2006 BBC series Life on Mars playing a police officer apparently sent back in time to 1973.

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.

After the Battle of Saturn's Rings, the Zentraedi fleet commanded by Breetai emerged from hyperspace above Mars.

The fictional characters of these books are portrayed as real-life entities who live in a refuge on Mars.

In 1866 he and his prospector partner strike it rich ; but the partner is killed by American Indians and Carter takes refuge in a cave where he is overcome by smoke produced by an American Indian woman and wakes up on Mars.

If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.

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 ).

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

* 1996 – NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.

* " Capricorn ( A Brand New Name )", single by 30 Seconds to Mars from their self-titled album

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.

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.

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 ".

Dressed in a striking costume, his hair dyed red, Bowie launched his Ziggy Stardust stage show with the Spiders from Mars — Ronson, Bolder and Woodmansey — at the Toby Jug pub in Tolworth on 10 February 1972.

" 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.

After breaking up the Spiders from Mars, Bowie attempted to move on from his Ziggy persona.

* The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars ( 1972 )

David created his last great work, Mars Being Disarmed by Venus and the Three Graces, from 1822 to 1824.

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.

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 ).

" The Andalusian astronomer Ibn Bajjah (" Avempace ", d. 1138 ) proposed that the Milky Way was made up of many stars that almost touch one another and appear to be a continuous image due to the effect of refraction from sublunary material, citing his observation of the conjunction of Jupiter and Mars as evidence of this occurring when two objects are near.

Topics that were discussed ran the gamut: censorship, superheroes, humour, religion, fairy tales, Mars, cyberpunk, war, overpopulation, sex ... Episodes were 30 minutes in length ( having no commercial breaks on public television ) and typically showcased six to fourteen interviewed creators alongside bridging commentary from Rick.

As he slowly continued analyzing Tycho's Mars observations — now available to him in their entirety — and began the slow process of tabulating the Rudolphine Tables, Kepler also picked up the investigation of the laws of optics from his lunar essay of 1600.

The extended line of research that culminated in Astronomia nova ( A New Astronomy )— including the first two laws of planetary motion — began with the analysis, under Tycho's direction, of Mars ' orbit.

As promised by John Sheridan, Mars was granted independence since ISA laws required members to free any colony where the majority of colonists want independence (" Rising Star ").

:" Such a man was that adulterer Domitian who, after lately defiling himself by a union of the tragic style, revived the stern laws that were to be a terror to all men – ay, even to Mars and Venus – just as Julia was relieving her fertile womb and giving birth to abortions that displayed the likeness of her uncle.