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Mars and is
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.
Of the remaining planets, only Mars and Saturn have been observed as radio sources, and not very much information is available.
Mars has been observed twice at about 3-cm wave length, and the intensity of the observed radiation is in reasonable agreement with the thermal radiation which might be predicted on the basis of the known temperature of Mars.
It is Mars, isn't it??
`` It is Mars ''.
The Turkish word Mart is given after the name of Mars the god.
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.
The statue, which is colossal and entitled Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker, was not finished till four years after.
* 2001 – Mars Odyssey is launched.
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 black circle is the size of the orbit of Mars.
Living on Mars, Deckard is acting as a consultant to a movie crew filming the story of his Blade Runner days.
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 ).
In Indian tradition Fire is also linked to Surya or the Sun and Mangala or Mars, and with the south-east direction.
In the novel Man Plus by Frederick Pohl, an able-bodied astronaut, Roger Torraway, is surgically altered in order to augment his fragile human body and allow him to function in the harsh climate of Mars.
The result is both " monstrous " ( he has bat-like wings, infrared sight, an enhanced brain capable of processing all the new sensory inputs ) and " freeing " ( his cyborg body is more " naturally " made for Mars, as opposed to his all-human colleagues on the Mars mission ).
Torraway's cyborg character is reprised in a 1995 sequel, Mars Plus.

Mars and now
Just as now anyone may hurl insults at a citizen of Mars, or even of Tikopia, and no senatorial investigation will result.
Mike stopped to cherish all his brother selves, the many threes-fulfilled on Mars, corporate and discorporate, the precious few on Earth -- the unknown powers of three on Earth that would be his to merge with and cherish now that at last long waiting he grokked and cherished himself.
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.
* Mars ( motorcycle ), a now defunct German motorcycle manufacturer
* Mars Music, a now defunct U. S. music store chain
Odyssey now acts as a relay for UHF radio signals from the Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity.
* the Mars Gravity Biosatellite-a program to design, build, and launch a satellite rotated to artificially provide partial gravity of 0. 38g, equivalent to that of Mars, and hosting a small population of mice, to study the health effects of partial gravity, as opposed to zero gravity ; this originated as a Mars Society initiative and is now supported by the YourNameIntoSpace web portal
It now invites all interested people to attend a new conference to be held in the Natural History Museum Bern (" NHMB "), on September 10th from 18h15 till 20h15, on the theme " Searching for Life on Mars ".
It now serves as a staple of Zubrin's speaking engagements and general advocacy as head of the Mars Society, an organization devoted to the colonization of Mars.
In Armageddon, the Martian colonists now reside underground following the destruction of the machine responsible for terraforming Mars.
In Europe and all over the world since the 1960s, artists have combined Surrealism with what is believed to be a classical 16th century technique called mischtechnik, a kind of mix of egg tempera and oil paint rediscovered by Ernst Fuchs, a contemporary of Dalí, and now practiced and taught by many followers, including Robert Venosa and Chris Mars.
Fogg suggests that Mars was a biologically compatible planet in its youth, but is not now in any of these three categories, since it could only be terraformed with greater difficulty.
This story is about later waves of immigrants to Mars, and how the geography of Mars is now largely named after the people from the first four expeditions ( e. g., Spender Hill, Driscoll Forest ) rather than after physical descriptions of the terrain.
Hathaway ( the physician / archaeologist from the Fourth Expedition ), now retired, is living on Mars with his wife and children in the hills above an old, abandoned settlement, vacated many years ago when everyone returned to Earth at the beginning of the war there.
Holst's original manuscripts for it are now in the holdings of the Royal College of Music (" Mars ", " Venus ", " Saturn ", " Uranus ", " Neptune "), Royal Academy of Music (" Mercury ") and British Library (" Jupiter ", " Saturn ", " Uranus ").
The dome room has now been restored to its appearance during Jefferson's lifetime, with " Mars yellow " walls and a painted green floor.
If they were from another planetary body, it would have to be substantially identical to Mars as it now is understood.
Edison's Conquest of Mars was written by Garrett P. Serviss, a now little-remembered writer, who described the famous inventor Thomas Edison leading a counterattack against the invaders on their home soil.
The town was primarily agricultural until the early 1900s, when the Klein Chocolate Company ( now part of Mars, Inc .) and several shoe factories ( the last of which closed in 1979 ) opened.
It is unknown whether the spacecraft was able to follow its automatic programming and go into Mars orbit or if it flew by Mars and is now in a heliocentric orbit.

Mars and uninhabitable
Set entirely on a colonized Mars where a plague has made the planet uninhabitable by men, so that only women populate Mars, living alongside an ancient parasitic organism ( perhaps also alien to Mars ) referred to as " the Fenrir " and " the Wolf.
The two contact Cromwell, who explains that Mars was rendered uninhabitable by an alien species, and that he was institutionalized to silence his opposition to the Mars mission.
handed down to them by Furon scouts eons ago when the Furons stopped on Earth for " shore leave " following a war with Mars ( which was rendered uninhabitable by the Furon Empire ).

Mars and homeworld
* In the RPG Mutant Chronicles, Mars is the homeworld of Capitol Megacorporation.
It's made of trisilicate, which is only found on Mars, the homeworld of the Ice Warriors.
The Invaders are shapeshifting white humanoids resembling the White Martians, who invaded J ' onn J ' onzz's homeworld Mars and nearly did so with Earth.
After a Geek armada attacks Earth and Mars a counter attack is launched against the Geek homeworld.
In the various Doctor Who serials which feature the Ice Warriors, mention is made that Mars is their homeworld.

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