* the Mars Analog Research Station Program ( MARS ) – analogues of possible future Mars habitation units, located in Mars-like environments.

To prove the viability of the Mars Habitat Unit, the Mars Society has implemented the Mars Analogue Research Station Program ( MARS ), which has established a number of prototype Mars Habitat Units around the world.

Some MARS teams have heavy vehicles such as the Mars One.

The fourth station, the Australia Mars Analog Research Station / MARS Oz is currently in the planning stages and it will be deployed to the selected research site ( S 30 ° 18 ' 13. 91 " E 139 ° 26 ' 39. 55 ") east of the Arkaroola Sanctury, which itself is roughly north of Adelaide, South Australia.

The Mars Society launched the Mars Analog Research Station ( MARS ) Project in order to develop key knowledge needed to prepare for the human exploration of Mars.

The Flashline MARS ( Mars Arctic Research Station ) project entered its third season in 2004.

The Mars Society of Australia is seeking sponsors to construct MARS-Oz in the Lake Frome Plains east of Arkaroola, and a primary focus of this MARS will be the search for ancient fossils.

Just as now anyone may hurl insults at a citizen of Mars, or even of Tikopia, and no senatorial investigation will result.

There may also be a connection with the Roman god of war Mars, via hypothetical Proto-Indo-European * M ̥ rēs ; compare Ancient Greek μάρναμαι ( marnamai ), " to fight, to battle ", or Punjabi maarna ( to kill, to hit ).

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.

For example, Mars may have regions in its deep subsurface permafrost that could harbor endolith communities.

Unbound free-floating planetary-mass bodies in the Milky Way may number in the trillions, with 100, 000 objects larger than Pluto for every main-sequence star .< ref > Nomads of the Galaxy, Louis E. Strigari, Matteo Barnabe, Philip J. Marshall, Roger D. Blandford ; estimates 700 objects > 10 < sup >- 6 </ sup > Solar masses (≈ a Mars mass ) per main sequence star between 0. 08 and 1 Solar mass, of which there are billions in the Milky Way .</ ref >

( The same terms may be used analogously in describing other eclipses, e. g., the antumbra of Deimos crossing Mars, or Phobos entering Mars's penumbra )

For a brief period in Mars ' history, it may have also been capable of forming life.

Mars may have gone through similar geological and hydrological processes as Earth and therefore might contain valuable mineral ores.

There is interest in colonizing Mars in part because life could have existed on Mars at some point in its history, and may even still exist in some parts of the planet.

Several potential methods of altering the climate of Mars may fall within humanity's technological capabilities, but at present the economic resources required to do so are far beyond that which any government or society is willing to allocate to the purpose.

** NASA announces that the Allan Hills 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, may contain evidence of primitive life-forms.

Captain Wilder approaches under a white flag and has a short discussion with Spender during which the archaeologist explains that if he manages to kill off the expedition it may delay human colonization of the planet for a few more years, possibly long enough that the expected nuclear war on Earth will protect Mars from human colonization completely.

( Venus, Mars, Europa, Titan, and Dione may also be volcanically active.

Martian dust devils can be up to fifty times as wide and ten times as high as terrestrial dust devils, and large ones may pose a threat to terrestrial technology sent to Mars.

Somewhat related to the recent detection of methane in the atmosphere of Mars, scientists reported, in June 2012, that measuring the ratio of hydrogen and methane levels on Mars may help determine the likelihood of life on Mars.

Terrestrial landscapes in which the role of biology in mediating surface processes can be definitively excluded are extremely rare, but may hold important information for understanding the geomorphology of other planets, such as Mars.

Folklorist Linda Degh suggests that writer-director Peter Hyams's 1978 film Capricorn One, which shows a hoaxed journey to Mars in a spacecraft that looks identical to the Apollo craft, may have given a boost to the hoax theory's popularity in the post-Vietnam War era.

It is believed that hypergolic fuel may have leaked past valves in the system during the cruise to Mars, allowing the fuel and oxidizer to combine prematurely before reaching the combustion chamber.

He may be related to Belenus and Cernunnos, and was equated in the Roman period with Mars.

However, a cursory glance at the Proto-Celtic lexicon reveals that * belatu-is reconstructible for Proto-Celtic with the meaning ‘ death ’ and that * kadro-is a reconstructible element meaning ‘ decorated .’ So the name Belatucadros may also be interpreted as a compound of two Gallic words descended from two Proto-Celtic elements * belatu-and * kadro-which together as a compound adjective would literally mean ‘ death-decorated .’ Indeed, this is hardly an original proposal for the meaning of the name of this god associated with Mars: MacCulloch as early as 1911 ( p135 ) glossed this god ’ s name as ‘ comely in slaughter ’.

The god Noadatus, equated with Mars in an inscription found at Mainz in Germany ( which was in Gaul in Roman times ) may be the same deity.

He cannot, e.g. compute the retrograde arc traveled by Mars, without also making suppositions about the earth's own motion.

Greek writers under Roman rule also recorded cult practices and beliefs pertaining to Mars under the name of Ares.

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.

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.

De Palma has also worked with composers Pino Donaggio ( Carrie, Home Movies, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out, Body Double, Raising Cain ), Ennio Morricone ( The Untouchables, Casualties of War, and Mission to Mars ) and Ryuichi Sakamoto ( Snake Eyes, Femme Fatale ).

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

In Indian tradition Fire is also linked to Surya or the Sun and Mangala or Mars, and with the south-east direction.

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.

Geology can also refer generally to the study of the solid features of any celestial body ( such as the geology of the Moon or Mars ).

Specialised terms such as selenology ( studies of the Moon ), areology ( of Mars ), etc., are also in use.

In the Solar System, Mars, Venus, and the moon Titan also exhibit greenhouse effects ; that on Venus is particularly large, due to its atmosphere, which consists mainly of dense carbon dioxide Titan has an anti-greenhouse effect, in that its atmosphere absorbs solar radiation but is relatively transparent to infrared radiation.

There are also signs of carbon dioxide eruptions from the southern polar ice cap of Mars.

* Planet Plane ( 1936 ) ( as John Beynon ; also known as The Space Machine and Stowaway to Mars )

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.

JPL also led the way in interplanetary exploration with the Mariner missions to Venus, Mars, and Mercury.

A crater on Mars and a promontorium on the Moon are also named in his honour.

* Jean-Baptiste Belley, also known as Mars

It also acts as a relay for communications between the Mars Exploration Rovers, Mars Science Laboratory, and the Phoenix lander to Earth.

Lectures on Mars are also given under auspices of the Dutch Astronomical Society.

It is also developing software projects, IT systems for the future martian habitat, with a Virtual Mars Base and remote access.

Another Mars Society Chapter is also in creation in Luxembourg.

The Mars Habitat Unit would also include a small pressurized rover that is stored in the lower deck area and assembled on the surface of Mars.