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Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the Solar System. The planet is named after Mars, the Roman god of war. It is also referred to as the "Red Planet" because of its reddish appearance, due to iron oxide prevalent on its surface.
Mars is a...
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| x The Martian Chronicles |
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The Martian Chronicles is a 1950 science fiction short story collection by Ray Bradbury that chronicles the colonization of Mars by humans fleeing from a troubled and eventually atomically devastated Earth, and the conflict between aboriginal...
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| x Total Recall |
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Total Recall is a 1990 American science fiction action film. The film features Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sharon Stone, based on the Philip K. Dick story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale". The film was directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by...
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| x Santa Claus Conquers the Martians |
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Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (also titled Santa Claus Defeats the Aliens) is a 1964 science fiction film that regularly appears on lists of the worst films ever made. It is regularly featured in the "bottom 100" list on the Internet Movie...
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| x Doom |
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Doom is a 2005 science fiction horror film, loosely based on the popular Doom series of video games created by id Software. It was directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak and was released in the United States on October 21, 2005 and in the United Kingdom on...
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| x The Angry Red Planet |
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The Angry Red Planet (aka Invasion of Mars and Journey to Planet Four) is a 1959 science fiction film starring Gerald Mohr and directed by Ib Melchior. The director was given only 10 days to shoot the movie and a budget of $200,000 with which to...
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| x It! The Terror from Beyond Space |
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It! The Terror from Beyond Space is a 1958 black and white science fiction film directed by Edward L. Cahn.
The film opens with a classic 1950s version of a spaceship (three tail fins, long, pointed body) perched on the cratered surface of an alien...
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| x Ghosts of Mars |
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John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars is a 2001 movie directed by John Carpenter.
Set in the second half of the 22nd century, in the year 2176, the film depicts Mars as a planet that has been 84% terraformed, allowing humans to walk on the surface without...
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| x Mission to Mars |
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Mission to Mars is a 2000 science fiction movie directed by Brian de Palma about a rescue mission to Mars following a disaster during the first manned voyage to the planet. The film was partially inspired by the Disney Attraction of the same name....
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| x Red Planet |
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Red Planet is a 2000 science fiction film directed by Antony Hoffman, starring Carrie-Anne Moss and Val Kilmer. It was released on November 6, 2000.
In A.D. 2045, the Planet Earth is in ecologic crisis as a consequence of pollution and...
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| x Robinson Crusoe on Mars |
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Robinson Crusoe on Mars is a 1964 Techniscope science fiction film retelling of the classic novel by Daniel Defoe. It was directed by Byron Haskin, produced by Aubrey Schenck and starred Paul Mantee, Victor Lundin and Adam West. It was released on...
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| x Aelita |
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Aelita (Russian: Аэлита), also known as Aelita: Queen of Mars, is a silent film directed by Soviet filmmaker Yakov Protazanov made on Mezhrabpom-Rus film studio and released in 1924. It was based on Alexei Tolstoy's novel of the same name. Mikhail...
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| x Flight to Mars |
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Flight to Mars (1951) is a Cinecolor science fiction film, written for the screen by Arthur Strawn, produced by Walter Mirisch for Monogram Pictures (which also distributed) and directed by Lesley Selander. The film features Cameron Mitchell, Arthur...
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| x Amy Wong |
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Amy Wong is a fictional character, one of the main characters from the Fox television animated series Futurama. She is studying engineering at Mars University, and to help her with her studies she works as an intern at Planet Express (supposedly...
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| x Michael Garibaldi |
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Michael Garibaldi is a lead fictional character in the universe of the science fiction television series Babylon 5, played by Jerry Doyle.
During most of Babylon 5's five seasons, Garibaldi is the Chief of Security on board the space station Babylon...
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| x Jeffrey Sinclair |
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Jeffrey Sinclair is a character in the fictional universe of the science fiction television series Babylon 5. He was a regular in the first season of the show, as Commander of the Babylon 5 station, and made a number of guest appearances afterward....
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| x Olympus Mons |
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Olympus Mons (Latin for "Mount Olympus") is the tallest known volcano and mountain in the Solar System and was formed during the Amazonian epoch. It is located on the planet Mars at approximately 18°N 133°W / 18, -133. It is three times as tall as...
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| x Valles Marineris |
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Valles Marineris (Latin for Mariner Valleys, named after the Mariner 9 Mars orbiter of 1971–72 which discovered it) is system that runs along the Martian east of the Tharsis region. At more than 4,000 km long, 200 km wide and up to 7 km deep, the...
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| x Phobos |
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Phobos (pronounced /ˈfoʊbəs/ FOE-bəs, or as Greek Φόβος) (systematic designation: Mars I) is the larger and closer of two small moons of Mars, the other being Deimos. It is named after the Greek god Phobos (which means "fear"), a son of Ares (Mars)....
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| x Deimos |
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Deimos (pronounced /ˈdaɪməs/ DYE-məs; also /ˈdiːməs/ DEE-məs, as in Greek Δείμος), is the smaller and outer of Mars’ two moons (the other being Phobos). It is named after Deimos, a figure representing dread in Greek Mythology. Its systematic...
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| x Phoenix Mars Mission |
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Phoenix was a robotic spacecraft on a space exploration mission on Mars under the Mars Scout Program. The Phoenix lander descended on Mars on May 25, 2008. Mission scientists used instruments aboard the lander to search for environments suitable for...
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| x Mars Polar Lander |
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Mars Polar Lander (sometimes referenced as the Mars Surveyor '98 Lander) is one of two exploration vehicles of the NASA Mars Surveyor '98 program. Launched on 3 January 1999, 23 days after its partner, the Mars Climate Orbiter, the mission ended in...
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| x Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter |
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is a multipurpose spacecraft designed to conduct reconnaissance and exploration of Mars from orbit.
When MRO entered orbit there were five other spacecraft in orbit of or on Mars: Mars Global Surveyor, Mars...
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| x Mars Exploration Rover |
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Mission is an ongoing robotic mission of exploring Mars, that began in 2003 with the sending of two rovers — MER-A Spirit and MER-B Opportunity — to explore the Martian surface and geology.
Primary among the...
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| x Mars Pathfinder |
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The Mars Pathfinder (MESUR Pathfinder) later called The Carl Sagan Memorial Station was launched on December 4, 1996 by NASA aboard a Delta II just a month after the Mars Global Surveyor was launched. After a 7-month voyage it landed on Ares Vallis,...
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| x Spirit rover |
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Spirit, mission designation MER-A (Mars Exploration Rover - A), is the first of the two rovers of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Mission. It landed successfully on Mars on 04:35 Ground UTC on January 4, 2004, three weeks before its twin Opportunity ...
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| x Opportunity rover |
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Opportunity, mission designation MER-B (Mars Exploration Rover - B), is the second of the two rovers of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Mission. It landed successfully at Meridiani Planum on Mars on January 25, 2004 05:05 Ground UTC (circa 13:15 local...
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| x Mariner 4 |
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Mariner 4 (together with Mariner 3 known as Mariner-Mars 1964) was the fourth in a series of spacecraft, launched on November 28, 1964, intended for planetary exploration in a flyby mode and performed the first successful flyby of the planet Mars,...
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Mariner 3 and 4 were identical spacecraft of the Mariner program designed to carry out the first flybys of Mars and obtain photographs of the planet's surface. Mariner 3 was launched on November 5, 1964 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch...
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| x Stranger in a Strange Land |
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Stranger in a Strange Land is a best-selling 1961 Hugo Award-winning science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein. It tells the story of Valentine Michael Smith, a human raised by Martians on the planet Mars, upon his return to Earth in early...
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| x Marvin the Martian |
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Marvin the Martian (or Marvin Martian) is a fictional character appearing in the Looney Tunes cartoons. Despite appearing in only five of the original shorts, Marvin has developed a cult following. Marvin's likeness appears in miniature on both the...
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Mr. Martian (AKA: CH'kk Kk'xx - Chuck Cox) is a fictional character in Big Bang Comics, who first appeared in Big Bang #21, but didn't receive his own story until World Class Comics #1.
CH'kk Kk'xx is a Martian originally sent to investigate planet...
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Candor Chasma is one of the largest canyons in the Valles Marineris canyon system on Mars. The feature is geographically divided into two halves: East and West Candor Chasmas, respectively. It is unclear how the canyon originally formed; one theory...
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| x Capri Chasma | ||
| x Ceti Chasma | ||
| x Planum Australe |
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Planum Australe (Latin: "the southern plain") is the southern polar plain on Mars. It extends southward of roughly 75°S and is centered at 83°54′S 160°00′E / 83.9°S 160.0°E / -83.9; 160.0. The geology of this region was to be explored by the...
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| x Planum Boreum |
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Planum Boreum (Latin: "the northern plain") is the northern polar plain on Mars. It extends northward from roughly 80°N and is centered at 88°00′N 15°00′E / 88.0°N 15.0°E / 88.0; 15.0. Surrounding the high polar plain is a flat and featureless...
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| x Coprates Chasma | ||
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Echus Chasma is a chasma in the Lunae Planum high plateau north of the Valles Marineris canyon system of Mars.
Echus Chasma is approximately 100 km long and 10 km wide, with valleys ranging in depth from around 1 km to 4 km.
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Eos Chasma is a chasma in the southern part of the Valles Marineris canyon system of Mars.
Eos Chasma’s western floor is mainly composed of an etched massive material composed of either volcanic or eolian deposits later eroded by the Martian wind....
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The Ganges Chasma is a deep canyon at the eastern end of the vast Valles Marineris system on Mars, an offshoot of Eos Chasma. It is named after the River Ganges in South Asia.
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| x Hebes Chasma |
Hebes Chasma is an isolated chasma just north of the Valles Marineris canyon system of Mars. It is located at 1 degree southern latitude and 76 degrees western longitude, just between the Martian equator and the Valles Marineris system, just east of...
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| x Hyblaeus Chasma | ||
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| x Juventae Chasma |
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Juventae Chasma is an enormous box canyon (250 km × 100 km) on Mars which opens to the north and forms the outflow channel Maja Vallis.
Juventae Chasma is located north of Valles Marineris and cuts more than 5 km into the plains of Lunae Planum. The...
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| x Melas Chasma |
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Melas Chasma is a canyon on Mars, the widest segment of the Valles Marineris canyon system, located east of Ius Chasma at 9.8°S, 283.6°E. It cuts through layered deposits that are thought to be sediments from an old lake that resulted from runoff of...
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| x Ophir Chasma | ||
| x Pavonis Chasma | ||
| x Promethei Chasma | ||
| x Tithonium Chasma | ||
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| x Alba Patera |
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Alba Mons is an enormous shield volcano to the north of the Tharsis region of Mars. The volcano's crater is named Alba Patera.
Alba Mons is roughly 1600 kilometers in diameter but only ~6 kilometers tall at its highest point. It is the largest...
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The Tharsis region on Mars is an enormous volcanic plateau located on Mars' equator, at the western end of Valles Marineris. Its name comes from the Bible, where it was the name for the land at western extremity of the known world. (See also...
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| x Arabia Terra |
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Arabia Terra is a large upland region in the north of Mars in that lies mostly in the Arabia quadrangle. It is densely cratered and heavily eroded. This battered topography indicates great age, and Arabia Terra is presumed to be one of the oldest...
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