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| | Mars (mythology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The planet Mars and the male sex are both commonly represented by the astronomical or gender symbol ♂, which originally represented the shield and spear of Mars and was popularized as the alchemical symbol for iron. | | | The blood-red fourth planet in the Solar System, Mars, was also named after Mars; an adjective form of Mars, Martian (from Martianus), is most commonly used in reference to the planet. | | | Mars was also one of the three supreme Roman deities of the Archaic Triad, along with Jupiter and Quirinus. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_(god)
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| | Mars |
| | The presence of methane on Mars would be very intriguing, since as an unstable gas it indicates that there must be (or have been within the last few hundred years) a source of the gas on the planet. | | | Observations of the magnetic fields on Mars by the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft have revealed that parts of the planet's crust has been magnetized. | | | While other designs have been proposed, the republican tricolor has been adopted by the Mars Society as its own official banner. |
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http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/m/ma/mars.html
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| | Exploration of Mars Encyclopedia Article @ LaunchBase.net (Launch Base) |
| | Mars is a rocky planet, like Earth, that formed around the same time, yet it is only between one-quarter and one-third the surface area and its surface is cold and desert-like. | | | The Soviet Union went to Mars again in 1988 with the Phobos 1 and 2 probes to study the planet and its moons Phobos and Deimos. | | | Shortly after the launch of Mars Express, NASA sent a pair of twin rovers toward the planet as part of the Mars Exploration Rover Mission. |
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http://www.launchbase.net/encyclopedia/Exploration_of_Mars
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| | ESA - Mars Express - The mission |
| | Mars Express has completed its nominal mission lifetime and has been in orbit around the Red Planet for one Martian year, 687 Earth days. | | | Having escaped the Earth's pull, Mars Express was sent on course for the Red Planet, cruising at a velocity of 10 800 kilometres and hour, relative to Earth. | | | During each orbit, Mars Express spends some time turned towards the planet for instrument observations and some time turned towards Earth for communications with ground stations. |
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http://www.esa.int/export/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/SEMNS75V9ED_0.html
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| | CBC News - Indepth: Space: Mars |
| | Even if life at one point flourished on Mars, it may have died off as the planet dried out. | | | Mars is the fourth planet from the sun and has often been called a sister planet to our own Earth. | | | But it has not lost its appeal; in fact, we now know the surface of Mars almost as well as we know the deserts of our own planet. |
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/space/mars_index.html
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| | MARS - ENCHANTED LEARNING SOFTWARE |
| | Mars, the red planet, is the fourth planet from the sun and the most Earth-like planet in our solar system. | | | Mars was named after the Roman god of war. | | | A 100-pound person on Mars would weigh 38 pounds. |
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http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/mars
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| | The Planets: Understanding Astrology - astrology.com |
| | Mars rules our sexuality and sexual energy, and governs weapons, accidents and surgery (the last two illustrating the yin and yang nature of this Planet). | | | Mars is the action Planet of the Zodiac. | | | This Planet commands you (and yes, Mars does rule the military) to stand up, be noticed and get things done -- sitting on the sidelines belongs somewhere else in the heavens. |
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http://www.astrology.com/aboutastrology/interpreting/planets/mars.html
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| | CNN.com - Earth braces for Mars close encounter - Aug. 26, 2003 |
| | "Mars fever has caught, not only for amateur astronomers, who are getting their best look at the planet ever and that we'll ever have in our life, but also for professionals, as you know, with the [NASA] Mars Rovers and other spacecraft that are en route," said David Eicher, editor of Astronomy magazine. | | | Looking to the skies for the best view of the planet Mars in 60,000 years | | | About every 26 months, the two planets pass relatively close to one another, during periods now known as opposition. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/08/26/mars.closeup
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| | ORRERY: Mars - the red planet |
| | Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun. | | | Like Earth, Venus, and Mercury, Mars is a rocky planet, but is relatively small, being between Mercury and Venus in size. | | | The possibility of water on Mars will spur us on to explore our neighbouring world, on which life could once have started and may even still exist today. |
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http://www.harmsy.freeuk.com/mars.html
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| | BBC NEWS In Depth Race for Mars |
| | Europe's Mars probe sends back an 'aircraft view' of the planet | | | Postcards from Mars show the Red Planet in a brand new light | | | 1997: Mars Sojourner buggy starts exploring the Red Planet |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2003/race_for_mars/default.stm
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| | MarsNews.com :: NewsWire for the New Frontier |
| | Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Begins Aerobraking The Planetary Society | | | The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) began the six-month aerobraking phase with rehearsals or drag passes last Friday and tomorrow night the spacecraft will dip down for its first "taste" of the Red Planet's atmosphere. | | | The most advanced spacecraft to reach Mars has begun adjusting its orbit so that it can study the planet in detail this fall, scientists said Friday. |
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http://www.marsnews.com
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| | Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Planets |
| | Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun and neighbor to Earth, catches our interest and imagination in scientific fact and fiction. | | | Satellite views taken by the Mars Global Surveyor show dried gullies, which may indicate that Mars had streams and shallow seas millions of years ago. | | | Since scientists consider water a key ingredient to the formation of life, possible signs of ancient water lead researchers to hunt for clues that microbial life, invisible to the human eye, may have once existed on the planet. |
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http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/solar_system/planets/mars_index.html
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| | StarDate Online Solar System Guide Mars |
| | The farthest of the terrestrial planets from the Sun, Mars orbits between Earth and the asteroid belt. | | | The planet's surface is red because iron in its soil long ago reacted with the tiny amount of oxygen left on Mars to produce rust. | | | Scientists, too, have speculated about the possibility of life on Mars. |
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http://stardate.org/resources/ssguide/mars.html
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| | NASA - Approaching Mars |
| | Between now and August, Mars will brighten until it "blazes forth against the dark background of space with a splendor that outshines Sirius and rivals the giant Jupiter himself." Astronomer Percival Lowell, who famously mapped the canals of Mars, wrote those words to describe the planet during a similar close encounter in the 19th century. | | | Much has been made of the fact that the August 27th encounter with Mars is the closest in some 60,000 years. | | | It won't be long before everyone can see Mars at a civilized hour. |
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http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/watchtheskies/18jun_approachingmars.html
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| | Holger Isenberg's Mars News |
| | Mars was tidal locked in orbit of this planet, like the Moon to Earth, which deformed Mars and caused higher water concentrations at two antipodal regions at the equator. | | | According to the Lectures Programme the latest results from the Planetary Fourier Spectrometer on Mars Express are discussed, which might be about the possible discovery of ammonia, formaldehyde and other gases indicating biological activity. | | | This paper is about the model of Mars as a former moon of the exploded planet in the orbit of todays asteroid-belt. |
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| | Mars rovers showing signs of age CNET News.com |
| | Bell and his team have captured images of an eclipse on Mars (where the Martian moon Phobos gets obscured by the shadow of the planet) and what appears to be a meteor shower. | | | Spirit and Opportunity, the two robotic vehicles roving the red planet, have lasted more than 22 months, far longer than anyone anticipated, said scientists and program managers from the Mars rover program speaking at the American Geophysical Union, an annual conference of earth scientists taking place here this week. | | | Mars likely had large bodies of water on its surface 3.5 billion years ago, but climatic changes dried up the vast majority of it, said Gerhard Neukum at the Free University in Berlin. |
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http://news.com.com/Mars+rovers+showing+signs+of+age/2100-11397_3-5983226.html
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| | Face On Mars Encyclopedia Article @ LocalColorArt.com (Local Color Art) |
| | The Face on Mars is a large feature on the surface of the planet Mars located in the Cydonia region, thought by many to resemble a human face. | | | The popular TV show Futurama portrays the face of Mars as the entrance to the center of the planet where the ancient Martians live. | | | This picture is one of many taken in the northern latitudes of Mars by the Viking 1 Orbiter in search of a landing site for Viking 2. |
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http://localcolorart.com/encyclopedia/Face_on_Mars
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| | Approaching Mars |
| | Earth is racing toward Mars at a speed of 23,500 mph, which means the red planet is getting bigger and brighter by the minute. | | | June 6, 2005: By the time you finish reading this sentence, you'll be 25 miles closer to the planet Mars. | | | In October, when the two planets are closest together, Mars will outshine everything in the night sky except Venus and the Moon. |
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http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/27may_approachingmars.htm
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| | Mars [encyclopedia] |
| | Since Mars and the sun appear on opposite sides of the sky, we say that Mars is in "opposition." If Earth and Mars followed perfectly circular orbits, opposition would be as close as the two planets could get. | | | Over the past centuries, Mars' orbit has been getting more and more elongated, carrying the planet even nearer to the sun at perihelion and even farther away at aphelion. | | | If Earth and Mars both had perfectly stable orbits, then each perihelic opposition would bring the two planets as close as they could be. |
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http://www.kosmoi.com/Science/Astronomy/Solar/Mars
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| | :: NASA Quest > Archives :: |
| | The Mars Pathfinder spacecraft blasted away in December and landed on the Red Planet on July 4, 1997. | | | On July 20, 1996, a workshop was held in Washington DC for teachers participating in Live From Mars, the precursor to Mars Team Online. | | | The Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft took off in November and reached the orbit of Mars on September 11, 1997 to begin an orbital mission that will provide detailed mapping and weather information. |
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| | Party on MARS |
| | Don't ask me WHY I decided to have my birthday party at MARS2112. | | | And as John quickly announced, "I've heard of Mars Bars, but THIS is ridiculous!" And he wasnt so far from wrong when "Captain Orion", one of the MARS costumed characters walked in. | | | On screen, fake MARS TV is showing a lady alien doing a sort of martian hula dance which is how they do the weather report on MARS apparently. |
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| | APOD: 2003 August 27 - Big Mars from Hubble |
| | Mars Watch 2003 campaign, where local telescopes will zoom in on the red planet. | | | This image is the most detailed view of Mars ever taken from Earth. | | | Universal Time today, Mars and Earth will pass closer than in nearly 60,000 years. |
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| | Mars Today |
| | This circle represents the largest possible apparent size of Mars as viewed from Earth (which is achieved only on those very rare occasions -- like the one earlier this year -- when the planets are both favorably positioned at the nearest points in their orbits). | | | In contrast, it is late winter in the northern hemisphere of Mars and the sun is approaching that planet's equator. | | | Mars Today, created by Howard Houben of the Mars Global Circulation Model Group, is a poster produced daily by the Center for Mars Exploration at NASA's Ames Research Center. |
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| | NASA's Solar System Exploration: Planets: Mars: Overview |
| | The red planet Mars has inspired wild flights of imagination over the centuries, as well as intense scientific interest. | | | SSE Home > Planets > Mars > Overview | | | Whether fancied to be the source of hostile invaders of Earth, the home of a dying civilization, or a rough-and-tumble mining colony of the future, Mars provides fertile ground for science fiction writers, based on seeds planted by centuries of scientific observations. |
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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Mars
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| | Seek 'Planet' related info here. |
| | Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the seventh largest: orbit: 227,940,000 km (1.52 AU) from Sun diameter: 6,794 km mass: 6.4219e23 kg Hardcopy. | | | TRIVIA: Planet Trivia Results for January 28th 6:53 PM CST by: Michael "TYP" Cole With invalid questions and a bumbling host, Friday's trivia wasn't the | | | This is the online home of Punk Planet magazine. |
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| | ESA Science & Technology: Mars Express |
| | Mars Express, so called because of the rapid and streamlined development time, represents ESA's first visit to another planet in the Solar System. | | | Spectral Reflectance and Morphologic Correlations in Eastern Terra Meridiani, Mars | | | Tropical to mid-latitude snow and ice accumulation, flow and glaciation on Mars |
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| | Mars |
| | Mars, Earth's outer neighbor, is the fourth planet from the Sun. | | | Mars' bright appearance and reddish color stand out in the night sky. | | | Impressive surface features such as enormous volcanoes and valleys are frequently obscured by huge dust storms. |
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http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/mars/mars.html
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| | Mars (planet) Encyclopedia Article @ LaunchBase.net (Launch Base) |
| | Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in our solar system. | | | Dozens of spacecraft, including orbiters, landers, and rovers, have been sent to Mars by the Soviet Union, the United States, Europe, and Japan to study the planet's surface, climate, and geography. | | | Until the arrival of planetary probes, the traditional view of Mars derived from the astronomers Percival Lowell and Giovanni Schiaparelli, whose observation of supposedly linear features on the planet created the myth of canals on Mars. |
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http://www.launchbase.net/encyclopedia/Mars_(planet)
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| | Red Mars (computer game) |
| | Explore the Planet Mars Realistic, interactive, 3D walk-though of a Mars base desgined for the first humans to land on Mars including a Mars habitat, greenhouse, Mars car and robot rovers. | | | computer game computer game cheats serie computer game computer game news trail computer game planete mars spirit mars planet mars sailor mars planet mars news viewing mars observatory pyramids mars face public viewing mars | | | Mars Today Mars Today, created by Howard Houben of the Mars Global Circulation Model Group, is a poster produced daily by the Center for Mars Exploration at NASA's Ames Research Center. |
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http://www.serebella.com/encyclopedia/article-Red_Mars_(computer_game).html
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| | marsretro.html |
| | The planets, Mars through and including Pluto, will have a longer period of retrograde, than Mercury or Venus simply because their orbits are much larger that these two smaller planets found inside Earth's orbit. | | | Mars has an orbit of 22 months around the Sun. | | | Even though we can't see the energy and turbulence as a the planet in orbit affects a slower moving planet in its orbit, the 'turbulence' is still the same. |
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http://www.astrology-toronto-inc.com/marsretro.html
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