Mars (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Businesses and products 2 Literature 3 Television and film 4 Music 5 Military 6 Technology 7 Places 8 Surname 9 See also

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun.

Mars or MARS may also refer to:

• Mars (astrology), a set of qualities and influences
• Mars (mythology), the Roman god of war
• MARS (oceanography), an acronym for Monterey Accelerated Research System, a cabled-based ocean observatory in Monterey Bay, California.
• Mars symbol, ♂

[edit] Businesses and products

• Mumbai Amateur Radio Society, an amateur radio club operating in Mumbai
• Mars, Incorporated, a confectioner
  • Mars family, the family that owns the above business
  • Mars Bar, a chocolate bar produced by Mars, Inc.
• MARS Grocery Chain, a U.S. grocery chain
• Mars, a now defunct German motorcycle manufacturer
• Mars Music, a now defunct U.S. music store chain
• The Lego Group produced two independent and unconnected toy lines based on Mars, both involving peaceful human exploration, and the hostile Martian aliens found there:
  • Life on Mars (2001, 14 sets total)
  • Mars Mission (2007-present, 11 sets when first released)

[edit] Literature

• Mars (Fritz Zorn), an autobiographical essay by Fritz Angst
• Mars (manga), manga comic book
• Mars trilogy, three science fiction novels by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Mars, a novel by Ben Bova in the Grand Tour series
• The Megaversity Association for Reenactments and Simulations, in Neal Stephenson's novel The Big U

[edit] Television and film

• Mars (2004 film), a 2004 Russian film
• Mars (TV series), a 2004 Taiwanese TV series based on the manga Mars
• Mars, a dMp choujin from Ultimate Muscle
• Mars (actor), member of the Jackie Chan Stunt Team
• Mars, a 1998 movie starring Shari Belafonte
• Mars the Dog, canine star of A Dog's Breakfast
• Veronica Mars, US-American TV series (2004-2007)
• Eyes of Laura Mars, US-American horror film (1978)
• Mars (Biker Mice from Mars), the planet as it appears in the cartoon series
• Sailor Mars or Rei Hino, one of the Sailor Senshi from the anime/manga, Sailor Moon
• Mission to Mars, a 2000 film
• Life on Mars (TV series) British TV series (taking it's name from the David Bowie song, see below)

[edit] Music

• Mars (band), a short-lived No Wave band
• 30 Seconds to Mars, an alternative rock band featuring actor Jared Leto
• Mars (album), an album by Gackt
• "Mars, the Bringer of War", a movement in Holst's The Planets
• Mars, disk two of the Red Hot Chili Peppers double album Stadium Arcadium
• The Mars Volta, an American Musical Band.
• Life on Mars?, a 1971 single by David Bowie

[edit] Military

• USS Mars (AFS-1), a supply ship in the United States Pacific Fleet
• HMS Mars (1794), 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy
• Mars Automatic Pistol, a semi-automatic pistol developed in 1900
• ITL MARS, a holographic weapon sight made by International Technologies Lasers
• Operation Mars, codename of the Second Rzhev-Sychevka Offensive, a Soviet offensive during World War II
• Military Affiliate Radio System, an auxiliary communications system for the United States armed forces
• Memory Array Redcode Simulator, a machine that simulates a Corewar battle
• JRM Mars, flying boat

[edit] Technology

• MARS (cryptography), a block cipher that was IBM's submission to the Advanced Encryption Standard process.
• Mars probe program, a series of unmanned craft launched by the Soviet Union in the early 1970s
• MARS (ticket reservation system), a train seat reservation system used in Japan
• MARS Group, a British architectural think tank founded in 1933
• MaRS Discovery District, a scientific research centre in Toronto
• Mars computer, a family of PDP-10-compatible digital computers built by Systems Concepts
• Mars Tension-leg Platform, the largest oil drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico
• MARS, or Molecular Adsorbents Recirculation System for liver dialysis
• Mars, a West Cornwall Railway locomotive
• Mars, the code name of Adobe Systems' PDF in XML
• Project Mars, Sega's 32X add-on video game console
• MARS, Monitoring, Analysis and Response System by Cisco Systems provides security monitoring for network security devices and host applications
• Multiple Active Results Sets, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 technology used to provide simultaneous access to multiple data sets per connection
• Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS), a space launch site colocated with NASA Wallops Space Flight Facility on Wallops Island, south of Chincoteague, VA.

[edit] Places

• Mars, Pennsylvania, U.S.
• Stade 26 mars, a stadium in Mali
• Mars, Ardèche, Ardèche, France
• Mars, Gard, Gard, France
• Mars, Loire, Loire, France
• Mars-la-Tour, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France
• Mars-sous-Bourcq, Ardennes, France
• Mars-sur-Allier, Nièvre, France
• Mars, slang for Marseille, as popularised by the French hip hop group IAM
• MARS Laboratory(Mechatronic and Robotic Systems Laboratory)[1], University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada

[edit] Surname

• Ed Mars (1866–1941), American baseball player
• Forrest Mars Jr., confectionery magnate
• Forrest Mars Sr. (1904–1999), confectionery magnate
• Franklin Clarence Mars (1883–1934), confectionery magnate
• Jacqueline Mars, confectionery magnate
• John Mars, confectionery magnate
• Keith Mars, fictional TV character
• Kenneth Mars, (born 1936), actor
• Lianne Mars, fictional TV character
• Mademoiselle Mars (1779–1847), French actress
• Veronica Mars (character), fictional TV character

[edit] See also

• MARRS
• Mars Hill (disambiguation)