Mars (disambiguation)

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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 symbol (♂)
• March (month), mars in several other languages, named for the Roman god
• Mars, conjugation form of the verb "to mar"

Places

In France

• Mars, slang for Marseille, as popularised by the French hip hop group IAM
• Mars, Ardèche, France
• Mars, Gard, France
• Mars, Loire, France
• Mars-la-Tour, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France
• Mars-sous-Bourcq, Ardennes, France
• Mars-sur-Allier, Nièvre, France

In Mali

• Stade 26 mars, a stadium in Mali

In the United States

• Mars, California, former name of Outingdale, California
• Mars, Nebraska, a ghost town
• Mars, Pennsylvania

People

• Mars (surname)
• Jean-Baptiste Belley, also known as Mars
• Mars (rapper), stage name of Mario Delgado, a horrorcore rapper
• Mars (record producer), moniker of Lamar Edwards from production teams 1500 or Nothin' and Smash Factory
• Mars family, the family that owns Mars, Incorporated
• Alastair Mars (1915–1985), Royal Navy officer
• Bruno Mars, musician
• Mick Mars, lead guitarist for Mötley Crüe
• Xueyang "Mars" Ma, member of Mandopop boy band Top Combine

Art, entertainment, and media

Also see: Mars in fiction

Fictional entities

• Military Armament Research Syndicate, a fictional organization in the G.I. Joe universe
• The Megaversity Association for Reenactments and Simulations, in Neal Stephenson's novel The Big U

Film and television

• The Angry Red Planet (or Invasion of Mars and Journey to Planet Four), a 1959 science fiction film
• Commander Mars, one of the Galactic Commanders from Pokémon
• Mars or Scarface (Kinnikuman), a dMp choujin from Ultimate Muscle
• Mars (1930 film), a 1930 animated short film
• Mars (1968 film), a 1968 film
• Mars (1997 film), a 1997 movie starring Shari Belafonte
• Mars (2004 film), a 2004 Russian film
• Mars (2010 film), a 2010 animated film
• Mars (TV series), a 2004 Taiwanese drama series based on the manga by Fuyumi Soryo
• Mars (Philippine TV series), a female talk show on GMA News TV
• Mars (actor), member of the Jackie Chan Stunt Team
• Mars the Dog, canine star of A Dog's Breakfast
• Mars (Biker Mice from Mars), the planet as it appears in the cartoon series
• Mars Blackmon, a character who appeared in She's Gotta Have It and commercials for Air Jordan shoes
• Sailor Mars, a fictional character in the Sailor Moon media franchise
• Veronica Mars, a television series (2004–2007)
  • Veronica Mars (character), its heroine
  • Keith Mars, her father
  • Lianne Mars, her mother

Games

• Project Mars, Sega's 32X add-on video game console
• Memory Array Redcode Simulator, the environment for the competitive programming game Core Wars

Literature

• Mars (Fritz Zorn), an autobiographical essay by Fritz Angst
• Mars (manga), a 1996 manga series by Fuyumi Soryo
• Mars trilogy, three science fiction novels by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Mars, a novel by Ben Bova in the Grand Tour series
• Mars (Mitsuteru Yokoyama), a 1976 manga series by Mitsuteru Yokoyama

Music

Groups

• Mars (band), a short-lived No Wave band
• Mars Ill, a Christian hip-hop duo
• M.A.R.S., a heavy metal supergroup that released the album Project Driver (1986)

Albums

• Mars (B'z album)
• Mars (Gackt album)
• Mars, disk two of the Red Hot Chili Peppers double album Stadium Arcadium
• Mars, debut album of Sinkane

Songs and movements

• Mars (song), a single by Fake Blood
• "Mars, the Bringer of War", a movement in Holst's The Planets
• "Mars", a song by Soulfly on their album Prophecy

Businesses, organizations, and products

• Mars (beer), a type of lambic ale
• Mars (chocolate bar), produced by Mars, Inc.
• Mars (motorcycle), a now defunct German motorcycle manufacturer
• MARS (oceanography), an acronym for Monterey Accelerated Research System, a cabled-based ocean observatory in Monterey Bay, California
• Mars (oil platform), the largest oil drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico
• Mars (supermarket), a U.S. grocery chain
• Icaro Mars, an Italian hang glider design
• MaRS Discovery District, a scientific research centre in Toronto
• MARS Group, a British architectural think tank founded in 1933
• Mars, Incorporated, a confectioner and food company
• Mars Music, a now defunct U.S. music store chain
• Mauritius Amateur Radio Society
• Mongolian Amateur Radio Society
• Mumbai Amateur Radio Society

Mathematics and technology

• MARS (cryptography), a block cipher that was IBM's submission to the Advanced Encryption Standard process
• MARS (ticket reservation system), a train seat reservation system used in Japan
• Cisco Security Monitoring, Analysis, and Response System (MARS)
• Mars computer, a family of PDP-10-compatible digital computers built by Systems Concepts
• Mars probe program, a series of unmanned craft launched by the Soviet Union in the early 1970s
• Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS), a space launch site colocated with NASA Wallops Space Flight Facility on Wallops Island, south of Chincoteague, VA
• Multiple Active Results Sets, a technique used within Microsoft's SQL Server database management system to enable database connections to be used for multiple purposes
• Multivariate adaptive regression splines, a regression analysis technique
• Mars, the code name of Adobe Systems' PDF in XML

Medicine and biology

• MARS (gene), a human enzyme
• MARS, or Molecular Adsorbents Recirculation System for liver dialysis

Military

• French ship Mars, several French warships
• HMS Mars, several ships of the name
  • HMS Mars (1794), 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy
• ITL MARS, a reflex sight made by International Technologies Lasers
• JRM Mars, flying boat
• M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (Mobiles Artillerie Raketen System), used in the Bundeswehr
• Mars Automatic Pistol, a semi-automatic pistol developed in 1900
• MARS tanker (Military Afloat Reach and Sustainability), a programme to buy new tanker ships for the Royal Fleet Auxiliary
• Military Auxiliary Radio System, an auxiliary communications system of amateur radio operators for the United States armed forces
• Operation Mars, codename of the Second Rzhev-Sychevka Offensive, a Soviet offensive during World War II
• SMS Mars, two ships of the name
• Swedish warship Mars, a Swedish warship sunk in 1564
• USS Mars, several ships of the name
  • USS Mars (AFS-1), a supply ship in the United States Pacific Fleet

Transportation

• Mars (Metra) a station on Metra's Milwaukee District/West in Chicago, Illinois
• Mars, a West Cornwall Railway locomotive

See also

• Champ de Mars (disambiguation)
• Field of Mars (disambiguation)
• Fourth planet (disambiguation)
• MARRS, the artist who produced Pump Up the Volume
• Mars 1 (disambiguation)
• Mars II (disambiguation)
• Mars Hill (disambiguation)
• Mars station (disambiguation)
• Martian (disambiguation)
• Marcia (disambiguation)