Mars (disambiguation)

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 (♂)

Places

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

United States

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

Elsewhere

• Stade 26 mars, a stadium in Mali
• Mars Glacier, Alexander Island, Antarctica

People

Surname

• Mars (surname)
  • Mars family, the family that owns Mars, Incorporated

Nickname/Stagename

• Jean-Baptiste Belley (1740s–1805), also known as Mars
• Xueyang "Mars" Ma, member of Mandopop boy band Top Combine
• Mars (actor) (born 1954), member of the Jackie Chan Stunt Team
• Mars (rapper) (born 1980), stage name of Mario Delgado, a horrorcore rapper
• Mars (record producer), moniker of Lamar Edwards from production teams 1500 or Nothin' and Smash Factory

Given name

• Mars Bonfire (born 1943), Canadian musician and songwriter
• Mars Di Bartolomeo (born 1952), Luxembourgish politician

Art, entertainment, and media

See also: Mars in fiction

Fictional characters

• Veronica Mars (character), heroine of Veronica Mars
• Keith Mars, father of Veronica Mars from Veronica Mars
• Lianne Mars, mother of Veronica Mars from Veronica Mars
• 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
• Commander Mars, a Pokémon character
• Mars or Scarface, an Ultimate Muscle character

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
• Mars (Doctor Who), a planet in the Doctor Who fictional universe
• Mars (Biker Mice from Mars), the planet as it appears in the cartoon series

Film and television

• 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 (miniseries), a 2016 television miniseries, about the first people to land on the planet Mars, in the year 2033.
• Mars (Taiwanese 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

Games

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

Literature

• Mars (Fritz Zorn), a 1976 autobiographical essay by Fritz Angst
• Mars (comics), a comic book series
• 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, 1976 manga series by Mitsuteru Yokoyama

Music

Groups

• Mars (band), a short-lived No Wave band
• Mars Ill, a Christian hip-hop duo
• Mars Red Sky, a French rock band
• 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 2008 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 defunct German motorcycle manufacturer
• MARS (oceanography), Monterey Accelerated Research System, a cabled-based ocean observatory in Monterey Bay, California
• Mars (oil platform), an 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, Mumbai, India

Mathematics, science, technology

• MARS (cryptography), a block cipher by IBM's submission
• MARS (ticket reservation system), a train seat reservation system used in Japan
• Cisco Security Monitoring, Analysis, and Response System, a security monitoring tool for network devices
• 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
• Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS), a space launch site on Wallops Island, Virginia
• Mars Analogue Research Station Program (MARS) of The Mars Society
• 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

• ITL MARS, a reflex sight made by International Technologies Lasers
• 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
• Operation Mars, 28 March 1918 German offensive in WWI, part of the Spring Offensive

Warships

• French ship Mars, several French warships
• Swedish warship Mars, a Swedish warship sunk in 1564
• HMS Mars, several ships of the name
  • HMS Mars (1794), 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy
• SMS Mars, two ships of the name
• USS Mars, several ships of the name
  • USS Mars (AFS-1), a supply ship in the United States Pacific Fleet

Transportation

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

Other uses

• Mars the Dog, canine star of A Dog's Breakfast

See also

• Champ de Mars (disambiguation)
• Field of Mars (disambiguation)
• Fourth planet (disambiguation)
• Marrs
• 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)
• Marte (disambiguation)