Mars (disambiguation)
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Mars may refer to:
Most commonly to:
- Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun
- Mars (god), the god of war in Roman mythology
- ♂, the Mars Icon, a symbol for male sex, Mars god or in alchemy for Iron
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Confectionary
- Mars, Incorporated, a confectioner
- Mars Bar, a candy bar produced by Mars, Inc.
Media
- Veronica Mars, a TV detective show that airs on UPN
- "Mars, the Bringer of War" is a movement in Gustav Holst's The Planets suite.
- Mars (band), a short-lived No Wave band
- Mars (manga), the title of a manga comic book
- Mars (actor), an actor from Hong Kong, member of the Jackie Chan stuntman team.
- Mars (film), a 1998 movie starring Shari Belafonte
- Mars (Russian film), a 2004 Russian film
- Sailor Mars, is the codename of Rei Hino in the Sailor Moon franchise
Technology
- HMS Mars, seven ships of the Royal Navy
- Mars probe program, a series of unmanned craft launched by the Soviet Union in the early 1970s
- The code name for a family of PDP-10-compatible digital computers built by Systems Concepts
- MARS, in computing, a Memory Array Redcode Simulator, a machine that simulates a Corewar battle.
- MARS, in cryptography, a block cipher designed by IBM, and one of the finalists for the Advanced Encryption Standard
- Military Affiliate Radio System, MARS, an auxiliary communications system for the United States armed forces
- Mars Tension-leg Platform, the largest oil drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico
Places
France
Mars is the name or part of the name of several communes in France:
- Mars, in the Ardèche département
- Mars, in the Gard département
- Mars, in the Loire département
- Mars-la-Tour, Meurthe-et-Moselle département
- Mars-sous-Bourcq, in the Ardennes département
- Mars-sur-Allier, in the Nièvre département
Mars is a also common slang term used to refer to the city of Marseille, in France, as popularised by the French hip hop group IAM
Greece
- Mars' Hill is an obsolete translation, used for instance in the Authorised Version of the Acts of the Apostles, for the Areopagus (Hill of Ares) in Athens
United States
- Mars, Pennsylvania, a borough located in Butler County
- Mars Hill, Maine, a town in Aroostook County, Maine
- Mars Hill, North Carolina, a town in southwestern North Carolina
- Mars Hill College, North Carolina, a small private liberal arts college in southwestern North Carolina
