| 单词 | Mars |
| 例句 | It seemed silly to him now—getting angry at Grandmother when he had so many others to be angry at: Juno, Gaea, the giants, his dad Mars. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z They stood on the porches and tried to believe in the existence of Earth, much as they had once tried to believe in the existence of Mars; it was a problem reversed. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Open bodies of liquid water are impossible today because the atmospheric pressure on Mars is too low to keep even cold water from rapidly boiling. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z "Problem is, the original plan was to launch presupplies a year from now. They're not ready yet. "It takes eight months to get a probe to Mars in the best of times. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Planets—Mars and Jupiter and Saturn—are magnified and exaggerated in color, hanging orb-like in the sky. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z When the workingpeople began leaving their houses, the daybreak boys diverged, Mars Bar to the East End, Maniac to wherever. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Mars Bar jammed his arms downward, stuck out his chin, sneered. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z One of them had found our friend the homeless guy, and they were having a serious conversation about metal angels from Mars. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The failure of Mars 6 is more mysterious. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Is there any danger of driving the environment of the Earth toward the planetary Hell of Venus or the global ice age of Mars? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For the first time in days, the voices of Ares and Mars had started to argue again in the back of Frank’s mind, debating their favorite forms of violent death. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “Yes, obviously some sort of blessing from Mars. Congratulations, blah, blah, blah. Now, if we’re done here...?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z In fact, there were Ares 3 supplies en route to Mars while the Ares 2 crew were on their way home. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z At Saint Elizabeth College, in Morristown, New Jersey, a woman raced down a dormitory hall screaming, “A rocket is coming from Mars. We're all going to be killed!” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z To travel from earth to Mars, you must aim not at Mars but at the point in the sky where Mars will be on your arrival. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z By then Mars Bar was hauling on up the street past the basketball players, who were rolling on the asphalt with laughter. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Once safely on the surface of Mars, what would our astronauts find? Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z On reaching Entrance Crater, the lone inhabitant of Mars turned his vehicle toward the Schiaparelli Basin. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z If one looks at the sky on a clear, moonless night, the brightest objects one sees are likely to be the planets Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z "But we're staring at this black screen because it's way more interesting than pictures from Mars." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Will it decide to create Libra, live on Mars, visit Titan, and venture beyond? Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She watched the blue sky of Mars as if it might at any moment grip in on itself, contract, and expel a shining miracle down upon the sand. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Percy found himself standing in the hills north of Camp Jupiter, looking down at the Field of Mars and New Rome. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z It is within our capability to land a rover on Mars that could scan its surroundings, see the most interesting place in its field of view and, by the same time tomorrow, be there. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The first guy to spend more than thirty-one sols on Mars. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Mars has no insects, parasites, or blights to deal with, and the Hab maintains perfect growing temperature and moisture at all times. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In our own solar system there are several bodies that may be suitable for life of some sort: the Earth certainly, and perhaps Mars, Titan and Jupiter. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I'm the first guy to drive long-distance on Mars. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But the vivid descriptions in the popular books by Lowell and his fervor in public lectures convinced millions of people for years to come that Mars was home to intelligent life. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z “The tip is a dragon’s tooth,” Mars said. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z All Copernicus could say was that ‘Earthy’ things tended to fall to Earth, solar things tended to fall to the Sun, things with an affinity for Mars would fall to Mars, and so on. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Maniac and Mars Bar stared in silence at the gunnery slots, where wide- open eyes began to appear, one pair atop another. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind us was a huge backdrop of the Red Planet, Mars. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z As I made my way toward the RTG's burial site, it hit me: Mars is a barren wasteland and I am completely alone here. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The positions of Earth and Mars right now . . . it's not the best of times. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Somewhere it was the month of April on the planet Mars, a yellow month with a blue sky. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z I can remember as a child reading with breathless fascination the Mars novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Standing a few feet away was his dad, Mars, wearing a red beret and olive fatigues with the insignia of the Italian Special Forces, an assault rifle slung over his shoulder. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z So here's another first: Tomorrow I'll be the first person to recover a Mars probe. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Most scientists doubted that the Mars environment could support a humanlike life form. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z If there is life on Mars, where are the dead bodies? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Could this have anything to do with the explosions on Mars? Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Earth, Venus, Mars, icy Neptune, Uranus, and the rest, even Saturn with its rings, all spin slowly in the far corner of the room. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The next was about the latest mission to Mars and showed a robotic probe collecting specimens from the planet crust. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Monitoring the status of satellites around Mars had sounded like an exciting proposition when she took the transfer. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z People flood into the post office, carrying giant drums and flutes and tubas, blasting a somewhat off-key rendition of that Bruno Mars song “Marry You.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z They came to Mars and now, first thing, or so they said, they were going fishing. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Now it was Mars Bar doing the blinking, stepping back, trying to sort things out. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Every year or two the relative positions of the planets and the physics of Kepler and Newton permit the launch of a spacecraft to Mars or Venus with a minimum expenditure of energy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Now they wanted to be shouting drunk, firing off guns to show how wonderful they were to have kicked a hole in space and ridden a rocket all the way to Mars. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z He wondered if Mars had said something about him, but Percy wasn’t sure he wanted to know. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z All over the night side of Mars lovers awoke to listen to their loved ones who lay humming in the darkness. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Ares and Mars screamed in his head, Swords! The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “Yes. If they make it. Family rockets are made for travel to the Moon, not Mars. We were lucky we got through.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z "Brought product to surface of Mars. It stopped working. 0/10." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He got what Mars had been trying to tell him—Duty. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Unlike the orbits of Mercury and Mars, the orbits of the other planets depart so little from circularity that we cannot make out their true shapes even in an extremely accurate diagram. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She moved away from him, paced slowly, with measured steps, about the room. “—see, we lived on Mars. That’s how come I know androids.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Mars has fascinated people for centuries, and they have made countless wild guesses about it. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The distressed man explained that “Mars had cracked open and great tanks of steel had fallen in New Jersey and great monsters had arisen.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z We have to meander like a Mars rover to forge our way through the woods, weaving a slow and unpredictable path. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Ares 2 did the same thing, in a different location on Mars. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The number grew steadily in proportion to the census of Earth Men already on Mars. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z But what is the optimum way, given severe constraints on size, cost and power requirements, to search for microbes on Mars? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He had been driving steadily for an hour, with no other car on the road, no light, just the road going under, the hum, the roar, and Mars out there, so quiet. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z I'm writing this log to you, dear future Mars archaeologist, from Rover 2. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But one day Earth will be as Mars is today. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z It would certainly be fascinating to see what life, if any, really is on Mars. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1973, a quite similar sequence of events occurred with the Mars 6 lander, in that case the failure occurring within one second of touchdown. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He had pleaded with the Olympian gods—even Mars—to help his friends, but he knew they were beyond the gods’ reach. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He went down to the rocket field in the early morning and yelled in through the wire fence at the men in uniform that he wanted to go to Mars. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Again, Frank waited for the god to strike him down, but Mars just grinned like they were two old buddies talking trash. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z It seem like we walk to Mars before we finally got to the Brown Cow. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z In the awkward silence he adds, “I’m in Shadbush Crossing, not Mars. Yes, of course I’ve heard. Would you like to tell me why you would do such a thing?” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z To avoid the probable fate of Mars 3, we wanted Viking to land in a place and time at which the winds were low. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And it’s called a Mars mantrap as a joke comparing it to the Venus flytraps of the known world.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “Nice try, Veronica Mars, but I have no clue what you’re talking about.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z John Carter flees the broken Confederacy for Mars. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z In Venice, Mars had warned him that his true test of leadership was coming. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z While Ares screamed that Athena’s children couldn’t be trusted, and Mars bellowed at him to kill all the Greeks, Frank had grown to respect Annabeth. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He could see Mars Bar’s bike veering for a nearby puddle to splash water on him. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Conversely, finding life in Antarctic dry valleys would correspondingly improve, he thought, the chances of life on Mars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Not surprisingly, it took years to solve the riddle of the orbit of Mars, with Kepler moving in stages away from the idea of a perfectly circular orbit centred on the Sun. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Mars stood still as the majestic vessels of the Martians drew around and hesitated over him. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z My conk and whole costume were so wild that I might have been taken as a man from Mars. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z That means they had better be able to solve most problems themselves, especially problems involving the Mars landing itself, where the situation might change drastically, minute by minute. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In his mind, Ares and Mars had gone silent, but Frank thought he heard other voices whispering in the side corridors, beckoning him to veer off course, to come closer and listen to them speak. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z You think this is a very cool idea and have added Mars to the list of places you want to visit. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z If I've learned one thing from my stay at Club Mars, it's that everything can be useful. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Mankind reaching out to Mars to send people to another planet for the very first time and expand the horizons of humanity blah, blah, blah. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z When they left, half the Pickwell kids followed them, begging Mars to perform his legendary feat of stopping traffic. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He slept in a good house on Mars Avenue, rose mornings at nine, bathed, and idled to town for ham and eggs. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Mars finished writing and threw the scroll at Octavian. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I never realized how utterly silent Mars is. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Jason had once told him that the children of Mars had a similar ability. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z At the opposite shore, we sat on the edge of a dry-rotted wooden boat dock and dangled our feet over the Mars surface of the dead lake, which was nine feet below us. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z They believed, as did all little kids in the West End, that he carried a hundred Mars Bars with him at all times. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z For all the tantalizing and provocative character of the Viking results, I know a hundred places on Mars which are far more interesting than our landing sites. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Then something clicked in the back of Frank’s mind: Mars had said the tip was a dragon’s tooth. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He yelled at the top of his lungs, imagining himself as a fearsome rhinoceros, but with Ares and Mars screaming in his head, he couldn’t concentrate. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Very high winds have been recorded on the surface of Mars, and sometimes nearly the entire surface of the planet is obscured by blowing dust. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Preliminary radar surveys suggested that as much as a quarter to a third of the surface area of Mars might be radar-dark, and therefore dangerous for Viking. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z To many, that could mean only one thing: Since canals on Earth are man-made, Mars’s canals must have been built by intelligent creatures. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Even this may be an accurate prophecy: If the planet ever is terraformed, it will be done by human beings whose permanent residence and planetary affiliation is Mars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The artist was trying, I think, to illustrate dust and high winds: Mars 3 had entered the Martian atmosphere during an enormous global dust storm. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z On the Field of Mars, engineers were hard at work, pulling down the remains of last night’s fort and setting up barricades for a game of deathball. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z They even gave me a picture of Mars. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ares is my Greek form. But to these followers, to the children of Rome, I am Mars—patron of the empire, divine father of Romulus and Remus.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z There wasn’t an eleven- year-old in the East End who could stand up to Mars Bar’s glare. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “The snake is a gift from Mars,” Frank growled. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z And when it was over, only one glare was left standing, and it wasn’t Mars Bar’s. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Today it takes a few months to cross the ocean of the inner solar system and make planet-fall on Mars or Venus, which are truly and literally new worlds awaiting us. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Remember you told me about that conversation with Mars? Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Three years before The War of the Worlds was published, a Bostonian named Percival Lowell founded a major observatory where the most elaborate claims in support of life on Mars were developed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We find them throughout the inner solar system—from Mercury, closest to the Sun, to cloud-covered Venus to Mars and its tiny moons, Phobos and Deimos. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z "Coming to Mars was needlessly dangerous," Lewis said. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The Mars revealed by the Viking mission is of enormous interest—particularly when we remember that the landing sites were chosen for their dullness. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Lowell built his observatory far away from home, on Mars Hill in Flagstaff, Arizona.' Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Mars has a tilt of just over 25 degrees, so it's pointed at Deneb. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s my gift from Mars. A battle can be won before it’s ever fought by choosing the right ground.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z But it is liquid only on worlds much colder than the Earth or Mars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Who had lived here a thousand years ago on Mars? The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z A week ago, if someone had suggested that Frank was a child of Mars, Hazel would have laughed. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z It happened as he was clamping and lugging Mars Bar down the gauntlet of Cobras, trying to keep him alive — and what was Mars Bar doing? Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m going to be the first person to walk on Mars.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z So we bring food to Mars and hope that the Martians, if there are any, will find it tasty. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z "You heard me. No landing system. We'll need guidance for in-flight course adjustments. But once it gets to Mars, it's going to crash." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z A real man's weapon—Mars was a moron. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The warriors of the great Latin heroic poem, the Aeneid, far from rejoicing to escape from him, rejoice when they see that they are to fall “on Mars’ field of renown.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, the most fascinating question of all is: could there be life on Mars? Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z We pretended the girl flipping pizzas behind the counter was going to grow up to be the first woman on Mars. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Therefore, it would take our Mars astronauts forty minutes to ask for, and receive, any advice from earth. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He marches back to Persia with an army and a wife, and smacks Chobin so hard for wrecking everything that Chobin flees to Fergana, which is like saying he runs away to Mars. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “Spoken like a child of Mars! Too bad I have to kill you. And this one... my, my, I’ve been waiting to meet the famous Percy Jackson.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The kid, as you probably guessed by now, was none other than Mars Bar Thompson. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Percy stood on the Field of Mars, looking up at the Berkeley Hills. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Subsequent observations by the Viking lander support the identification of windblown clays on Mars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In Paris on the Champ de Mars, France opened the Exposition Universelle, a world’s fair so big and glamorous and so exotic that visitors came away believing no exposition could surpass it. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z When Mars Bar whispered to Maniac, “What is that?” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Such chambers are called, of course, Mars Jars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe Mars is different than Ares. I don’t think Ares can read.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The distance derived from measurements of the parallax of Mars carried out in 1671 by a French team using simultaneous observations by Jean Richer from Cayenne, in French Guiana, and Cassini from Paris. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z They began to plan people’s lives and libraries; they began to instruct and push about the very people who had come to Mars to get away from being instructed and ruled and pushed about. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a vicious, undead killing force, barely controlled by the power of Mars. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The Romans liked Mars better than the Greeks liked Ares. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “What is it with you? Do you live on Mars or what?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z If things work out they hope to establish three atomic research and atom bomb depots on Mars. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The surface area of Mars is exactly as large as the land area of the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Lowell and Wallace both understood that the comparative inhospitability of Mars was due to the scarcity of water. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z With no magnetic field, Mars has no defense against harsh solar radiation. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Wrong. He didn’t have the money, Kat. He’d spent it all. The disposable camera. The Mars bars. The Cokes. The busker.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z We can calculate reliably the path a rocket will take as it flies from the earth to Mars. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Better yet,” she said to Mars Bar, “just give it back to him.” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Even a single day's difference would result in missing Mars entirely. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z They looked at Mars in silence for a while. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Those gases are unlikely to have escaped from Mars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw them kind of looking at me, and then Gino came running over and yelled, “Hey, Mars! Is your name Paul Fisher?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The first guy to grow crops on Mars. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z And the kid hadn’t even gone for the unused end; he had chomped right over Mars Bar’s own bite marks. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “I think the safest place for you is Mars. Take a rocket and get going....Nuts to you!” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z He decided instead that he could best serve the search for life on Mars by voyaging to the most Mars-like environment on Earth— the dry valleys of Antarctica. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z At most, terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Every gram counts when making stuff to send to Mars. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Hadn’t they said on the news a few years ago that strange signals were coming from Mars and that it had canals? Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z The Mars 3 mission was rigidly organized before launch. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z "You can go to the moon, maybe even to Mars by the time you are of my age." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z He points to the news announcer actor, who breaks in with a second bulletin: The Government Meteorological Bureau has asked observatories to watch for more explosions on Mars. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z It wouldn’t be right, the first night on Mars, to make a loud noise, to introduce a strange, silly bright thing like a stove. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “Come down, son of Mars! We’ve been waiting for you. Come, be our honored guest!” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Because Mars is farther from the Sun than is the Earth, its temperatures are considerably lower. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z While the Viking biology experiments are a pioneering first effort, they hardly represent a definitive search for life on Mars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Kind of like how not getting to share your Mars colonization idea is so unfair. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z Then the grenade morphed into a ballpoint pen, and Mars began to write. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z On my left was mighty Hercules, and on my right Mars and the constellation Libra. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Might it really be possible—in fact and not in fancy—to venture with John Carter to the Kingdom of Helium on the planet Mars? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z None of them had spoken since Mars and Maniac walked in. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z To have the director of Mars operations visiting SatCon was unusual. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t even get enough time to talk about becoming an astronaut and walking on Mars, or my favorite experiments or my best furry friend, Sir Fig. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z One end of the wormhole was at my house, and the other end was at Mars. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z But Titan has an atmospheric pressure at least as great as that of the planet Mars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z So, asks Phillips, you don’t think there’s intelligent life on Mars? Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z There is another way to investigate Mars and the full range of delights and discoveries this heterogeneous planet holds for us. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They looked with fervent anticipation, and the dead city lay dead for them alone, drowsing in a hot silence of summer made on Mars by a Martian weatherman. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z According to the data returned by Mars 3, it should have landed successfully on the red planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z All of which means that we have an Ohio River on Mars!” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Does the rest of Mars die of a disease with a fine name or a terrifying name or a majestic name? The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The kid in gray checked out my goggles and said, “Yow! It came from Mars!” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Schiaparelli had reported during a close approach of Mars to Earth an intricate network of single and double straight lines crisscrossing the bright areas of the planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why do I get the feeling that ‘honored guest’ means the same thing as ‘dinner’?” Frank wished Mars were still there. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “For two cents I’d go back home and tell people not to bother with Mars. What a suspicious bunch of louts.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Kepler had found that Mars moves about the Sun not in a circle, but in an ellipse. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He turned his laptop around to show a map of Mars. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z If it launches on time, our payload will get to Mars on Sol 624, six weeks after Watney's expected to run out of food. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Somebody would inevitably high-kick when it was time for spirit fingers, the timing was off on the contagion, and the whole thing was such a disaster that Petra pronounced it “so dinner theater on Mars.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Then I turned it loose on an unsuspecting Mars. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z My mom looks at us as if we just arrived from Mars. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Radar observations of Chryse were made for the first time—because of the geometry of Earth and Mars—only a few weeks before the nominal landing date. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z An Alabama woman thought everybody should realize that an attack from Mars was “not only highly improbable,...but an absolute impossibility at present.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z We’d huddle together in a shuttle constructed out of chairs and bedsheets, and in T minus ten we’d blast off into space, visit the moon, Mars, the asteroid belt and beyond. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z He reported seeing suspicious markings on Mars’s surface just as Schiaparelli and Lowell had. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z I'm in my space suit on Mars and I'm navigating with sixteenth-century tools. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “What do mean, Mars? Is your grandmother... is she okay?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z In 1892, his eyesight failing, Schiaparelli announced he was giving up observing Mars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “I thought: Well, here I am, the only lady on Mars, and here is the only man, and, well.. .” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z He said, “Mars, my man! Good work out there.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The hull sat on Panel A, one of four sides of the tetrahedron which brought Pathfinder to Mars. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z As unwieldy as Mars’s spear was, the piece of tinder was worse. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Somewhere between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars it would begin heating and evaporating. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Communicating from Mars to Earth is a pretty big deal, and requires extremely specialized equipment. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z "Do you have a plan for moving Earth and Mars closer together?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He wanted to go to Mars on the rocket. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew, for instance, that I was going to be an astronomer and one day walk on Mars and maybe even live on the next International Space Station. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Finally, exhausted, he picked up the thin directory which listed every phone on Mars. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Apprehensively, she said, “There’s a fine; I’m the property, the legal property, of the association. I’m not an escaped android who fled here from Mars; I’m not in the same class as the others.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z I know the crew was surprised to hear from the Ghost of Mars Missions Past, but c'mon! The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z When he glanced back, a miniature mushroom cloud erupted from the middle of the bridge, rings of fire washing outward, and a pair of voices—Mars and Ares—screamed, “Noooo!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Only one problem: Mars doesn't have a magnetic field. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The Cobras stayed, and Maniac, clamping the struggling Mars Bar for dear life, lugged him down a gauntlet of seething eyes to the door and the street. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The 251-day trip to Mars was uneventful, needing only two minor course adjustments. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He notes that Mars is forty million miles away from Earth. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z One of them said, “What’s up, Mars?” which I didn’t mind at all. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Maniac could feel the voltage that surged through Mars Bar and crackled black lightning from his eyes. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “And I wanted to be the first librarian on Mars. Ask me how that’s working out. Now go play something else.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Because Phobos is ridiculously close to Mars, it orbits the planet in less than one Martian day. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, for the fourth time since the broadcast began, the news announcer interrupts with a special bulletin: An astronomer at McGill University in Canada has just seen three more explosions on Mars. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Then, one by one, the horrible realities of Mars came into play. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Percy had made it clear that he hated Mars, and Frank couldn’t blame him. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Or perhaps they will merely pick up and leave for Mars or Europa or Titan or, at last, as Robert Goddard envisioned, seek out an uninhabited planet in some young and promising planetary system. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There is no free water now on the surface of Mars, but there is evidence that there once was, and it is possible that there still is moisture trapped below the surface. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Without it, they would have spent their first week on Mars barely able to walk. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He wasn’t sure if he wanted to cry or scream or punch Mars in the glasses—maybe all three. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z It is not a plausible source of raw materials: the freightage from Mars to Earth would be too expensive for many centuries to come. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Start to finish, including supply missions, a Mars mission takes about three years. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In the case of Mars, the trip can take as long as nine months, following a curving arc approximately 460 million miles long. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Tycho had commended Mars to Kepler because its apparent motion seemed most anomalous, most difficult to reconcile with an orbit made of circles. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “War isn’t inevitable. It kills people. It—” “—took your mom,” Mars finished. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z For example, all the water in the atmosphere of Mars today could be accounted for by a recent impact of a small comet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z At which point someone else called, “Go, Mars!” and Bump turned and snarled, “Shut up! When the starter starts, there’s no noise!” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The sphere turns, the little wheel rotates, and, as seen from the Earth, Mars does its loop-the-loop. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She gets out and looks around like she’s just been dropped off on Mars or something. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z A thin layer of water frost covers the ground at 44° North latitude on Mars, in October 1977, at the beginning of northern winter. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Turns out, through a neat set of chemical reactions with the Martian atmosphere, for every kilogram of hydrogen you bring to Mars, you can make thirteen kilograms of fuel. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Mars was a distant shore, and the men spread upon it in waves. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “So this is Mars,” said the captain, undressing. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Whenever Mars came near, the early astronomers focused their telescopes on it in hopes of seeing surface details. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z He told them he was a taxpayer, his name was Pritchard, and he had a right to go to Mars. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z In a moment Maniac and Mars Bar were on the platform, gasping and following Piper’s pointing finger down the tracks. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z How can this be happening—Mars defeating us! Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z The clays of the primitive Earth may have been the forge of life, and the chemistry of contemporary Mars may provide essential clues to the origin and early history of life on our planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When I say the words, people think it may as well be Mars. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z It has an astounding 10.2 percent efficiency, which is good because Mars doesn't get as much sunlight as Earth. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z If only a network of canals existed, the lack would be remedied, the habitability of Mars would become plausible. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Mars Bar handed back the torn page, but not before he crumpled it into a ball. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Once everything was a go, we set out for Mars. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z There are sandstorms on the Earth and on Mars; lightning on Jupiter and Venus and Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s cool. I don’t mind. It’s only a game, Mars.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Mars stared down at her, his grip tightening on his M16. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter are countless asteroids, tiny terrestrial planets. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z "Technically," she corrected, "the booster only took me into orbit. It was the nuclear-powered ion engine that took me to Mars." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe when all this is over I could be a product tester for Mars rovers. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z His report explains that a professor at a Chicago observatory has spotted several gas explosions on Mars. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z That means Mars is finished; all this wonderful stuff gone. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The JPL Spacecraft Assembly Facility, known as the "clean room," was the little-known birthplace of the most famous spacecraft in Mars exploration history. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Detailed weather predictions for Mars were, of course, much less reliable than for Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There were sunflowers big as flowers on Mars and thick cockscombs bleeding the deep red fringe of theater curtains. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Mass is the expensive part about sending things to Mars. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z And the second part, the ‘heavenly name created in jest’? Well, the planet Mars is in space, making it a heavenly body. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z If terrestrial bugs could live on Mars, he thought, why not in Antarctica—which was by and large warmer, wetter, and had more oxygen and much less ultraviolet light. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It's not uncommon; Mars has weather and wind and dust, after all. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The combination of Soviet successes in landing on Venus and Soviet failures in landing on Mars naturally caused us some concern about the U.S. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But for so dangerous and mysterious a planet as Mars, there was also at least an element of luck. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Lowell and Schiaparelli and others, doing visual observations under difficult seeing conditions, were misled—in part perhaps because of a predisposition to believe in life on Mars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z "Publicly rescue the Americans? Put a Chinese astronaut on Mars? Have the world see China as equal to the US in space? The State Council would sell their own mothers for that." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The nimble minds in 1244 were already hopping from Mars to Jupiter and on to Saturn, like stones skipped in a glassy lake. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Perhaps there are large lifeforms on Mars, but not in our two landing sites. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When I asked how she and Carlton were related to the black Lackses, they looked at each other from across the coffee table like I’d asked if they were born on Mars. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He had his radio on and heard the professor discussing Mars. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z But he never saw his body break the thread; he saw only the face of Mars Bar, straining, gasping, unbelieving, losing. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The necessary dust would require 1,200 Saturn 5 rocket boosters to be transported from Earth to Mars; even then, the winds might blow the dust off the polar caps. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z At first glance, the place looks like nothing so much as the canal network that Percival Lowell imagined to adorn Mars, and that, we now know from space vehicle exploration, does not exist at all. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For life to be detected on Mars photographically, even from Mars orbit, it must likewise have accomplished a major reworking of the surface. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The clay hypothesis hardly excludes life on Mars, but it certainly carries us far enough to say that there is no compelling evidence for microbiology on Mars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw Mars sitting at his grandmother’s bedside, looking at Frank with those nuclear explosion eyes: You’re Juno’s secret weapon. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “You think you bad or somethin’?” Maniac, who was now twice as confused as Mars Bar, blinked. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Some scientists have believed that Mars is inhabited on what has later proved to be the flimsiest evidence. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z No, he continues, the stripes are due to Mars’s atmosphere. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z It was remarkable that there were any places at all on Mars that simultaneously satisfied all our safety criteria. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They skirted the perimeter of the camp and took the northernmost bridge over the Little Tiber, charging onto the Field of Mars at the western edge of the battle. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I got pushed so far off course, I'm actually not far from the Mars exploration rover Opportunity. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In all, some ninety thousand people came to Mars, and more, on Earth, were packing their grips. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z There weren’t many Martians left on Mars—one hundred, one hundred and fifty, all told. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Mars’s eyes bulged, he backed off, the scowl collapsed, and he howled with laughter. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z For the first time since leaving Mars, they were back to their old selves. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He paused, then said, “We all came here together on the same ship from Mars. Not Resch; he stayed behind another week, receiving the synthetic memory system.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z These rovers were used to help simulate the rover on Mars. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z But under the deceptively clean and level slate the topography was the same, and instead of San Francisco or Europe or Mars I would be learning the old landscape, brook and hill and tree. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Brahe at first thought that he had obtained a reliable figure for the parallax of Mars which proved the Ptolemaic system was mistaken, although he later realized that there were problems with it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Finally, from the edge of the Field of Mars, a battle cry went up. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He might as well have been on Mars. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z How high could you jump if you lived on Mars? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z In the event a crewman dies on Mars, he stays on Mars. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Mars Bar wrenched free and stomped on ahead. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “What happened” — Mars Bar snorted — “what happened was, I went out and rescued the dumb fish. Like to get myself kilt.” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z A month before launch, we all got tattoos of our "Mars numbers." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he put his arm around my shoulder and said, “Mars, you were in my head on that shot. You made me miss. You made me choke.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Slowly the campers regrouped on the Field of Mars. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Such a mission would reap enormous scientific benefits, even if there is no life on Mars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t want to go to Mars, they said. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Watney simply slept at night on Mars, while Mindy had to drift forty minutes forward every day, taping aluminum foil to her windows to get any sleep at all. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Mars Bar helped her down from the other side. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z "Bob's got more to deal with than just Mars. Mindy's handling all the Martian satellites, and keeps them pointed at Mark." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I guess I should explain how Mars missions work, for any layman who may be reading this. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Biddy was ’bout finished with her oatmeal and eyeing the fruit like it drop down from Mars. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z On the other hand, it was argued that, on so windy a planet as Mars, microorganisms should be everywhere if they are anywhere. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Mars has an atmosphere, but a very thin one, and it is composed mostly of carbon dioxide, so astronauts would have to bring their own oxygen to breathe. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Hinkston said, “But we checked every mile of the way. Our chronometers said so many miles. We went past the Moon and out into space, and here we are. I’m positive we’re on Mars.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z On Mars such a place would be even more interesting, because while the visible light necessary for photosynthesis would penetrate to that depth, the germicidal ultraviolet light would be at least partially attenuated. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I can remember spending many an hour in my boyhood, arms resolutely outstretched in an empty field, imploring what I believed to be Mars to transport me there. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Because I thought forever was like Mars — far away. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z He wished he had any father but Mars. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Mars pulled a scroll from his utility belt. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z You get three charges out of it, Mars had said, so use it wisely. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “I fight a lot of people. But I assure you—you’ve never fought me as Mars. If you had, you’d be dead. Now, kneel, as befits a child of Rome, before you try my patience.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z ‘We also shouldn’t send Frank and me together. Mars and Athena - that would be just as bad.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The blessing of Mars faded, leaving him depleted. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Asteroids, as most people know, are rocky objects orbiting in loose formation in a belt between Mars and Jupiter. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I'm beginning to see that crops on Mars are extremely prolific, thanks to the billions of dollars' worth of life support equipment around me. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I journeyed with John Carter, gentleman adventurer from Virginia, to “Bar- soom,” as Mars was known to its inhabitants. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Mars casually popped another grenade off his belt. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Naturally, they didn't send us to Mars until they'd confirmed that all the supplies had made it to the surface and their containers weren't breached. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z One man had died, but now the remaining sixteen, with their eyes clear in their heads and their faces pressed to the thick glass ports, watched Mars swing up under them. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z He had half a Mars bar left from his outing with Marcus, a disposable camera, the clothes he had on and nothing more. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Mars had told him the spear would give him breathing room until he learned to use his mother’s talents. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Frank refused to explain exactly what his “family gift” was, but as they flew north, Frank did tell them about his conversation with Mars the night before. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Their circles were about as far from intersecting as Jupiter and Mars in the night sky. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Because he was a child of Mars, or maybe because... The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He felt like sobbing, but he guessed that would not be a good idea in front of Mars. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He couldn’t see that Mars Bar disliked him, maybe even hated him. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “So you finally got to Mars, you Moral Climate people? I wondered when you’d appear.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z One day Mars Bar would lead Maniac down the river, down the tracks, past the railroad gondolas, each with its mountain of coal, to the rolling mill at the steel plant where his father worked. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z "After spending that long on Mars, anything could be wrong with it." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Dean and his wife of Highland, Wisconsin, were listening to dance music on their radio when it was interrupted by the newsflash about a Mars disturbance. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z “For that matter,” said Lustig, nodding, “Williams and his men, as well as York, landed on the opposite side of Mars. We were very careful to land on this side.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z But these ideas do not rescue the notion that the Viking lander experiments indicate life on Mars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I can only hope that someday this hairy antenna will prove useful and I'll be the receiver of messages from Mars. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z As for Mars Bar himself, his expression never changed until the dinner was almost over, when the littlest non-baby Pickwell, Dolly, called him “Mr. Bar.” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well,” said the captain, “it’s simply that we never thought we’d find a thing like this on Mars.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Nice words from the director of Mars operations wouldn't bring him back. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Could life elsewhere—on Mars, say—be built of different stuff? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z At one point, he was even asked to decipher radio signals thought to come from Mars. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z It could conceivably determine the future of the Rosen Association, here in the United States, in Russia, and on Mars. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z "Hermes is seventy-three million kilometers from Mars right now. Only four light-minutes away. Beth Johanssen is a great programmer. She could talk Mark through it." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Around Mars’s feet, the ground boiled in a circle of flame. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Space researchers use the Atacama as a model for the sands of Mars. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z This time Mars Bar was up against an East End lady in her prime, and she was matching him eyeball for eyeball. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Venus, Earth and Mars move progressively less rapidly about the Sun. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Later Jason told him that the blessing of Mars had shrouded him in red light, like it had in Venice. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Then I stow the bedroom and go back to the airlock for a normal egress to Mars. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Positive results in Martian microbiology were achieved in seven different samplings in two locales on Mars separated by 5,000 kilometers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They marched to the center of the Field of Mars and formed ranks. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z If I felt like a fish out of water in my family, I felt like a fish on Mars in Adam’s circle. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z One of my tasks for the mission was to see how plants grow here, in various combinations of Earth and Mars soil and atmosphere. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It would happen as soon as the numbness of being the “first” men to Mars wore off. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “You were willing to burn up to save the quest. Mars can’t expect more than that.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z As Mars unwound from his laughing fit, he studied Maniac up and down; aware, too, that Maniac was studying him. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But why did Mars 3 enter in the midst of a great dust storm? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Anyone got a pen? The legionnaires stared at him. Mars sighed. “Two hundred Romans, and no one's got a pen? The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z After landing, Mars 3 may have made a few bounces, hit a boulder or other example of Martian relief, tipped over, lost the radio link with its carrier “bus” and failed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I danced with Ares—or was he Mars? The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Once I park, it's back into the EVA suit for me, and out to Mars again. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, we came from the third planet, Earth, in a ship. And we’ve landed here on the fourth planet, Mars.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘You mean like on the Field of Mars - trenches, tunnels, that kind of thing? You can do that with the Mist?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “Mars said Juno wants to unite the Greeks and Romans to fight Gaea. But, jeez—Greeks and Romans have a long history of bad blood.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The real Mars is a world of wonders. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “At least for us. They send new ones in the Box every so often. If we had bad shoes, we’d have feet that look like freaking Mars.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z And Mars is just the beginning, an obvious place to start because it happens to be close at hand. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z So this time around, I needed a reliable way to fix my position on Mars. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I hesitated at the front door, wishing I were there to talk about the Andromeda Galaxy or the new Mars rover. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z I passed our homeless friend from the Embarcadero, who was still trying to warn the other guys about the metal angels from Mars. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z He remembered the night before they left Earth, the hustling and hurrying, the rocket that Dad had found somewhere, somehow, and the talk of a vacation on Mars. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind each door there were staggering supplies of candy: giant boxes of Mars Bars, Hershey’s Kisses, Snickers, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, Jolly Ranchers, and huge, squirming nests of Gummi Worms. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z They can take any sandstorm Mars has to offer. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z If you don’t succeed, Mars had warned, there won’t be any camp left to return to. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z It was an evening in summer upon the placid and temperate planet Mars. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z We know that at least some terrestrial microbes can survive on Mars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The boys hooted and ran the length of our 17 Janvier lane brandishing their precious Mars bars. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mars Almighty, that’s creepy! Get out of here, spirits! Leave our friends alone!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He was the same eighth grader who had named me Mars long ago, those many weeks ago. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z All the Ares missions use Hermes to get to and from Mars. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Directly beneath them the Great Salt Lake glittered like aluminum foil, the shoreline etched with white salt marshes that reminded Leo of aerial photos of Mars. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z These and other considerations suggest that a time scale for a significant terraforming of Mars is probably hundreds to thousands of years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The Twelfth Legion was arrayed on the Field of Mars, trying to protect the city. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Sir,” said Samuel Hinkston, “it must be, it has to be, that rocket travel to Mars began in the years before the first World War!” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “Come on, ring again! Come on/” He had never thought there might be others left on Mars. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z And all around the nervous towns of Mars a similar thing had happened. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “But, ah, mighty all-powerful Lord Mars, if we can’t die, isn’t that a good thing? If we can stay alive indefinitely—” “Don’t be foolish, boy!” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z So I'll amend that: Mars and my stupidity keep trying to kill me. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It will provide enough aerodynamics in Mars’s atmosphere. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Mars was a place as unpredictable as time. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z If life on Mars exists, we will have a unique opportunity to test the generality of our kind of life. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Mars’s sacred animal was the wild boar, not the serpent. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Astronomers think that regular outbursts continue on the Mars surface and more cylinders will soon land on Earth. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Despite Wallace’s critique, despite the fact that other astronomers with telescopes and observing sites as good as Lowell’s could find no sign of the fabled canals, Lowell’s vision of Mars gained popular acceptance. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Frank wanted to smack the calm look off his face, but maybe that was just Mars’s aura making him feel aggressive. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z On Mars, and elsewhere in the solar system, we see features that could not be produced today, landscapes carved hundreds of millions or billions of years ago when the planetary climate was probably very different. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Its sole purpose is to get six humans from Mars orbit to the surface without killing any of them. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Even if Mars wasn’t letting on, Maniac could tell he was pleased to learn his fame had spread to the West. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z If black meant bad, if black meant in-your-face nastiness, if black meant as far from white as you could get, then Mars Bar Thompson was the blackest of the black. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a morning that might have been a Monday or a Tuesday or any day on Mars. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything was so overwhelming that Mr. Matthews lightened the mood by taking me to an area where enlarged 3-D pictures of Mars were displayed. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z "It's the Taiyang Sheris booster, sir. Our engineers have run the numbers, and it has enough fuel for a Mars injection orbit. It could get there in four hundred and nineteen days." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Some people very much want there to be life on Mars; others very much want there to be no life on Mars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But this is precisely what Percival Lowell, not a hundred years ago, mistakenly proposed was in fact happening on Mars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone in a car nearby is blasting Bruno Mars, and it’s right then that I remember tonight is the talent show. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z Mars is in an almost circular orbit around the sun, at a distance of about 142 million miles. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He turned to his director of Mars operations. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s not as if we can go somewhere else; the disasters on the moon and Mars colonies proved that. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z "Like what? You think we'd send people to Mars without being sure everything was in perfect working order?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Wars were waged, the Internet was invented, and a robot had rolled on the surface of Mars, and in Afghanistan we were still telling Mullah Nasruddin jokes. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Glaciers, proverbial for their slowness, produce major reworkings of landscapes on the Earth and probably also on Mars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Vishniac did not claim that there had to be life on Mars, merely that it was possible, and that it was extraordinarily important to know if it was there. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The Freedom Writers might as well have been on Mars for all the attention we got. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “The beam from Station #4 caught Mars on schedule. We can break ours now.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z However, with pictures far more detailed than any view of Mars that Lowell could have glimpsed, we have found not a tributary of the vaunted canal network, not one lock. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Between training and our trip to Mars, I spent two years working with you. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z So “super unfair” means not having time to discuss your Mars colonization ideas? The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z “That smell... like snuffed-out souls. Thanatos is free, eh? Bah! It doesn’t matter. Gaea still controls the Doors of Death. Now, why have you brought me here, son of Mars?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z It whips around Mars so fast it actually rises and sets twice a day, running west to east. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I'm leaving Mars today, one way or another. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The next problem came when the starter, Bump Gilliam, who was also Mars Bar’s best pal, called, “Get ready!” — and someone in the crowd yelled, “That ain’t what you say! You say, ‘Take your mark’!” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z You’re a chemist, you have a German accent, you had a base on Mars . . . what more can there be? The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Had she truly stomped on Mr. Mars- den’s foot with her boot heel? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z As we move out away from the sun, our nearest neighbor is Mars. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z This was one reason that each Viking lander was carried into Mars orbit with its orbiter, and descent delayed until the orbiter surveyed the landing site. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Mars Bar stared with growing astonishment at Maniac, whose wide, unblinking eyes were fixed on the trestle, yet somehow did not seem to register what was there. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Tycho’s observations of the apparent motion of Mars and other planets through the constellations were made over a period of many years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Then make sure he gets the Mural Crown,” Mars demanded. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Of course, it was in constant communication with Houston, and if there had been any problems with it, we would have passed by Mars and gone home without ever landing. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Am I from Mars? And why are we talking movies all of a sudden?” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I suppose it’s not so surprising that the kids thought people from Africa were from Mars. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The row of lightning rods in the red sky looked like some weird science experiment, like NASA’s model home on Mars. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z For a moment he looks at me like I’m from Mars, then he says rather slowly, “I just...don’t...pay attention.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “I heard they had kicked you upstairs so you wouldn’t interfere with colonial policy here on Mars.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z This is my sanctuary and these three—my birth mom, Sunnie; my twin brother, Mars; and the illustrious Freddie Mercury—are my spiritual guides. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z “Oh, Momma, you rememberElbe’s voice was sweeter than a melted Mars Bar. “Daddy said last week we girls were going to have to have something for school.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z “Awesome,” said a kid from the Southeast team when the Mars rover simulator whirred awake. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Frank had wanted to talk with Grandmother about it, but now he had no one to consult but Mars. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z If terrestrial microbes can survive the Martian environment, how much better Martian microbes, if they exist, must do on Mars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z On the night of 19 February 1604, in Prague, Johannes Kepler was out measuring the position of Mars in the sky with a metal instrument called a quadrant. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He was the son of well-known astronomer William Herschel, who earlier had proposed that Mars could support intelligent life. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z The sinuous channels, stacked polar plates and other evidence suggest that Mars once had such a denser atmosphere. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z At this point, about 4.5 billion years ago, an object the size of Mars crashed into Earth, blowing out enough material to form a companion sphere, the Moon. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Mars’s symbol was a bloody spear for good reason. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He was offering his good right hand, his heart, his head, for the opportunity to go to Mars! The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z But Lowell’s lifelong love was the planet Mars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Sure, he’d been possessed at the time; but still Mars demanded vengeance. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The kid had done the unthinkable, he had chomped on one of Mars’s own bars. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z A Mars mania coursed through Europe and America, and Lowell found himself swept up with it. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Venice is overrun, Mars said, as Rome was about to be. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z In 1971, the Soviet Mars 3 spacecraft entered the Martian atmosphere. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He sat up and almost immediately felt his eyes darken and Mars revolve twice around under him. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z He could see Mars Bar’s dark form against the fence. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Mars Bar did not stop till he was inside Maniac’s phone booth of space, inches from his face. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Because Mars is smaller than earth, Mars’ gravity is not as strong. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Mariner 9 mission that near-surface winds of more than 140 meters per second—faster than half the speed of sound on Mars—arose in that storm. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He and thousands of others like him, if they had any sense, would go to Mars. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, he didn’t like the idea of this quest, especially since it came from Mars, and especially after his dreams. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z As he headed back to camp, he saw Mrs. O’Leary playing with Hannibal in the Field of Mars. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z To look for life on Mars, we must look for microbes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The enormous Palais du Champ de Mars houses a Street of Nations and a Gallery of Machines, where visitors can see innovations and art from around the world. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “I wondered what happened to Silly. I sent him on my bike an hour ago. He ain’t come back from Mrs. Bordman’s yet. You think that black fool just pedaled off to Mars?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z What if an advanced civilization lived on Mars? Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z He screamed when he saw Hank and Chuck and ran off yelling something about metal angels from Mars. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z If Lowell’s canal network really existed, the conclusion that intelligent beings inhabit Mars might be similarly compelling. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Just suppose, now, that there were Martians living on Mars and they saw our ship coming and saw us inside our ship and hated us. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z She also kept a fight from breaking out between the children of Mars and the children of Ares over the best way to kill a hydra. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z It could have been Mars for all I knew. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “A son of Mars, the hero who helped to bring back the eagle of the legion...I can work with a demigod like that. I’m just wondering how to convince the Twelfth Fulminata.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z For a while I worried that Viking 1 had been condemned, like the legendary Flying Dutchman, to wander the skies of Mars forever, never to find safe haven. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Say that there were people in the year 1905 who hated war and got together with some scientists in secret and built a rocket and came out here to Mars ” “No, no, Hinkston.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z It doesn't matter what time it is on Mars because I'm not there\\ Oh my god. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “You think those ten thousand new-type work rockets will come through to Mars?” she said at last. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z These were the books captured on the Mars and auctioned off to Dr. Stearns! Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Much more rarely am I asked, “Have you heard that gold is made in supernova explosions?” or “When do you think Congress will approve a Mars Rover?” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Mars Bar heard the calls, and the stone got harder. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z A lovely world, surely, but there is—from our parochial point of view—much wrong with Mars, chiefly the low oxygen abundance, the absence of liquid water, and the high ultraviolet flux. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A soft evening light shone over them from the stars and the luminous double moons of Mars. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Mars snapped his fingers, and Frank’s queasiness disappeared. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The Viking search for life on Mars can be traced in more ways than one back to Leeuwenhoek and Huygens. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ha! Good one, child of Mars. I suppose you’re right. No point talking about it. Even if the demigods found that map in Charleston, they’d never make it to Rome alive!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z It was quite a sight, all right — sixteen Pickwells plus Maniac, plus a down-and-out golf caddie — eighteen so-called white faces and Mars Bar Thompson. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But oxygen's easier to find on Mars than you might think. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I started to think about spacecraft big enough for whole families to be launched—to the moon, Mars, perhaps the stars themselves. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Recalling the Mars Jars experiments, Vishniac believed that life was tenacious and that Antarctica was perfectly consistent with microbiology. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When each of the two Viking orbiter-lander combinations was inserted into Martian orbit, it was unalterably committed to landing at a certain latitude on Mars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Captain Robinson will make a pretty penny from the Mars.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Dimly, he remembered reading about that; in the olden days they had believed in canals on Mars. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Interlocking dial systems connected every town on Mars. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Maniac shrugged, took the Mars Bar, bit off a chunk, and handed it back. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He stammered out the details of his discussion with Mars the night before, but he felt much more tongue-tied in front of Grandmother. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Frank didn’t understand, but Mars acted like the matter was closed. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z As usual, when Mars Bar got confused, he got mad. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The voices of Mars and Ares screamed right along with him. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The voices of Mars and Ares spoke in his mind, strong and unified: Break them! The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z One nice thing about living in a multibillion-dollar mansion on Mars: access to pure oxygen. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Back on Earth, universities and governments are willing to pay millions to get their hands on Mars rocks. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z There had once been missions to colonize Mars, to explore Jupiter’s moons, and even to launch to the stars beyond, but every mission had ended in utter and disastrous failure. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Bodies that don’t have a liquid core–the Moon and Mars, for instance–don’t have magnetism. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Mars does have two small moons, and a major geological feature on the larger of them is today called the Kepler Ridge in honor of this guess. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z "Mitch is right. The crash-lander is high-risk. It could miss Mars, it could reenter wrong and burn up, it could crash too hard and destroy the food . . . We estimate a thirty percent chance of success." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z "Lower than I'd like, but he's been in Mars gravity for eighteen months, so it's expected." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d been in the middle of a dream where I’d won the title of All-Time Greatest Scientist after discovering irrefutable evidence of life on Mars. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The little Pickwells made as much fuss over Mars Bar as over Maniac. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps the godly nursery had accidentally switched Frank with one of Mars’s buff little bully babies. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I had a ton of role models, and after I walked on Mars or discovered Planet Nine, then I would be someone’s hero too. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Because the Martian atmosphere is only 1 percent as dense as the Earth’s, a very large parachute, eighteen meters in diameter, was deployed to slow the spacecraft as it entered the thin air of Mars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m grateful for the book, of course. I can definitely let you go free, son of Mars. But I have a long-standing problem with Hades. After all, I owe my godly powers to Demeter!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z No, it wasn’t the what that surprised him, it was the who: Mars Bar Thompson. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The hatred in Mars Bar’s eyes was no longer for a white kid in the East End; it was for Jeffrey Magee, period. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Mars looked around, and noticed that everyone was still silently kneeling. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z "We have until Sol 584 to get a probe to Mars. That's four hundred and sixty-two sols, which is four hundred and seventy-five days." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Side note: Mars's atmosphere does condense at the poles. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In the jargon of space exploration, the Mars 3 mission was preprogrammed, not adaptive. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t want to be wrong and have Mars laugh at him. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The earth swallowed the Field of Mars, obliterating every trace of forts and trenches from the war games. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I shift to my knees and lean in close so I can whisper in Freddie’s ear; don’t want Mom Dukes or Mars to hear this part. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z We explored each planet, in order of increasing distance from the sun: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Pluto. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z And Maniac knew that despite the swagger and the scowl and the chocolate stogie, Mars Bar Thompson was one uneasy dude. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z If Mars Bar cranked up the pace just a notch, Maniac would pick it up within a stride; if Maniac inched ahead, Mars Bar was there. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He would have a private horticultural war with Mars. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z As we move out past Mars we enter a very different regime— the realm of Jupiter and the other giant or jovian planets. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The voices of Mars and Ares yelled in his head, urging him to kill Nico and the man in denim and anyone else he could find, but Frank forced down the noise. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “Reading about the auction of the Mars, eh? Did you ever see the auction of a prize ship?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z They should have had an orientation program before they came to Mars to tell them how to look and how to walk around and be good for a few days. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Only the greatest hero could ask such a boon, Mars said. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z We have now sent reconnaissance satellites into orbit around Mars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z If my essay wins, then the new Mars rover that launches next year will be called Persistence! Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z He concluded that Mars was inhabited by a civilization far more advanced than Earth’s. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Some had heard about life on Mars and accepted that the creatures had come to Earth. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z “We must obey the wishes of Mars Ultor. That means certain... adjustments.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “Weren’t you listening last night, Octavian? Mars was pretty clear. We’re going to the land beyond the gods—Alaska.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “We accept Frank Zhang, Son of Mars, to the Twelfth Legion Fulminata for his first year of service. Do you pledge your life to the senate and people of Rome?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z There were only six planets known in Kepler’s time: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z "There's going to be a change in your responsibilities. From now on, instead of managing the satellites around Mars, your sole responsibility is watching Mark Watney." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In this chapter we have looked at a series of local histories: Kepler’s efforts to make accurate measurements of Mars; the introduction of the word ‘fact’ into English; the weapon salve. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Others, like Schiaparelli, had already observed something like the canals; they were called canali before Lowell began his lifelong love affair with Mars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He could see Mars Bar’s foot sticking out, trying to trip him up as he circled the bases for a home run. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It's critical to the potato farm, and I'm the only source on Mars. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z There isn't a lot of water here on Mars. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Carrying the javelin, he led a procession to the Field of Mars. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Internal geological processes slowly deform the surfaces of Venus, Mars, Ganymede and Europa, as well as Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Mars was always quiet, but quieter tonight than any other. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z His conclusion was that life on Mars—by this he meant civil engineers with an interest in hydraulics—was impossible. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “He doesn’t understand yet,” Pris said in a sharp, brittle, stentorian voice, “how we got off Mars. What we did there.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z They marched north, skirting the edge of the city, and headed to the Field of Mars—the largest, flattest part of the valley. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z But keeping his own cool, matching Mars Bar glare for glare, telling him he wasn’t as bad as he thought he was. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z So at first Kepler tried to explain the observations by imagining that the Earth and Mars moved in circular orbits about the Sun. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The pain wasn't bad, but there aren't any chiropractors on Mars, so I wasn't taking chances. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He gazed across the valley, where construction crews were working in the Field of Mars, building fortifications for tonight’s games. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Mr. Matthews explained how some of the rocks on Mars received their names. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z For his new tale, Wells was inspired by astronomers who proposed that life existed on Mars. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Coming up to him, Mars Bar said, “Where you runnin’, boy?” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z "Never occurred to us. We never thought someone would be on Mars without an MAV." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Turns out being on the surface of Mars for a few million years eliminates all the water in the soil. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “I gotta go,” he said, and before Mars Bar could react, he was over the fence and hurrying for the lean-to. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mars has been visiting me these last few days, keeping me company. He told me of your quest. Find Death in Alaska and release him. Do your duty.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z But the Pickwells persisted, and when they reached Marshall Street, Mars Bar commanded, “Stay here,” and stepped into the traffic. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He could see Mars Bar charging from behind to tackle him, even when he didn’t have the football. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z "You guys still have that map of Mars on the wall?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Suffice it to say we got to Mars 124 days later without strangling each other. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I was the fifth crewman out of the MDV when we landed, making me the seventeenth person to set foot on Mars. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘A child of Mars, are you? A praetor of Rome? No true Roman would spare the Greeks. I cannot abide to be split and confused - I cannot think straight! Kill them! Win!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z In our time we have sifted the sands of Mars, we have established a presence there, we have fulfilled a century of dreams! Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Mars rolled his hand in a “go on” gesture. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z She grabbed the book and started kicking Mars Bar in his beloved sneakers. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But how do we explain the apparent motion of the planets—Mars, for example, which had been known for thousands of years before Ptolemy’s time? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Having traveled along Mars Highway 1 all day, I'm back at my campsite from yesterday. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z "We are the first to visit Mars twice." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But might we be able to live on Mars? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Maniac wanted Mars Bar to see the best the West End had to offer. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Could we in some sense make Mars habitable? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The mysteries of Mars have, if anything, deepened since Lowell’s day. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z One thing you can say about Mars: It's really cold. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z There is, for example, the red planet Mars, with soaring volcanoes, great riff valleys, enormous planet-wide sandstorms, and, just possibly, some simple forms of life. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Grandmother said I had gifts —some talent we got from our ancestor, the Argonaut. That, and my dad’s being Mars...” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Mars has days and nights of about the same length as ours, and seasons which last twice as long. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Mars clearly didn’t know the first thing about him. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Called the Red Planet by early astronomers, Mars is actually sandy orange in color. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Her brother, Mars—Dad and Papi let Sunnie choose the names, and I kid you not, she named the babies Mars and Jupiter—died when they were seventeen days old. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z I've got lots of them, specially made for working on Mars. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked up at the summer stars, at blue Venus and red Mars. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Mars has become a kind of mythic arena onto which we have projected our earthly hopes and fears. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Mars and Ares were trying to outsing each other with “Dixie” and “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Then, rounding the corner to the break room, he pointed to the Mars map on the wall. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Mars could do nothing to them, for they were bred to plains and prairies as open as the Martian fields. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘I mean, no combination is going to be perfect, but Poseidon, Hephaestus, Pluto, Mars ... I don’t see any huge antagonism there.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z |
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