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Mars Hill Church

Mars Hill Church was a New Calvinist, complementarian multisite megachurch founded in Seattle in 1996 by Mark Driscoll, growing to 15 campuses in five states before dissolving in 2014.

Mars in fiction

Mars in fiction is the body of novels, films, and radio works set on the planet. It dates to 17th-century speculation and later the late 19th century.

Mars landing

A Mars landing, also called landing on Mars, is the delivery of a spacecraft onto the Martian surface. The Soviet Mars 3 made the first soft landing in 1971.

Mars Needs Moms (2011) is a Disney/ImageMovers performance-capture animated film directed by Simon Wells, based on Berkeley Breathed's book, about Milo rescuing his mother from Martians; it grossed $21.4 million domestically and ended the ImageMovers partnership.

Mars Observer

Mars Observer was a NASA Mars orbiter launched in 1992, the first US Mars mission in 17 years, to map the planet's surface and atmosphere from near-polar orbit.

Mars One

Mars One was a Dutch nonprofit founded by Bas Lansdorp that announced in 2012 a plan for one-way human missions to Mars; its commercial arm went bankrupt in 2019.

Mars Orbiter Mission

The Mars Orbiter Mission, also called Mangalyaan, was an Indian Mars orbiter launched by ISRO in 2013 that succeeded on its first attempt and operated about eight years.

Oct 22, 2026

Mars Organic Molecule Analyzer

The Mars Organic Molecule Analyzer (MOMA) is a mass spectrometer on ESA's ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover, designed to detect organic molecules in drilled Martian samples.

Mars Pathfinder

Mars Pathfinder, also called MESUR Pathfinder, was a NASA Discovery-class mission that landed on Mars on July 4, 1997, deploying the small rover Sojourner to study rocks.

Mars Polar Lander

Mars Polar Lander, also known as the Mars Surveyor '98 Lander, was a NASA lander launched in 1999 to dig for water ice near Mars' south pole.

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is a multipurpose NASA orbiter launched in 2005 that images Mars in finer detail than any previous spacecraft and relays data from its rovers.

Mars rover

A Mars rover, or Martian rover, is a motorized vehicle that explores the surface of Mars. NASA's five rovers include Sojourner (1997) and Perseverance (2021).

Mars Sample Return

Mars Sample Return is a joint NASA and ESA campaign, now under redesign, to bring Martian rock samples collected by the Perseverance rover in Jezero Crater to Earth.

Mars Science Laboratory

Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) is a NASA robotic mission that landed the car-sized Curiosity rover in Gale Crater on Mars in 2012 to assess past habitability.

Mars Society

The Mars Society is an international nonprofit founded by Robert Zubrin in 1998 advocating human Mars exploration and settlement, operating the MDRS and FMARS analog stations, the University Rover Challenge, and the annual International Mars Society Convention.

MARS study

MARS (Molecular Diagnosis and Risk Stratification of Sepsis, NCT01905033) is a Dutch prospective ICU cohort study (Amsterdam AMC and UMC Utrecht, from 2011) that produced sepsis endotypes Mars1-4 and the SeptiCyte assay; distinct from MARS-India.

Mars trilogy

The Mars trilogy is a sequence of three science fiction novels by Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars, covering the colonization and terraforming of Mars.

Mars-500

Mars-500 was a series of ground-based isolation experiments by Russia's Institute of Biomedical Problems simulating a crewed Mars mission, including a 520-day study with six volunteers from 2010 to 2011.

Oct 22, 2026

Mars–van Krevelen mechanism in N2 reduction on nitrides

The Mars–van Krevelen mechanism in nitrogen reduction is a catalytic pathway in which lattice nitrogen of a metal nitride is released as ammonia and replenished by gaseous N2.

Mars, Aedes

Mars, Aedes (Latin, aedis Martis) was a temple of the god Mars on the Via Appia outside Rome's walls, where troops assembled and the cavalry parade began.

Mars, Incorporated

Mars, Incorporated: American family-owned maker of M&M'S, Snickers, Pedigree, and Royal Canin, founded 1911 in Tacoma, Washington; $65B+ revenue, ~170,000 Associates, McLean, Virginia headquarters, Kellanova acquired 2025.

MARS1

MARS1 (methionyl-tRNA synthetase 1, formerly MARS) is a human class I aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase gene at 12q13.3 that charges tRNA with methionine; biallelic variants cause infantile interstitial lung and liver disease, while dominant CMT2U claims are rated Limited.

Marsa El Brega LNG Terminal

Marsa El Brega LNG Terminal is a liquefied natural gas export terminal at Brega on Libya's Gulf of Sirte, opened by Esso in 1970 as the world's third LNG export plant and mothballed since 2011.

Marsabit

Marsabit is a county in northern Kenya bordering Ethiopia and the second largest in the country, with its capital at Marsabit town and largest town Moyale.

Marsai Martin

Marsai Martin (Caila Marsai Martin, born 2004, Plano, Texas) is an American actress and producer; Diane Johnson on Black-ish, youngest EP of a major Hollywood film with Little (2019), Guinness World Record holder, Genius Productions founder.

Marsala

Marsala, western Sicily's largest town in Trapani province, stands on ancient Lilybaeum, founded by Motya's Phoenician refugees in 397 BC; known for Garibaldi's 1860 landing and fortified Marsala wine (over 17 degrees).

Sep 19, 2026

Marsala Punic ship

The Marsala Punic ship is a Carthaginian vessel found off Marsala, Sicily, in 1971 by Honor Frost's team, likely lost at the end of the First Punic War.

Marsala wine

Marsala wine: Sicilian fortified wine from Marsala in western Sicily, begun by John Woodhouse in 1773 and made a DOC in 1969; styles run from Fine to Vergine Stravecchio, dry to sweet, in the 15 to 18 percent EU band.