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MARPOL 73/78
MARPOL 73/78, also known as the MARPOL Convention, is the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, adopted in 1973 and in force since 1983.
Marposs
Marposs is an Italian manufacturer of precision measurement, inspection, and testing equipment, founded in Bologna in 1952 by Mario Possati and known for in-process gauging on machine tools.
Marqeta
Marqeta is an American financial technology company headquartered in Oakland, California, founded by Jason Gardner in 2010, providing an open API platform for businesses to issue and manage payment cards.
Marquette Interchange
The Marquette Interchange is a major freeway interchange in downtown Milwaukee, near Marquette University, where I-43, I-94, and I-794 meet; it was rebuilt in 2008 for $810 million.
Marquez
Marquez is an open source metadata service, reference implementation of OpenLineage, for collecting and visualizing data lineage. Released by WeWork, LF AI & Data Graduated, Java and PostgreSQL based.
Marriott Hotels & Resorts
Marriott Hotels & Resorts is the flagship full-service hotel brand of Marriott International, the lodging company founded by J. Willard Marriott that began as a 1927 root beer stand.
Marriott World Trade Center
Marriott World Trade Center (Vista International, 3 WTC): 22-story, 820-room hotel on the southwest corner of the World Trade Center plaza, opened 1981, destroyed September 11, 2001; site now part of the 9/11 Memorial Plaza.
Mars 2020
Mars 2020, also known as the Perseverance mission, is a NASA Mars rover mission that landed in Jezero crater in February 2021 to cache samples for return to Earth.
Mars 96
Mars 96, also designated Mars 8 and originally planned as Mars 94, was a heavy Russian Mars orbiter mission lost when its fourth-stage burn failed and it reentered Earth's atmosphere in November 1996.
Mars Ascent Vehicle
The Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) is a two-stage solid-propellant rocket NASA is developing to launch Martian samples into orbit, the first rocket to launch from another planet.
Mars Climate Orbiter
Mars Climate Orbiter (Mars Surveyor '98 Orbiter) was a NASA orbiter launched in December 1998 to study the Martian atmosphere; it was lost during orbit insertion in September 1999.
Mars Crude Oil Pipeline
The Mars Crude Oil Pipeline is a Shell-operated Gulf of Mexico pipeline, in service since 1996, carrying deepwater crude about 160 miles to storage at Clovelly, Louisiana.
Mars Dune Alpha
Mars Dune Alpha is a 1,700-square-foot 3D-printed habitat at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, built to simulate a Mars surface habitat for yearlong crew missions.
Mars Exploration Rover
The Mars Exploration Rover was a NASA mission that landed the twin rovers Spirit and Opportunity on Mars in 2004 to search for evidence of past water.
Mars G Fontana
Mars Guy Fontana (1910–1988) was an American corrosion engineer, professor, and chairman of metallurgical engineering at Ohio State University, author of the textbook Corrosion Engineering (1967), called the father of modern corrosion science.
Mars Global Surveyor
Mars Global Surveyor was a NASA Mars orbiter launched in 1996 that mapped the planet's surface and magnetic field from orbit for nearly a decade, returning over 240,000 images.
Mars habitat
A Mars habitat, also called a Mars base, is a pressurized structure with life support meant to keep a human crew alive on Mars; none has yet been built.
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 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.
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-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.
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.