History UsefulNotes / MARS

* The film ''TotalRecall''.

* ''MarsAttacks!'' is a rare modern film about a Martian invasion, being essentially an {{homage}} to '50s sci-fi.

** Regarding the gravity question in original Doom: for one, Deimos is [[spoiler:hovering over hell]], and for two, you can't jump in that game, so how would we know?
*** You can't ''jump'' in Doom I or Doom II, but you ''can'' fall by running off a high place. The rate at which one falls is consistent with the 9.8 m/s[[superscript:2]] of Earth surface gravity -- assuming, that is, your SpaceMarine character is normal human height and not (say) two centimeters tall.

* ''{{Out of the Silent Planet}}'' by [=~C. S. Lewis~=].

* The manga ''{{ARIA}}'' is set on Mars a hundred or so years after {{terraform}}ing. Surprisingly, no one lives under domes and most of the planet seems to have been flooded due to melting the ice caps. Mars has been named Aqua, Earth is now called Manhome, and the story happens in the city of Neo-Venizia.

*** You can't ''jump'' in Doom I or Doom II, but you ''can'' fall by running off a high place. The rate at which one falls is consistent with the 9.8 m/s[[superscript:2]] of Earth surface gravity -- assuming, that is, your marine character is normal human height and not (say) two centimeters tall.

* LarryNiven's ''Known Space'' books and stories feature native Martians; to be fair, the first few stories were published just before the Mariner landings. They eventually get [[spoiler:killed off by the KnightTemplar Brennan, who has been mutated into a superintelligent being with inhuman motivations]]. However, ''The Ringworld Engineers'' has some [[spoiler:surviving on the Ringworld's Map of Mars]]. Niven's Martians swim through sand and have alien biochemistry not based on water.

* Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, while touring JPL in 2005, asked if the Mars Pathfinder probe could see the flag planted by the Apollo 11 astronauts. On the Moon.

** Unknown to many, ''Stranger'' is actually a prequel of sorts to RAH's excellent juvenile book called...wait for it.. ''RedPlanet''. ''RedPlanet'' was written decades earlier but featured the same Martians seen in ''Stranger''.

Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, while touring JPL in 2005, asked if the Mars Pathfinder probe could see the flag planted by the Apollo 11 astronauts. On the Moon.

[[caption-width-right:126:[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NeQ1h6lzLI Dun-dun-dun-dun, dun,]] [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome dun-dun-dun]]]]

* The Ice Warriors in ''DoctorWho'' were originally from Mars, even after Martian life was discredited (they were originally from the distant past preserved as [[HumanPopsicle Alien Popsicles]], and later from colonies in outer solar systems). The new series initially only mentioned Mars in passing, for the sake of a few jokes, before eventually setting an episode there.

* The third game in the ''UFOAfterBlank'' series takes place entirely on Mars, as human colonists try to terraform it. Then they're attacked by the remnants of an old Martian Civilization. Then by alien invaders. Then ''more'' alien invaders. Then the Martians come back. And over the course of the game, [[{{Terraforming the red planet slowly turns green]].

[-Since this page was originally named "The Red Planet", quotes for this page can be found at [[Quotes/TheRedPlanet Quotes/TheRedPlanet]].-]

* Played with in ''GeniusTheTransgression'', where the Martian Empire came into existence and began invading Earth [[ScienceMarchesOn the moment the Viking probe landed]]. That version of Mars is a [[AnotherDimension Bardo]], populated by [[TheHeartless Manes]] who insist on continuing to exist despite the fact that they shouldn't.

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* The second and third series of "JourneyIntoSpace" involves a mission to, and the attempt to get back from, Mars.

* Terminal World by AlastairReynolds. * Otis Adelbert Kline wrote a couple of PlanetaryRomance stories set on Mars, which has a Barsoom-type civilization full of swashbuckling and SchizoTech . He does imply that the humans who travel to Mars traveled through time as well as space, and that modern Mars is lifeless.

* Otis Adelbert Kline wrote a couple of PlanetaryRomance stories set on Mars, which has a Barsoom-type civilization full of swashbuckling and SchizoTech . He does imply that the humans who travel to Mars traveled through time as well as space, and that modern Mars is lifeless.