Sculpture of a Wellsian Martian Tripod in the town of Woking.

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However, a Martian is more usually a hypothetical or fictional native inhabitant of the planet Mars. Historically, life on Mars has often been hypothesized, although there is currently no solid evidence of life there at present. Some scientists have theorized that there is meteorite evidence of fossilised microbes.^[1][2] Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... This article is about the astronomical term. ... Adjectives: Martian Atmosphere Surface pressure: 0. ... An electron microscope reveals bacteria-like structures in meteorite fragment ALH84001 For other uses of Life on Mars, see Life on Mars (disambiguation). ... Willamette Meteorite A meteorite is a natural object originating in outer space that survives an impact with the Earths surface without being destroyed. ...

History of the concept

The planet Mars

The idea of intelligent Martians was popularized by Percival Lowell^[3] and in fiction, especially by Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter (Barsoom) Series, H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds and Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles. Despite the observation by Alfred Wallace that Mars' atmosphere was too thin to support an Earth-like ecology, various depictions of a Martian civilization were popular throughout the 20th century. The first pictures of Mars returned by space probes dashed hopes of contacting Martians, although dubious claims of past Martian civilizations have continued into the twenty-first century (see Cydonia for one such claim). Image File history File links Mars_Hubble. ... Image File history File links Mars_Hubble. ... Percival Lowell (March 13, 1855 – November 12, 1916) was an author, mathematician, and esteemed astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars, founded the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, and formed the beginning of the work and theories that led to the discovery of Pluto 14 years after... Edgar Rice Burroughs Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan, although he also produced works in many genres. ... In 1911, Edgar Rice Burroughs, now best known as the creator of the character Tarzan, began his writing career with A Princess of Mars, a rousing tale of pulp adventure on the planet Barsoom or Mars. ... A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, McClurg, 1917 Barsoom is a fictional version of the planet Mars invented by author Edgar Rice Burroughs for a series of action adventure stories. ... H. G. Wells at the door of his house at Sandgate Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 - August 13, 1946) was an English writer best known for his science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine. ... The War of the Worlds (1898), by H. G. Wells, is an early science fiction novel (or novella) which describes an invasion of England by aliens from Mars. ... Ray Douglas Bradbury (born August 22, 1920) is an American literary, fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer best known for The Martian Chronicles, a 1950 book which has been described both as a short story collection and a novel, and his 1953 dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, is widely considered... The Martian Chronicles is a 1950 science fiction novel by Ray Bradbury that chronicles the colonization of Mars by humans fleeing from a troubled Earth, and the conflict between aboriginal Martians and the new colonists. ... Alfred Russel Wallace Alfred Russel Wallace (January 8, 1823 — November 7, 1913) was a British naturalist, geographer, anthropologist and biologist. ... Atmosphere is the general name for a layer of gases that may surround a material body of sufficient mass. ... This article is about Earth as a planet. ... For the journal, see Ecology (journal). ... Central New York City. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999... For images in Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Images. ... The Cydonia Region taken by the Viking 1 orbiter and released by NASA/JPL on July 25, 1976 (north is to the upper right). ...

The real Martians

Main article: Life on Mars

Because of the prevalence of stories containing Martians, the idea of the Martian was for much of the 20th century the default identity of extraterrestrial characters in popular culture. If Mars is colonized in the future by humans, the generations descended from the settlers may well be called Martians. Some members of the Mars Society, an organization devoted to such colonization, semi-humorously describe themselves as "Martians in exile".^{[citation needed]} An electron microscope reveals bacteria-like structures in meteorite fragment ALH84001 For other uses of Life on Mars, see Life on Mars (disambiguation). ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999... “Green people” redirects here. ... Mars Mars is the focus of much speculation and serious study about possible human colonization. ... This article is about modern humans. ... A family of Russian settlers in the Caucasus region, ca. ... Mars Society logo. ...

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Martians in fiction

The Martian was a favorite character of classical science fiction; he was frequently found away from his home planet, often invading Earth, but sometimes simply a lonely character representing alienness from his surroundings. Martians, other than human beings transplanted to Mars, became rare in fiction after the visit of the space probe Mariner 4 to Mars, except in exercises of deliberate nostalgia - more frequently in genres such as comics and animation than in written literature. Mariner 4 (Mariner-Mars 1964) was the fourth in a series of spacecraft used for planetary exploration in a flyby mode and performed the first successful flyby of the planet Mars, returning the first pictures of the Martian surface. ...

Literary Martians

• The War of the Worlds (1898) by H. G. Wells. The Martians are an ancient, advanced race with a tentacled, squid-like appearance. They produce a "red weed", which is what was giving Mars its red color. They invade Earth, in huge tripedal "fighting machines" armed with "heat rays" and "black smoke" (a kind of poison gas), against which human armies of the time are helpless, conquer London and much of England (and possibly other countries as well), use human beings as food, but are overcome by terrestrial microbes.
• There were many "additions" to the Wells novel, for example Sherlock Holmes War of the Worlds which describes the adventures of Holmes and Watson in Martian-occupied London. Kevin Anderson edited the anthology "War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches" which describes the events of the Martian invasion as experienced in France, Italy, Russia, India, China, Texas, Alaska, Equatorial Africa and other locations.
• Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote a series of books depicting his character John Carter on Mars. In his novels, he refers to Mars as Barsoom.
• Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men, a vast future history published in 1930 and spanning billions of years, includes a long and carefully worked-out account of several Martian invasions of Earth over a period of tens of thousands of years. Stapledon's Martians - sentient cloudlets composed of countless microscopic particles and capable of drifting across interplanetary space - are completely different from Wells', yet the book shows his influence and follows the general scheme of a drying and dying Mars and of Martians seeking the warmer and wetter Earth. Much later in the book, the humans themselves flee the dying Earth, invade and colonise Venus and exterminate its native intelligent species.
• C. S. Lewis wrote, in Out of the Silent Planet, about three humans visiting Mars, and there meeting two different kinds of native intelligent creatures, sorns and hrossa, as well as hunting hnakra and meeting the Oyarsa, or eldil in charge of this planet, called Malacandra in the Old Solar language.
• Raymond Z. Gallun's Seeds of the Dusk, published in 1938, shows the influence of both Wells and Stapledon, but with a special original twist. In the far future, Earth is invaded by sentient plants from Mars, whose specialty is to make use of planets in their "dusk" - i.e., still liveable but nearing their end. (These plants had actually originated on Ganymede, in the distant past, went on to Mars, continued after long aeons to Earth, and would continue on to Venus when Earth had died too). In this case the invasion is successful and it is the Itorloo, distant descendants of Mankind, who are exterminated by a plague microbe artificially produced by the invaders. But the Itorloo had been an arrogant race, extremely cruel to sentient bird and rodent races which shared the Earth of their time, while the new plant dominant species leaves these alone - so that the reader is left to conclude that on balance, the change might be for the better.
• In four stories by Eric Frank Russell published in the early 1940s and collected in the classic Men Martians and Machines, humans together with very likable Martians are shipmates who go out together into interstellar space, and guard each other's back while encountering various other aliens. Not accidentally, Russell's humans included blacks as well as whites - quite unusual for the time. The book can be credited with starting the SF sub-genre of spaceships with a mixed human and non-human crew, which was to reach great popularity with Star Trek. Russell's martians are chess-loving octopoids, with tentacles extending down and out from a central head with large eyes. They can survive in Earth-normal air, but prefer to don low-pressure helmets for comfort. Read today, their description is amusingly similar to that of Kang & Kodos in The Simpsons.
• Ray Bradbury's short story The Concrete Mixer (1949) inverts the idea of a Martian invasion: the invaders are welcomed with open arms, and fall victim to a not overtly hostile but nonetheless deadly alien culture -- that of Earth.
• John Wyndham dealt with Martians in two short stories, Time to Rest (1949) and Dumb Martian (1952).

Cover of the Spanish version of the book Martians, Go Home

• Fredric Brown wrote Martians, Go Home (1955), a spoof of Wells' Martian invasion concept.
• Many "invasion of Earth" stories owe much to Wells, even when their invaders come from elsewhere in the cosmos. The derivation is especially clear in John Christopher's trilogy The Tripods (1967-1968), depicting boys born on an alien-occupied Earth and dedicating themselves to overthrowing the cruel invaders - who, like Wells' Martians, move about in huge three-legged machines, towering high above the countryside.
• Robert A. Heinlein repeatedly used Martians (usually, human beings born and bred on Mars) as characters in his novels and short stories, including:
  • Double Star (1956). The issue of giving Martians the vote becomes a central issue in Earth politics, and the hero eventually overcomes both his own deep-rooted anti-Martian prejudice and the entrenched political power of the bigots, and helps enfranchise the downtrodden Martians (publication of this book coincided with the early Civil Rights Movement of the Blacks in the US South).
  • Stranger in a Strange Land (1961). An Earthman raised on Mars returns to Earth and creates chaos. Concerned with philosophical and religious subjects.
  • Podkayne of Mars (1963). Takes place in space and on Venus, but the main characters originate from a Mars that has been colonized by humans and is an important player in Solar System diplomacy.

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Film, television, and radio Martians

Monument commemorating where the martians "landed" in Van Ness Park, New York

• The October 30, 1938 radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds. This broadcast was the cause of much confusion when it was aired, with people believing an actual Martian invasion was taking place
• Looney Tunes – Included the cartoon character Marvin the Martian (1948-), a comic foil to Warner Bros. mainstays Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck in several animated shorts.
• Red Planet Mars (1952) - Scientist Peter Graves contacts Martians by radio, they respond by preaching Christianity and thus Communism is defeated.
• Invaders from Mars (1953) – A film, remade in 1986.
• Quatermass and the Pit (1958-9) - A British television serial in which a crashed spacecraft is discovered in London, which reveals that humanity on Earth is the result of experiments by a Martian civilisation, now long dead. It was remade as a film in 1967.
• My Favorite Martian (1963-1966) – A television comedy series and film.
• Doctor Who -Includes a race native to the planet Mars known as the Ice Warriors
• Captain Scarlet (1967-1968) – The Martians at war with Earth are the Mysterons — an invisible race of superbeings hell-bent on revenge after an unprovoked attack on their Martian city by Captain Black, a Spectrum agent investigating strange alien signals.
• Spaced Invaders (1990) – A sci-fi comedy in which dim-witted Martians attempt to invade a small Illinois town during a re-broadcast of Orson Welles 1938 "War of the Worlds".
• Biker Mice from Mars (1993-1995) – A cartoon series about three Martian Mice who crash-land on Earth after their ship is attacked by their enemies, the fish-like Plutarkians. The Mice --leader Throttle, gentle-giant Modo, and wild-mouse Vinnie-- decide to remain on Earth to fight the Plutarkian Lawerence Limburger, who threatens Chicago.

Mars Attacks!

• Mars Attacks! (1996), – A satirical film directed by Tim Burton, based on the equally satirical, unpunctuated Topps trading card series Mars Attacks (1962); see below in other media).

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Martians in comics

• In the DC Comics universe, the Martian Manhunter (J'onn J'onzz) (1955) is a superhero and member of the Justice League. In at least some variations, he is believed to be the last of his race. Other DC creations include Miss Martian and the White Martians.
• In the future world of Marvel Comics' Killraven (1973-), the Martian Masters who orchestrated the invasion in The War of the Worlds returned to Earth a century later and conquered it; they were overthrown by rebels led by the psychic human Jonathan Raven, alias Killraven.
• Mark Starks' Martian is a superhero graphic novel published in 2006. "Martian" is an intergalactic cop who patrols the galaxy with his female Earthling partner, Terra.
• Mr. Martian of Big Bang Comics is an exile from Mars.
• Martians are also rarely-seen protagonists in the web-comic It's Walky. In IW, Martians have left their dying world, denied themselves the opportinity to invade Earth, and founded a galactic-wide empire. They return to take vengeance on Humanity when the few martians on Earth are killed in an elaborate set-up by an alternate dimensions Human refugees.
• One of the central themes in Irregular Webcomic! features a small group of Martians, represented by Lego figurines.
• A Martian dragon appears in the fiction-within-a-fiction story "The Heterodyne Boys and the Dragon from Mars", from the steampunk webcomic Girl Genius.

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Martians in video games

• LucasArts' 1988 graphic adventure game Zak McCracken and the Alien Mindbenders deals with Martians looking to make everybody on Earth totally stupid with a device that nulls brainwaves. It's hidden in the face on Mars.
• In the video game Destroy All Humans! (2005), it is mentioned that the Martians were wiped out by the Furons, And that in the sequil you wipe out their allies "the Blisk".
• In the video game Radical Dreamers, the main villain appears as a giant, lime-green, Martian octopus in one scenario. Other references to Mars are made throughout this scenario.
• In the Metal Slug series, the Mars People are very similar to the ones described by H.G. Wells and are constantly trying to conquer Earth. They also make fun of science fiction movies and strange phenomenon.
• In the turned-based tactics game X-COM: UFO Defense the alien invaders use Mars as a base of operations in which to launch UFO attacks on Earth.
• LucasArts/Konami video game: "zombies ate my neighbors" in some levels appear martians as big Green Brained humanoids carring a Bubble Gun also a Martian Space Ship appear; several Levels have names of 80´s B-movies like: "Martians GO Home!", "The Day of the earth ran away", "Martians need Cheerleadears"

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Martians in other media

• The 1962 trading card series Mars Attacks (no exclamation point, unlike the 1996 film based on it) depicts an invasion of Earth by hideous, skeletal Martians. The exaggerated, satirical violence of the series made it a cult favorite.
• The Misfits have various songs related to Martians.
• The Red Hot Chili Peppers have a song entitled "Death of a Martian"

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See also

• Extraterrestrial life
• Mars in fiction
• Martian scientist
• Venusian

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References

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Geography	Albedo features · Atmosphere · Canals · List of canals · Climate · Geology · Geography · Life · North Polar Basin Mountains: By height · Echus Montes · Elysium Planitia Volcanoes: Alba Patera · Albor Tholus · Arsia Mons · Ascraeus Mons · Biblis Patera · Elysium Mons · Hecates Tholus · Olympus Mons · Pavonis Mons · Syrtis Major · Tharsis · Tharsis Montes Regions: Cydonia Mensae · Planum Boreum · Planum Australe · Cerberus Hemisphere · Vastitas Borealis · Iani Chaos · Memnonia · Tharsis · Ultimi Scopuli Craters: Hellas Planitia · Argyre Planitia · Schiaparelli · Gusev · Eberswalde · Eagle Caves: Caves of Mars Project · Arsia Mons Geologic features: Martian spherules · Martian spiders · Swiss cheese features · Carbonates Adjectives: Martian Atmosphere Surface pressure: 0. ... The relative sizes of and distance between Mars, Phobos, and Deimos, to scale. ... Phobos (IPA: or [ˈfoÊŠ.bÉ™s]) (systematic designation: ) is the larger and closer of Mars two moons (the other being Deimos). ... Deimos (IPA or ; Greek Δείμος: Dread), is the smaller and outermost of Mars’ two moons, named after Deimos from Greek Mythology. ... The relative sizes of and distance between Mars, Phobos, and Deimos, to scale. ... The discovery of the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, occurred in 1877 when American astronomer Asaph Hall, Sr. ... This is a list of geological features on Phobos and Deimos, the moons of Mars. ... Stickney crater (at left), with radiating grooves Stickney at top in sunlight, imaged by Mars Global Surveyor Stickney crater is the largest crater on Phobos, which is a satellite of Mars. ... Phobos and Deimos, the two moons of Mars, are locations frequently mentioned in works of science fiction. ... Image File history File links Mars_Hubble. ... The classical albedo features of Mars are those light and dark features which can be seen on the planet Mars through an Earth-based telescope. ... Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun, has a very different atmosphere from that of Earth. ... For a time in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it was believed that there were canals on Mars. ... The canals were named, by Schiaparelli and others, after real and legendary rivers of various places on Earth or the mythological underworld. ... False colour view of a landslide in Zunil crater The geology of Mars, also known as areology (from Greek: Ἂρης, ArÄ“s, Ares; and λόγος, logos, knowledge), refers to the study of the composition, structure, physical properties, history and the processes that shape the planet Mars. ... An electron microscope reveals bacteria-like structures in meteorite fragment ALH84001 For other uses of Life on Mars, see Life on Mars (disambiguation). ... The North Polar Basin is a large basin in the northern region on Mars. ... This is a list of all the named mountains on Mars. ... Olympus Mons 27km Ascraeus Mons 11km Pavonis Mons 7km Alba Patera 3km Categories: Lists of mountains by height | Mars ... Echus Montes is a large mountain on Mars at 6. ... Elysium Planitia is the second largest volcanic region on Mars, after Tharsis Montes. ... Alba Patera is a unique volcanic feature to the north of the Tharsis region of Mars, an enormous shield volcano roughly 1600 kilometers in diameter but only ~3 kilometers tall at its highest point. ... topography of Albor Tholus and its neighbourhood Albor Tholus is an extinct volcano in the Elysium Planitia area on Mars. ... Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech Arsia Mons is the southernmost of three volcanos (collectively known as Tharsis Montes) on the Tharsis bulge near the equator of the planet Mars. ... Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech Ascraeus Mons is the northernmost of three volcanos (collectively known as Tharsis Montes) on the Tharsis bulge near the equator of the planet Mars. ... Biblis Patera is an extinct Martian volcano located at 2. ... Elysium Mons is a volcano on Mars located in the Elysium Planitia, at 25°N, 213°W, in the Martian eastern hemisphere. ... Hecates Tholus is a Martian volcano, notable for results from the European Space Agencys Mars Express mission which indicate a major eruption took place 350 million years ago. ... Olympus Mons (Latin, Mount Olympus) is the tallest known volcano and mountain in our solar system, located on the planet Mars at approximately . ... Pavonis Mons is the middle of three volcanos (collectively known as Tharsis Montes) on the Tharsis bulge near the equator of the planet Mars. ... Syrtis Major is a dark spot (an albedo feature) located in the boundary between the northern lowlands and southern highlands of Mars. ... Clouds hover over the volcano peaks of the Tharsis region in this color mosaic image. ... The three volcanoes that comprise Tharsis Montes: Arsia Mons is southernmost; Pavonis Mons is at center; Ascraeus Mons is at north. ... The Cydonia Region taken by the Viking 1 orbiter and released by NASA/JPL on July 25, 1976 (north is to the upper right). ... Viking mosaic of Planum Boreale and surrounds. ... Planum Australe, taken by Mars Global Surveyor. ... Mosaic of the Cerberus hemisphere of Mars Cerberus Hemisphere is a part of Mars geography and refers to the area approximately of Latitude: 20° South to 55° North and Longitude: 150° to 230°. Prominent features of the Cerberus Hemisphere include: Amazonis Planitia Cerberus Mangala Valles Utopia Planitia. ... Vastitas Borealis is the largest lowland region of Mars. ... Aram Chaos is the circular depression in the top left. ... Memnonia quadrangle is a region of Mars that covers Latitude -35° to 35° and Longitute 210° to 150°. Mangala Valles is located in the upland region of Memnonia. ... Clouds hover over the volcano peaks of the Tharsis region in this color mosaic image. ... Ultimi Scopuli is a region near the south pole of Mars. ... There are hundreds of thousands of craters on Mars, but only some of them have names. ... NASA image of Hellas Planitia Hellas Planitia, also known as the Hellas Impact Basin, is a roughly circular impact crater located in the southern hemisphere of the planet Mars. ... Argyre Planitia is a plain located in the Argyre impact basin in the southern highlands of Mars between -35 and -61 deg S and 27 and 62 deg W. The basin is approximately 1120 miles (1800 kilometers) wide, the second-largest impact basin on Mars after Hellas Planitia, and drops... Elevation map of Schiaparelli crater, as seen by Mars Global Surveyor. ... Gusev Crater is a meteor crater in Russia. ... Eberswalde crater, formerly known as Holden NE crater, is a partially buried impact crater in Margaritifer Terra, Mars. ... Eagle Crater is the small crater in which the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity found itself after landing on Mars in 2004. ... The Caves of Mars Project is a NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts funded program to assess the best place to situate the research and habitation modules that a manned mission to Mars would require. ... Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech Arsia Mons is the southernmost of three volcanos (collectively known as Tharsis Montes) on the Tharsis bulge near the equator of the planet Mars. ... Spheules still in their originating strata Martian spherules, also known as blueberries, are the abundant spherical hematite inclusions discovered by the Mars rover Opportunity at Meridiani Planum on the planet Mars. ... Martian spiders are geological formations thus far unique to the south polar region of Mars. ... Pits in south polar ice cap, taken in consecutive southern hemesphere summers, the first of which was in 1999, the second in 2001. ... Evidence for carbonates on Mars has remained elusive. ... Miscellany: Eridania Lake · Chaos Terrain · Olympia Undae · Solis Lacus
Meteorites	ALH84001 · Chassigny · Kaidun meteorite · Shergotty meteorite · Nakhla meteorite
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