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Mars (disambiguation)
Mars can refer to different things:
- Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun.
- Mars was the god of war in Roman mythology.
- Mars, Incorporated is a confectioner, and the Mars Bar is the name of a candy bar they produce.
- "Mars, the Bringer of War" is a movement in Gustav Holst's The Planets suite.
- Mars was a short-lived No Wave band.
- Mars is the title of a manga comic book.
- Mars is an actor from Hong Kong, member of the Jackie Chan stuntman team.
- Technology
- Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Mars.
- The Mars probe program was a series of unmanned craft launched by the Soviet Union in the early 1970s.
- Mars was the code name for a family of PDP-10-compatible computers built by Systems Concepts.
- In cryptography, MARS is a block cipher designed by IBM, and one of the finalists for the Advanced Encryption Standard.
- MARS can stand for Military Affiliate Radio System , an auxiliary communications system for the United States armed forces
- Places
- Mars is a borough located in Butler County, Pennsylvania
- Mars Hill is a town in Aroostook County, Maine
- Mars' Hill is an obsolete translation, used for instance in the Authorised Version of the Acts of the Apostles, for the Areopagus (Hill of Ares) in Athens.
- Mars is a commune in the Ardèche département, in France.
- Mars is a commune in the Gard département, in France.
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