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    The two moons of Mars are Phobos and Deimos. They are irregular in shape. Both were discovered by American astronomer Asaph Hall in August 1877 and are...
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    Almost all water on Mars today exists as polar permafrost ice, though it also exists in small quantities as vapor in the atmosphere. What was thought to...
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    of Mars. The term Martian soil typically refers to the finer fraction of regolith. So far, no samples have been returned to Earth, the goal of a Mars sample-return...
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    Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun, has appeared as a setting in works of fiction since at least the mid-1600s. Trends in the planet's portrayal have...
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    Juicy Fruit (category Products introduced in 1893)
    since 2008 has been a subsidiary of the privately held Mars, Incorporated. It was introduced in 1893, and in the 21st century the brand name is recognized...
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    The composition of Mars covers the branch of the geology of Mars that describes the make-up of the planet Mars. Mars is differentiated, which—for a terrestrial...
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    NASA's Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission was a robotic space mission involving two Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, exploring the planet Mars. It...
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    Wrigley's Spearmint (category Products introduced in 1893)
    Spearmint is a brand of Wrigley's chewing gum. Wrigley's launched the brand in 1893, and marketed the gum as its classic brand, although the company's brand...
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    Gusev is a crater on the planet Mars and is located at 14°30′S 175°24′E / 14.5°S 175.4°E / -14.5; 175.4 and is in the Aeolis quadrangle. The crater...
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    Phobos (moon) (redirect from Mars I)
    Phobos (/ˈfoʊbəs/; systematic designation: Mars I) is the innermost and larger of the two natural satellites of Mars, the other being Deimos. The two moons...
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    The Champ de Mars massacre took place on 17 July 1791 in Paris at the Champ de Mars against a crowd of republican protesters amid the French Revolution...
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    States in 1893. He became determined to study Mars and astronomy as a full-time career after reading Camille Flammarion's La planète Mars. He was particularly...
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    The War of the Worlds The novel opens in the mid-1890s, with aliens on Mars plotting an invasion of Earth after consuming the natural resources of their...
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    the British Astronomical Association (BAA). In 1892, he joined the BAA's Mars Section and became that section's Director in 1896. He became a member of...
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  • 1892(2):978-997. 1894. Voyage de M. E. Simon dans l'Afrique australe (décembre-mars 1893). 1. Haliplidae, Dytiscidae and Gyrinidae. Ann. Soc. Entomol. France 63:227-240...
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  • Ultima: Worlds of Adventure 2: Martian Dreams (category Video games set on Mars)
    cannon that will launch some volunteers to Mars. Through an act of sabotage, the cannon is fired during the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago...
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    P. Smith, University of Arizona, on Mars Pathfinder, 1997 The planet Mars is named after the Roman god of war Mars. In Babylonian astronomy, the planet...
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    Orléans—20 mars 1893". Bulletin des lois de la République Française. XII (in French). 46 (1546). Paris: Imprimerie Nationale: 841–846. 1893. Retrieved...
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    American astronomer who is best known for having discovered the two moons of Mars, Deimos and Phobos, in 1877. He determined the orbits of satellites of other...
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    février 1893, pages 506–507. Statuts de la province de Québec, 56 Victoria, 1893, chapitre LXII, pages 304–306. Gazette officielle de Québec, 25 mars 1893, pages...
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  • Carter, first seen in A Princess of Mars (1917), are military men from the Southern United States who arrive on Mars and have numerous adventures, including...
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    The history of Mars observation is about the recorded history of observation of the planet Mars. Some of the early records of Mars' observation date back...
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  • Imagining Mars: A Literary History is a 2011 non-fiction book by science fiction scholar Robert Crossley [Wikidata]. The book chronicles the history of Mars in...
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    Wrigley Company (category Mars, Incorporated)
    Illinois. Wrigley's is wholly owned by Mars Inc., and, along with Mars chocolate bars and other candy products, makes up Mars Wrigley Confectionery. It is the...
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    Rabe (crater) (category Impact craters on Mars)
    Rabe is a crater on the planet Mars, located in the Noachis quadrangle at 43.9° south latitude 34.9° east longitude. It measures approximately 108 kilometers...
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    NASA's 2003 Mars Exploration Rover Mission has amassed an enormous amount of scientific information related to the Martian geology and atmosphere, as well...
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  • Thumbnail for Émile Bernard chronology
    Bernard establishes an inventory of his paintings (Inventaire fait le 17 Mars 1893, avant de partir en Italie) May: meets Paul Sérusier and Jan Verkade in...
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    372 Palma (redirect from 1893 AH)
    kilometers long). It is in a fixed orbit around the Sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. List of exceptional asteroids "Palma Christi". Oxford English...
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    ships, HMS Majestic, Caesar, Hannibal, Illustrious, Jupiter, Magnificent, Mars, Prince George, and Victorious, were built between 1894 and 1898 as part...
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    (grey hematite, α-Fe2O3) and are found at Meridiani Planum (a large plain on Mars) in exceedingly large numbers. Loose hematite spherules at Eagle Crater....
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