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Under the influence of Greek culture, Mars was identified with Ares, [135] but the character and dignity of the two deities differed fundamentally. [136] [137] Mars was represented as a means to secure peace, and he was a father (pater) of the Roman people. [138] In one tradition, he fathered Romulus and Remus through his rape of Rhea Silvia.
Mars was the Roman equivalent to Ares. In modern Greek, the planet retains its ancient name Ares (Aris: Άρης). [96] From the surface of Mars, the motions of Phobos and Deimos appear different from that of the Earth's satellite, the Moon. Phobos rises in the west, sets in the east, and rises again in just 11 hours.
Unlike Ares, who was viewed primarily as a destructive and destabilizing force, Mars represented military power as a way to secure peace, and was a father (pater) of the Roman people. [10] In Rome's mythic genealogy and founding , Mars fathered Romulus and Remus through his rape of Rhea Silvia .
Mars in Roman mythology was the God of War and patron of warriors. This symbol is also used in biology to describe the male sex, and in alchemy to symbolise the element iron which was considered to be dominated by Mars whose characteristic red colour is coincidentally due to iron oxide. [16] ♂ occupies Unicode position U+2642.
The Aerial Regional-scale Environmental Survey (ARES) was a proposal by NASA's Langley Research Center to build a robotic, rocket-powered airplane that would fly one mile above the surface of Mars, [1] in order to investigate the atmosphere, surface, and sub-surface of the planet.
Ares I was the crew launch vehicle that was being developed by NASA as part of the Constellation program. [2] The name "Ares" refers to the Greek deity Ares, who is identified with the Roman god Mars. [3] Ares I was originally known as the "Crew Launch Vehicle" (CLV). [4]
Ares, a science fiction wargame magazine. Ares, a large interplanetary spacecraft in the novel Red Mars in the Mars trilogy series; Ares, a NASA spaceflight program in the 2011 novel The Martian and the film adaptation
In English, the planet Mars is named after Mars, the Roman god of war, [1] an association made because of its red color, which suggests blood. [2] The adjectival form of Latin Mars is Martius, [3] from which the English word Martian derives, used as an adjective or for a putative inhabitant of Mars, and Martial, used as an adjective corresponding to Terrestrial for Earth. [4]