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Red Planet Mars is a 1952 American science fiction film released by United Artists starring Peter Graves and Andrea King. It is based on a 1932 play Red Planet written by John L. Balderston and John Hoare and was directed by art director Harry Horner in his directorial debut.
Lost Planet Airmen: Fred C. Brannon: Tristram Coffin, Mae Clarke, I. Stanford Jolley: United States: Action Crime [nb 3] The Man from Planet X: Edgar G. Ulmer: Robert Clarke, Margaret Field, Raymond Bond: United States: Horror Romance Thriller The Man in the White Suit: Alexander Mackendrick: Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Michael ...
In 1952 the technical appendix to "Marsprojekt", which contained projected specifications for the novel's expedition to Mars, was published by West German publisher Umschau Verlag as Das Marsprojekt; the University of Illinois Press brought out the English translation of it the following year, giving it the same title as the full novel, The ...
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun.The surface of Mars is orange-red because it is covered in iron(III) oxide dust, giving it the nickname "the Red Planet". [22] [23] Mars is among the brightest objects in Earth's sky, and its high-contrast albedo features have made it a common subject for telescope viewing.
The three novels are Red Mars (1992), Green Mars (1993), and Blue Mars (1996). The Martians (1999) is a collection of short stories set in the same fictional universe. Red Mars won the BSFA Award in 1992 and Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1993. Green Mars won the Hugo Award for Best Novel and Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in 1994.
New images from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter may show where life first began on Mars. The site on southern Mars shows massive deposits in a basin that scientists say were formed a long ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -NASA's rover Perseverance has gathered data confirming the existence of ancient lake sediments deposited by water that once filled a giant basin on Mars called Jerezo Crater ...
The background of Mars presented in the novel, as a desert planet crisscrossed by giant Martian canals built by an ancient civilization to bring water from the polar ice caps, is a common scenario in science fiction novels of the early 20th century, and was actually put forward as a plausible theory by some astronomers around the turn of the ...