Mars

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• WordNet 3.6
  • n Mars a small reddish planet that is the 4th from the sun and is periodically visible to the naked eye; minerals rich in iron cover its surface and are responsible for its characteristic color "Mars has two satellites"
  • n Mars (Roman mythology) Roman god of war and agriculture; father of Romulus and Remus; counterpart of Greek Ares
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ORBITS OF MARS, THE EARTH, VENUS, AND MERCURY

ORBITS OF THE EARTH AND MARS

• Interesting fact: Mars is the home of Olympus Mons, the largest known volcano in our solar system
• • Mars (Astron) One of the planets of the solar system, the fourth in order from the sun, or the next beyond the earth, having a diameter of about 4,200 miles, a period of 687 days, and a mean distance of 141,000,000 miles. It is conspicuous for the redness of its light.
  • Mars (Rom. Myth) The god of war and husbandry.
  • Mars (Alchemy) The metallic element iron, the symbol of which ♂ was the same as that of the planet Mars.
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• Interesting fact: The name "Snickers" for the popular candy bar was named after a horse that the Mars family owned
• • n Mars A Latin deity, identified at an early period by the Romans with the Greek Ares, with whom he had originally no connection. He was principally worshiped as the god of war, and as such bore the epithet Gradivus; but he was earlier regarded as a patron of agriculture, which procured him the title of Silvanus, and as the protector of the Roman state, in virtue of which he was called Quirinus. In works of art Mars is generally represented as of a youthful but powerful figure, armed with the helmet, shield, and spear; in other examples he is bearded and heavily armed. See cut under Ares.
  • n Mars The planet next outside the earth in the solar system. Its diameter (about 4,200 miles) is only 0.53 that of the earth, its superficies 0.28, and its volume 0.147. Its mean density is 0.71 that of the earth, so that the density of its crust may very likely be about the same as the earth's; but the weight of a given mass at the surface of Mars is only three eighths of the weight of the same mass on the earth. The strength of materials is therefore relatively much greater there, and mountains, animals, and buildings would naturally be much larger. The mean distance from the sun is 141,500,000 miles. The eccentricity of its orbit is very much greater than that of the earth, being 0.093 in place of 0.017; the inclination of its equator to its orbit is about the same. Its day is half an hour longer than ours. Its year is 687 of our days. The surface of Mars has been carefully mapped, and is characterized by the predominance of land and the great number of canals or straits. Its color is strikingly red. Its climate is, perhaps, not very different from that of the earth. It has two moons, discovered by Professor Asaph Hall in Washington in 1877, conformably to the prediction of Kepler, and realizing the fancies of Swift and of Voltaire. The inner of these, Phobos, revolves in less than 8 hours, so that to an observer on the planet it rises in the west and sets in the east; the outer, Deimos, revolves in 30 hours, so that it appears nearly stationary for a long time. The symbol of Mars is ♂, which seems to show the shield and spear of the god.
  • n Mars In old chemistry, iron.
  • n Mars In heraldry, the tincture red, when blazoning is done by the planets: see blazon.
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• Interesting fact: The largest volcano known is on Mars: Olympus Mons, 370 miles wide and 79,000 feet high, is almost three times higher than Mount Everest
• • n Mars märz the Roman god of war: the planet next to the earth in the order of distance from the sun.
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• Victor Hugo

  

  “Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.”
• Source Unknown

  

  “They are as much for Mars, as for Mercury; as well qualified for war, as for business.”
• Hosea Ballou

  

  “A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.”
• F. Scott Fitzgerald

  

  “The intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.”
• William Shakespeare

  

  “Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.”
• Seneca

  

  “So enjoy present pleasures as to not mar those to come.”

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