The name "Mars" is the Latinized (Roman) version of the Greek god Ares, the god of war. In Greek mythology, Deimos and Phobos were Ares' sons, who would accompany him onto the battlefield.

To the Greeks, Ares was seen as the harbinger of doom; to the gods, he was an unpredictable menace. However, from the view of his most favored Romans, Mars/Ares was seen as the mythological ...

On this date, President George W. Bush looks past the shuttle program to push NASA for a return to the moon and Mars.

with a goal of using the lunar surface as a launching point to Mars and beyond. The Bush plan, called Constellation, included the Ares 1 rocket, which would launch an Apollo-era style capsule to ...