Mars
Names: MarsArabia TerraArabia Terra station
First appears in Book 1: Pandora's Star, chapter 1 (PROLOGUE)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Pandora's Star
- Ch 1Humans reached Mars eighty-one years after Apollo 11; the landing site was precisely mapped by satellite and orbital radar.
Book 2: Judas Unchained
- Ch 2Seitz regards it as a worthless frozen desert; its remote instruments were placed by the UFN Science Agency's automated robot ships.
- Ch 2A remote science station on Mars has sent data for twenty years, officially from environmental sensors; its contents are unknown.
- Ch 2The Mars station is not shut down and will transmit again in eight days.
- Ch 6A navy team went through a CST wormhole to Arabia Terra and found nothing unusual beyond the meteorological data.
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 1Eagle II lands on Mars
Wilson separates Eagle II from Ulysses, flies the descent to Arabia Terra and takes manual control to land near the cargo landers, accomplishing the first human Mars landing.
- Book 1 · Ch 1First steps on Mars
Lewis, Orchiston and Wilson climb down the ladder onto the surface; Lewis delivers a speech and photographs his footprint, then they prepare to plant the flag.
- Book 1 · Ch 1Strangers appear through a gateway
A sniggering voice over radio claims to be Nigel Sheldon. Wilson finds him behind the lander in a homemade suit beside a gateway opening onto a Californian physics lab.
- Book 2 · Ch 2Mars lead revealed
Renne reports that the data McFoster collected came from a Guardians-linked remote station on Mars, active for twenty years, whose purpose remains unknown.
- Book 2 · Ch 6Expedition returns to Mars
Wilson, Anna, Nigel and a navy team pass through the old CST gateway to Arabia Terra. Wilson sees the wrecked Eagle II and cargo landers, and searches for the lost flag.
- Book 2 · Ch 6Souvenirs at the Eagle II
On Mars, Nigel, Wilson and Anna argue about the wrecked Eagle II and the old wormhole rivalry before Anna hands them each a pebble.