Flag of Mars "red Mars and two moons in blue field above a diagonal, white below". In Robert A. Heinlein's 1961 science-fiction novel "Stranger in a Strange Land", a flag of Mars is hastily improvised, consisting of "the field in white and the sigil of Mars in red". In The Expanse television series, based on "The Expanse" series of novels by James S. A. Corey, the Martian Congressional Republic is the governing body that rules over the inhabitants of Mars and is one of the two human superpowers in the series. Its flag is reminiscent of Mars and its two moons, Phobos and
Mars Global Surveyor shoot pictures of other orbiting bodies, such as other spacecraft and the moons of Mars. In 1998 it imaged what was later called the Phobos monolith, found in MOC Image 55103. After analyzing hundreds of high-resolution pictures of the Martian surface taken by the orbiting Mars Surveyor spacecraft, a team of researchers found that weathering and winds on the planet create landforms, especially sand dunes, remarkably similar to those in some deserts on Earth. Results from the "Mars Global Surveyor" primary mission (1996–2001) were published in the Journal of Geophysical Research by M. Malin and K. Edgett. Some of these