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TheMartian Manhunter was a Martian peacekeeper named J'onn J'onzz who lived and worked on the planet Mars before his brother unleashed a pyrokinetic plague upon the planet's populace that caused nearly every citizen on the planet to burst into flames. Left to wander the desolate planet's surface for years, J'onn was brought to Earth by chance via a teleportation machine malfunction.

With strength and power on par with Superman, in addition to his own martian abilities of telepathy and shape-shifting, in the years since his arrival, J'onn has taken steps to fit into Earth's society by turning his hand to heroics as a charter member of the Justice League of America.

Becoming caught up in the public reveal of a new generation of super heroes, J'onn took on the superhero identity "Martian Manhunter" and became a founding member of the Justice League of America.

While willing to work with his new teammates, J'onn felt it necessary to keep files on the metahumans he had yet to become familiar with in case they intended the Earth harm; secretly observing and interacting with them in various civilian identities. While his actions were later discovered by the team, which caused a temporary rift within the team members, he was forgiven following their defeat of the Appellaxians and the Locus organization.

As team members came and left, J'onn remained in the Justice League as it changed headquarters from Happy Harbor to a Satellite, and then reformed as Justice League Detroit and then reformed again as Justice League International. Following the disbanding of Justice League International and its splinter groups, a superhero group known as the Hyperclan arrived on Earth. While initially offering peace and actively working to make the planet a better place, the newest incarnation of the JLA deduced their true motives to enslave the world and that they were actually White Martians. After thwarting their invasion, the JLA built a new perimeter fortress on the moon while J'onn acquired the white martian fortress Z'onn Z'orr to use as his own headquarters.

Following the return of the Kingdom of Atlantis after being enslaved by Atlanteans 3,000 in the past, the JLA took a brief sabbatical, with J'onn approaching Aubrey Sparks (aka Scorch) about curing his fear of fire in exchange for healing her mind. However, as J'onn's relationship with Scorch grew and his weakness against fire receded, J'onn transformed into Fernus the Burning; the original form of the Martians before the Guardians of the Universe altered their genetic makeup to make them less of a threat for the galaxy. As Fernus was defeated by the JLA and J'onn returned to his normal form, the league was faced with moral dilemmas following the murder of Sue Dibny by Jean Lorring and the revelation of the ethically questionable mind wiping that the JLA performed during the "Satellite Years". The breakdown of the team reached its zenith and the team disbanded again, leaving it to J'onn to rebuild the team with Superman's blessing. While in the process of this, J'onn is attacked by Superboy-Prime, who destroys the Watchtower and captures J'onn to use as part of Alexander Luthor Jr's plan to revive the Multiverse.

Following the Infinite Crisis, J'onn confronted Black Adam following his massacre of Bialya; whom he blamed for aiding those who killed his wife, Isis. Unable to quell Adam's rage, Adam subjected J'onn to the horrors of the citizens of Bialya's final moments. Overwhelmed, J'onn fled from the planet to escape the torment and remained recovering in orbit as Adam continued his rampage.

As he recovered, J'onn struggled to reason why he should keep helping the people of Earth when all they do is continually try to kill each other. Coming to the decision that, despite all the evil he has seen, the ones who did good were still worth protecting, J'onn returned to Earth to join the hero community's final battle against Black Adam in China.

ERIC WESTERVELT, HOST: Self-published authors often dream of snagging a big contract with a major publishing house. But after Andy Weir's self-published "The Martian" online, its next stop was not print. Instead, it got picked up by a small Canadian audiobook company. Of course, it was eventually made into a movie and nominated for multiple Oscars. We'll find out tomorrow night how many it wins. NPR's Lynn Neary has our story.LYNN NEARY, BYLINE: When Podium Publishing discovered "The Martian," it was a new and very small audiobook company. Andy Weir was a complete unknown.GREG LAWRENCE: When we talked to Andy Weir, when I talked to him on the phone, he'd never spoken with a publisher before.NEARY: Greg Lawrence, a co-founder of Podium, was on the lookout for the company's first fiction title. A fan of science-fiction, he came upon "The Martian" online. He loved the characters, the writing, the humor.LAWRENCE: It's a story that just grabs you right away - I mean, literally, the first line. And, you know, it's just one of those situations where I felt really engaged immediately, which is always a good sign.NEARY: Lawrence was convinced the story of an astronaut stranded on Mars would have broad appeal. Lawrence's partner, James Tonn, was less impressed.JAMES TONN: Greg sent me a link to his website. And I looked at it, and it was just a blue clickable link - it said "The Martian" on a white background. And I clicked it and my whole screen populated full of text. And that was the book that Greg was asking me to review.NEARY: Tonn had to be persuaded to read the book. But once he did, he was on board. And Podium reached out to the author. Andy Weir says it had never occurred to him to pitch his book to a publishing company. And it didn't bother him at all that he was being approached by an audiobook publisher.ANDY WEIR: I was surprised that anyone was interested. Remember, at this time, I didn't think that the book would have any mainstream appeal. So I thought it was just - oh, you know, it's just a book, you know, by a dork for dorks.NEARY: As it turns out, people loved the story of the marooned astronaut who uses science and math to figure out how to survive. And the journal entries he kept from the moment he was left behind in the storm translated perfectly into audiobook form.UNIDENTIFIED MAN: (Reading) After an hour and a half of sustained wind, NASA gave the order to abort. Nobody wanted to stop a month-long mission after only six days. But if the MAV took any more punishment, we'd all have gotten stranded down there. We had to go out in the storm to get from HAB to the MAV. That was going to be risky, but what choice did we have? Everyone made it but me.NEARY: The growing popularity of Weir's self-published book also caught the attention of Random House, which wanted to make a deal for "The Martian." But, Weir says, there was one small problem. By then, he already had a contract with Podium.WEIR: The contract basically said I couldn't make a print edition of the book. So when Random House started expressing an interest, thankfully, the guys at Podium were just, like, oh, sure, we'll let you buy that back.NEARY: Podium Publishing, said Greg Lawrence, has never had any regrets about its decision to revert the rights back to Weir.LAWRENCE: We weren't looking to grab some rights and then hold onto those at the expense of the author, especially - it's not just the author's livelihood; it's his dream. You know, it's what he wants to do with his life. We didn't have any interest in standing in the way of that.NEARY: But it wasn't all altruistic. James Tonn says they figured the audiobook would likely benefit from the marketing clout of a major publishing house.TONN: We only reverted them back if he got a huge deal, which he ended up getting. And we knew that if they can do it better than us, then let's, you know, make this author's dream come true, get much wider promotion for the book. And hopefully that comes back to help us at some point, which it did.NEARY: One immediate benefit - both contracts required Andy Weir to take down the online version of the book. And that, says Weir, gave the audiobook a big sales boost.WEIR: For about six or eight months or something like that, there was no version of "The Martian" available at all, other than the audiobook. So I think everybody won.NEARY: There have been one more than 100,000 reviews of the audio version of "The Martian," on audible.com. And, Andy Weir says, he's made more money from the audiobook than he has from the movie. Lynn Neary, NPR News, Washington.

Martian Memorandum is the sequel to Mean Streets. Six years have found the private investigator Tex Murphy broke, down on his luck, and seriously in need of a new case. Play Martian Memorandum online!

Unlike its predecessor, the game contains only adventure gameplay, removing flight simulation and action sequences. Basic gameplay mechanics are very similar to those of the first game, placing interrogation and choices above object-based puzzles. Verb commands are used to interact with the environment, while interrogating suspects usually involves selecting conversation options. Making a wrong choice may sometimes prematurely end the game or render it unwinnable.

Formaldehyde has been found in the martian atmosphere, according to a senior scientist working with the Mars Express orbiter. If correct, the discovery provides strong evidence that Mars is either extremely geologically active, or harbouring colonies of microbial life. But many experts are not yet convinced.

The claim comes from Vittorio Formisano, who is in charge of the Planetary Fourier Spectrometer on the European Space Agency's orbiter. The spectrometer analyses infrared light, whose frequencies carry the fingerprints of chemicals in the atmosphere.

The most likely source of formaldehyde (CH2O) is the oxidation of methane (CH4), which has already been identified in the martian skies (see ' Methane found on Mars' ). So the presence of formaldehyde itself is not too surprising, says Michael Mumma, of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre near Washington DC, who studies the martian atmosphere. Any oxidizing atmosphere such as Mars's that contains methane should also have formaldehyde, he explains.

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