Mars is the fourth planet in the Sol System, which in Spore can be found as an easter egg.

Surface features

Mars is a temperate rocky planet with mostly plain terrain, except for geological formations like Olympus Mons, Valles Marineris and the Tharsis plateau. If a player looks closely in fact, many of the planet's features will be seen, except for the polar ice caps due to the fact that terrain in Spore is mostly one colour. Although it has no surface water, using planet-sculpting tools reveals water underground.

The planet is also tilted 90 degrees compared to its real-life counterpart, as Valles Marineris is at the planet's south pole, while in reality it is closer to the equator, and the south pole itself is at the equator.

Gallery

Valles Marineris and surrounding features

Tharsis plateau and surrounding features

Hellas Planitia and surrounding features

North pole

Olympus Mons

Tharsis Bulge

Mars at different T-scores

T0 (default)

T3 (without using the Staff of Life)

Trivia

• In reality, Mars has two satellites: Phobos and Deimos. They are not depicted in the game since they are neither spherical nor comparable in size to the Moon, Ganymede or Titan.
• When terraformed to T3, Mars is covered in red grass, much like H. G. Wells's fictional depiction in his novel The War of the Worlds.
• Due to compression artifacts in the heightmap used for Mars, some features appear striped. This is easy to see on Olympus Mons.