Tharsis in Popular Culture
- In Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy, two major cities called Cairo and Nicosia are located in this region, as well as many mentions of Noctis Labyrinthus and the surrounding areas.
- In the game Killzone 2 Tharsis is a mining region on the planet Helghan.
- Tharsis appears in the Japanese manga and anime Voices of a Distant Star, where the first encounter between mankind and an alien race referred to as Tarsians took place.
- In the anime Cowboy Bebop, Vicious is stationed with the Red Dragon Syndicate in the region.
- The Tharsis plateau is the setting of the Warhammer 40,000 novel Mechanicum by Graham McNeill.
- In Sealab 2021 episode "Der Dieb", Captain Murphy makes references to the Tharsian region on Mars: "Then as of this moment, I am hereby married to Adrienne Barbeau, queen of Mars from Olympus Mons to Tharsis"
- The video game Red Faction: Guerrilla takes place entirely in the Tharsis region. Also in the game, it is proposed that the infamous Ultor Corporation's mining complex was also in Tharsis.
- In the novel Spin by Robert Charles Wilson, the return trip to Earth is launched from Tharsis after 100,000 years since Martian colonization, but before Mars is enveloped by the spin.
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