Entity

Mars

A topic on our watch list — we track its coverage across 8 coverage verticals, including Federal Alignment, World Wires and Government.

As of 20 Oct 2026Last evidence 20 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • ‘Once-in-a-lifetime chance’: Japan launches historic mission to collect rocks from Mars’s moon Phobos

    Reported claim · first reported 18 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

All 1 event and claims involving Mars

What changed

  • Attention Fading: 20 mentions on 19 Oct 2026, against 24 on 28 Sept 2026 (-17%).
  • State Last recorded change: wire tier went from flagged to watch on 20 Oct 2026 (4 changes recorded since 9 Oct 2026).
  • Claims No claim first reported since 19 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

511 documents · 164 publishers · 4% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 20 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.035: about 97% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 1 receipt withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside Mars

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

NASAEarthSpaceXAIArtemisChinaUnited States
  • NASA · 250 shared documents
  • Earth · 206 shared documents
  • SpaceX · 105 shared documents
  • AI · 91 shared documents
  • Artemis · 75 shared documents
  • Martian · 66 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • China · 65 shared documents
  • International Space Station · 62 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • United States · 60 shared documents
  • Space Exploration · 58 shared documents · no page of its own yet

Story momentum

Fading

The word compares 20 mentions on 19 Oct 2026 with 24 on 28 Sept 2026 (-17%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +233% from 5 Sept 2026 to 19 Oct 2026, between 6 and 27 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Mars, day by day.

Market price, cited

Not priced yet

No open prediction market prices a question materially about Mars yet. Ask about Mars

No market price on file: no prediction market prices a question about this name yet

Coverage volume and market price are separate measures.

For developers

This page is also an object: GET https://sigb.ai/api/v1/node/e/cbbf83b063c7d9ed0c6ccbbf returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name mars.

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  "name": "mars",
  "label": "Mars",
  "asOf": "2026-10-20",
  "mentions": 56,
  "outlets": 33,
  "domains": 8,
  "node": {
    "id": "sb:e/cbbf83b063c7d9ed0c6ccbbf",
    "schema": "sb.node.v1",
    "rest": "https://sigb.ai/api/v1/node/e/cbbf83b063c7d9ed0c6ccbbf",
    "knowledgeCutoff": "2026-10-20T14:56:33.153015+00:00",
    "snapshot": "this deploy's committed data files (commit not exposed in this runtime)"
  },
  "coverageTrend": "fading",
  "history": {
    "since": "2026-10-09T13:18:22.628694+00:00",
    "changes": 4
  },
  "whereFrom": {
    "level": "counts",
    "label": "56 mentions across 8 domains",
    "children": [
      {
        "level": "reports",
        "label": "6 reports drawn on this page, each with its link",
        "children": {
          "count": 6,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "level": "domains",
        "label": "8 coverage domains",
        "children": {
          "count": 8,
          "unfold": "expand=+1"
        }
      },
      {
        "level": "not shown",
        "label": "The other 50 mentions",
        "edge": "counted daily from tracked coverage; single mentions are not listed one by one"
      }
    ]
  }
}

The figures on this page, as data. The tool returns the full entity record.

Events involving Mars

Most-reported first, then newest. Registered events come from the event record; reported events are groups of claims about one occurrence. Claims are grouped when they were first reported within 2 days of each other and either name at least 2 of the same people, places or things besides this one, or share at least 25% of their wording. Each claim keeps its own record.

  • ‘Once-in-a-lifetime chance’: Japan launches historic mission to collect rocks from Mars’s moon Phobos

    Reported claim · first reported 18 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

    corroborated

Walk the record from Mars

Open where it comes from, follow a claim or a related name, and use the trail to come back. Every step says what it is, how it stands and when. Machines read the same record.

Mars

Entity.

Evidence
511 documents · 164 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 1 Apr 2026, last seen 20 Oct 2026
Measured
4% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
20 Oct 2026
11 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (1)

  • Corroborated: Reported by three or more sources that did not copy each other.

Situations it is named in (0)

none on file at this cutoff

For machines: this record as JSON

Watch this

What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names Mars, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article.

What it connects to

Related records.

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Recorded history

  • 20 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: flagged to watch

    Previous state held since 14 Oct 2026

  • 20 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: rising to insufficient_history

    Previous state held since 14 Oct 2026

  • 14 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: watch to flagged

    Previous state held since 1 Oct 2026

  • 14 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: insufficient_history to rising

    Previous state held since 1 Oct 2026

4 changes recorded since 9 Oct 2026, newest first.

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Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 20 Oct 2026.