red planet
Fourth from sun
Red planet is Mars, the fourth planet from the sun, named for its distinctive reddish appearance caused by iron oxide on its surface.
The term appears in both scientific and popular contexts: NASA's latest mission to the red planet, science fiction stories set on the red planet.
- MarsRed planet, war deity
- iron oxideFe plus oxygen
- rustIron oxide coating
- ironElement twenty-six
- dustFine settled particles
desert · Olympus · rover · NASA · space exploration · Curiosity · crimson · barren · crater · alien · War of the Worlds · Matt Damon · total recall · Bowie · spacecraft · orbit · colony · Elon
- MarsMars surface, Martian soil, Martian atmosphere, Olympus Mons, polar caps
- Mars associationswar god, Aries, aggression, passion, courage
- planetsEarth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Venus
- spacespace, sun, moon, stars, star
- space fictionscience fiction, spaceship, sci-fi, astronaut, space adventure
- Mars colonizationterraforming, habitat, dome, outpost, rover
red planetpale blue dot
Earth seen from space
blue marble · Earth · living world · Goldilocks planet · water world
red planetgas giants
Planets of hydrogen, helium
Neptune · Uranus · Jupiter · outer planets · ice giants
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