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a small reddish planet that is the 4th from the sun and is periodically visible to the naked eye; minerals rich in iron cover its surface and are responsible for its characteristic color
Mars has two satellites
How To Use Red Planet In A Sentence
- More recently, Mars has been featured on film as a volatile future colony in Total Recall and a bizarrely inhabitable terrain in Red Planet.
- Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity will spend another six months crawling over the surface of the red planet and sending data back to Earth.
- Floating and drifting by its own initial inertia, the lifeless spacecraft or what it seemed to be, grew smaller and smaller as it merged with the background of different colored planets.
- Recent images returned from Phoenix are already revealing clues about subsurface ice on the red planet.
- Had the subsequently discovered planet Uranus displayed retrograde motion, the Newtonian theory would have been off the hook.
- In this edition of How Stuff Will Work, you will find out why Mars is the ideal candidate for colonization, and how we plan to terraform the red planet for human habitation.
- The attraction between the conjectured planet and Uranus was to account for the latter's departure from its initially predicted orbit.
- Mars is sometimes called the Red Planet because of its distinctive colour.
- This newly discovered planet orbits a star called Tau Gruis, which is about 100 light-years away.
- The name Vulcan was given to the undiscovered planet.
