Why is Mars known as "The Red Planet"?

Science & Mathematics by Anonymous 2018-07-05 05:03:22

Social Science

16 answers

Anonymous

The colour of the soil and rocks, full of oxides, lots of red.
Anonymous

Because of its predominantly reddish soil Even to the naked eye it looks red at night
Anonymous

Look t it tonight in the sky. It will be up around midnight in your area.
Anonymous

Because it has a red hue when we look at it.
Anonymous

Because it's difficult to judge the colour of a small light source, so although it's more orange than red, many people perceive it as red.
Anonymous

It is red.
Anonymous

Because of the massive amount of Iron (III) Oxide (Rust) in its top soil, it reflects red light back into space. Ergo it has a red tinge even to the feeble human eye on Earth.
Anonymous

'Cos it's red. Why else?
Anonymous

Because most of us humans are not color blind and it looks reddish to us
Anonymous

Because it looks kinda red.
Anonymous

Two reasons: Mars appears red to the naked eye and during ancient times the time between March and November was the traditional time for warfare when Mars was high in the sky.
Anonymous

When something is red you are not going to call it blue you plonker.
Anonymous

Because it looks red from Earth. It is actually reddish from all the iron it has on the surface.
Anonymous

Nobody knows
Anonymous

It has a whole bunch of iron oxide on its surface.
Anonymous

Why is the sky called blue?