The color red and the planet Mars go together like Earth and its oceans or Saturn and its rings. However, our understanding of how the Red Planet got its signature hue might be wrong. A new ...

With its iconic rusty hue, Mars has long been called the red planet. Now, scientists may have discovered the potential source of that distinctive coloring, overturning a popular theory in the process.

Mars' distinctive red color comes from the mineral ... temperature than other minerals that make up the aptly-named red planet’s surface, like hematite, which had previously been considered ...

"Mars is still the Red Planet. It’s just that our understanding of why Mars is red has been transformed." Mars is widely known for its iconic rusty red color — many people even refer to it as ...

Mars is easily identifiable in the night sky by its prominent red hue. Thanks to the fleet of spacecraft that have studied the planet over the last decades, we know that this red color is due to ...

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The fourth planet from the Sun is famously a rusty red—but scientists now believe we’ve been wrong about how it got its distinct hue. The red coloration comes from iron minerals in Mars ...

We’ve always known Mars as the Red Planet — but it turns out, we may have had the reason why wrong. If so, it could revise much of what we know about the history of our smaller neighbor planet.

Martian dust is mostly rust! Mars’s famed colour has captivated humankind for centuries, earning its nickname of the ‘Red Planet’. Romans named Mars for their god of war because its colour ...