Why is the planet "MARS" called the red planet?
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It is the red planet because it is red.  I don't know if the planets were given the names first or the Gods, but either way Mars was the God of war, which I am sure is why that God is associated with that planet.
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From the Roman God of War, named (funnily enough!) Mars.\nBecause the planet looks red, it was assumed it had to be associated with war.
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Unfortunately, I think it's pretty impossible to say exactly who first named the planet 'Earth'. Actually, I really doubt one person really named it intentionally; rather it developed over time as part of the English language. Earth is Old English and German in origin, related to the Old Saxon 'ertha', the Dutch 'aerde', and the German 'erda'. Terra is a French and Latin word, and so isn't part of the 'Earth' etymology. I'm not really an expert on words and word origins, but it seems likely that people used Earth to mean 'land' and then it was the natural thing to refer to all the land and the planet. I tried to look up more specific details about the specific usage of the word over time, but even the Oxford English Dictionary (online) admits: \n\n"Men's notions of the shape and position of the earth have so greatly changed since Old Teutonic times, while the language of the older notions has long outlived them, that it is very difficult to arrange the senses and applications of the word in any historical order." \n\nSo, as with the names of the other planets that have been known throughout human history (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn), it's difficult to say who first thought of the planet as Earth. The names were part of culture even before we really understood the significance of what planets are and where they are in space.
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Earth is (beside Sedna) the only planet in the solar system, whose name is not derived from the Greek or Roman mythology, the origin of the now used form of naming comes from the Anglo-Saxon word Erda (Erdaz), which means ground, soil, and Earth, the word changed to Eorthe or Erthe in Old English and to Erde in German.
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recently probe have been sent to mars to searhc for any signs of organisms or water supplys to suplly evidence that there was life once on mars. So far there have ben pictures sent back showing some sedimentry rocks proving that there was once water on mars, one of the probes landed in a huge crater which was believed to be a lake, since there are signs of water it mean that there must have been  life on mars. Mars wasnt a completly blue planet but there was some water on it, I believe that it was mostly made up of lakes and seas instead of oceans. Btw, the guy who asked to have the best answer, dont do that, you shouldnt demand of of people like that, its the person whos question you answered who decides on who gave him the best answer.
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LIFE ON MARS.\n\nIn 1877, Giovanni Schiaparelli produced the first "modern" map of Mars, on which he showed a system of what he called canali. Although canali in Italian means "channel", without the implication of being an artificial feature, the word was commonly translated into English as "canal".\n\n\nIn 1910, Percival Lowell captured the imagination of the public with his book Mars As the Abode of Life. Based on his extensive visual observations (and as we know today, an active imagination) Lowell painted a compelling portrait of a dying planet, whose inhabitants had constructed a vast irrigation system to distribute water from the polar regions to the population centers nearer the equator.\n\nDespite its appeal to the public, the astronomical community never gave serious credence to the details of Lowell's theory. The failure of many observers to confirm the existence of the canals eventually led scientists to suspect that their colleagues had been fooled into seeing the canals, by the difficulty in resolving fine detail from Earth and their own desire to believe. (This map, constructed from Viking orbiter images in the same format as Schiaparelli's -- south is up -- shows no sign of the canals, though a few features may have been interpreted as such.)\n\n\nBut the Lowell-inspired idea of an Earthlike Mars proved more durable. At the dawn of the space age, Mars was considered to have an atmosphere about a tenth the density of Earth's, water ice polar caps that waxed and waned with the seasons, and an annual "wave of darkening" that was often interpreted as growing plant life.\n\nIn the 1960s, observations from Earth and flyby spacecraft signalled the beginning of the end for Lowell's Mars. The Mariner 4, 6, and 7 missions returned images of a moonlike, heavily-cratered surface. The atmosphere was found to be almost pure carbon dioxide (CO2), only a hundredth the density of Earth's, and the polar caps proved to be almost entirely frozen CO2. The first global views of Mars, returned by the Mariner 9 orbiter in 1972, revealed that the planet was far more complex than the earlier flyby missions had shown, with huge volcanoes, an enormous canyon system, and evidence of running water at some point in the past. But the wave of darkening was shown to be the result of seasonal redistribution of windblown dust on the surface, the atmosphere's composition and density were confirmed, and most of the evidence for an Earthlike Mars was swept away.\n\nBut despite all these blows, the possibility of organisms on the surface could not yet be ruled out. For this reason, in 1976 the Viking landers carried a sophisticated instrument to look for possible life forms on the martian surface.\n\n\nTHE VIKING BIOLOGY EXPERIMENT.\n\nThe Viking biology experiment weighed 15.5 kg (34 lbs) and consisted of three subsystems: the Pyrolytic Release experiment (PR), the Labeled Release experiment (LR), and the Gas Exchange experiment (GEX).\n\nIn addition, independent of the biology experiments, Viking carried a Gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometer (GCMS) that could measure the composition and abundance of organic compounds in the martian soil. (It should be noted that organic is a chemical term simply meaning "carbon-containing", and does not require the presence of life, although all life on Earth does contain carbon.)\n\n\nLABELED RELEASE.\n\nThe LR experiment moistened a 0.5-cc sample of soil with 1 cc of a nutrient consisting of distilled water and organic compounds. The organic compounds had been labeled with radioactive carbon-14. After moistening, the sample would be allowed to incubate for at least 10 days, and any microorganisms would hopefully consume the nutrient and give off gases containing the carbon-14, which would then be detected. (Terrestrial organisms would give off CO2, carbon monoxide (CO), or methane (CH4).)\n\n\nGAS EXCHANGE.\n\nThe GEX experiment partially su
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The name retained for the planet is that of the Roman god Pluto, and it is also intended to evoke the initials of the astronomer Percival Lowell, who predicted that a planet would be found beyond Neptune. The name was first suggested by Venetia Burney, at the time an eleven-year-old girl from Oxford, England. Over the breakfast table, one morning her grandfather, who worked at Oxford University's Bodleian Library, was reading about the discovery of the new planet in the Times newspaper. He asked his granddaughter what she thought would be good name for it. Venetia thought that as it was so cold and so distant it should be named after the Roman God of the underworld. Professor Herbert Hall Turner cabled his colleagues in America with this suggestion, and after favourable consideration which was almost unanimous, the name Pluto was officially adopted and an announcement made by Slipher on May 1, 1930
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The newly discovered planet that rotates our sun is called 2003 UB313, but this question is causing a stir because since theres so many objects that are the size of pluto that rotate our sun scientists are trying to define what the term "planet" exactly means.\nfor more information look at the website below from "NASA"
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The first four\nMercury, Venus, Earth & Mars\nand the last one\nPluto\n\nAll other planets are considered "gas planets"
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"Earth" is the name the inhabitants of the third Solar planet call their world. This word is an ancient one, and is in English. All the logical paths that lead to a planet's name require the conclusion that no other planet could have this exact name.\n\n;-D Of course miracles happen every day! If some aliens like the name "Earth" then I won't stop them from calling their planet 'Earth!"
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Not Mars and DEFINITELY not Venus. Mars is too cold and has almost no oxygen. Venus it WAY WAY too hot, hot enough to melt lead, even hotter than Mercury due to a runaway greenhouse effect, and also has almost no oxygen. There is no planet that we know of (yet) that can support plant or animal life like we have on Earth. Maybe one will be discovered in another star system some time in the future, but there is no such planet in our own solar system, other than Earth.
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There's really only one 'icy planet', and that's Pluto.  Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are all terrestrial planets, while Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are all jovian.  That leaves Pluto, and maybe that new one if they decide to call it a planet.
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Coruscant (pronounced /'kʊ.ɹə.sɑnt/) Is an ecumenopolis, it was renamed Imperial Center during the reign of the Galactic Empire and Yuuzhan'tar during the Yuuzhan Vong Invasion. The adjective form of the planet name is Coruscanti.\n\nlets get it right bearded one....and jedi use the mind control to get other people to pick it up for them...
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Its both ways actually-an asteroid and a planet.pluto circles the sun.this is the reason why its called a planet.but it also cuts across the eliptical orbit (if you know what i mean)while the others dont.There was a big debate on what pluto really was.anyway right now i think pluto is considered an asteroid and not a planet.
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Why the Red Sea is so called is a bit of a mystery. Some say it is due to the light of the setting sun reflecting off the red mountains along its shore and on to the surface of the water. Others say it should have been called the "Reed Sea" because of the abundant reed beds near Suez before they built the canal. Some claim the name refers to the "red tide" of a plankton bloom ­ Trichodesmium erythraeum ­ that turns the water brown when it dies. The Ancient Egyptians knew the Red Sea as the Wadge Wir ­ the Great Green ­ not very red at all!
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The planet Mercury was named after a roman "god", he was the messenger of the gods. He's the one with wings on his feet and a helmet with wings. The element mercury was named after this planet. Mercury was known for speed and mobility, which is probably why the planet (which is the fastest around the sun) and the element (which has mobility compared to other elements) are named after him.
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Actually it's more of a pink than red.  And it's not always red.\n\nThe red comes from all the dust suspended in the atmosphere, which comes from the severe dusts storms that are common on Mars.  The Martian "soil" is red, so when a lot of that "soil" or dust is in the air, that makes the sky look pink.  The soil is red because there's a lot of a rust-like compound in it.\n\nIf all the dust settles out of the sky, then the sky would be a pale blue color.  Blue for the same reason Earth's sky is blue.  Pale because the Martian atmosphere is very very thin.