RED PLANET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Red Planet mean? 

• RED PLANET (noun)
  The noun RED PLANET has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: RED PLANET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RED PLANET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Mars; Red Planet

Context example:

Mars has two satellites

Instance hypernyms:

superior planet (any of the planets whose orbit lies outside the earth's orbit)

terrestrial planet (a planet having a compact rocky surface like the Earth's; the four innermost planets in the solar system)

Holonyms ("Red Planet" is a member of...):

solar system (the sun with the celestial bodies that revolve around it in its gravitational field)

 Context examples 

NASA scientists have found evidence that Mars’ crust is not as dense as previously thought, a clue that could help researchers better understand the Red Planet’s interior structure and evolution.

(New Gravity Map Suggests Mars Has a Porous Crust, NASA)

These results provide insight into the climate history of the Red Planet and suggest the surface conditions at this later time may also have been suitable for microbial life.

(Some Ancient Mars Lakes Came Long After Others, NASA)

At the beginning of Mars’ existence and up until 3.5 billion years ago, the red planet hosted a global magnetic field.

(Blue Aurorae in Mars’ Sky Visible to the Naked Eye, NASA)

The model suggests that as the ring formed, and the debris slowly moved away from the Red Planet and spread out, it began to clump and eventually formed a moon.

(Does Mars Have Rings? Not Right Now, But Maybe One Day, NASA)

According to models developed by researchers at Purdue University, the Red Planet was likely hit by an asteroid or other body about 4.3 billion years ago.

(Mars May Have Had Rings, and May Once Again, VOA News)

But where should the first people on the Red Planet land?

(NASA's Treasure Map for Water Ice on Mars, NASA)

It no longer rains on the Red Planet, and the water that remains is mostly in the form of ice.

(Heavy Rain May Have Once Fallen on Mars, VOA)

Laser-zapping of a globular, golf-ball-size object on Mars by NASA's Curiosity rover confirms that it is an iron-nickel meteorite fallen from the Red Planet's sky.

(Curiosity Mars Rover Checks Odd-looking Iron Meteorite, NASA)

The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft has been orbiting Mars for just over two years, studying the Red Planet's upper atmosphere, ionosphere and interactions with the sun and solar wind.

(NASA Orbiter Steers Clear of Mars Moon Phobos, NASA)

The research also has major implications for the search for life on Mars, because the red planet has ancient hot spring deposits of a similar age to the Dresser Formation in the Pilbara.

(First Life Ever on Land: 3.48 Billion Years Ago, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)