What color is the planet Mars said to be?

Question

What color is the planet Mars said to be?

Answer 1

what kind of a question is this, it's red

Answer 2

Mars has long been known as the Red Planet.  Our probes there have shown this to be true.  Iron oxide (rust) on the surface causes the red color.

Answer 3

I say it looks red in my telescopes, binoculars, and in my naked eyes.  Up close it is sort of the same color as the desert areas around the Grand Canyon in Arizona, shades of red/brown/yellow/white as shown in the closeup pictures we have from the rovers.

Answer 4

from earth it looks like a whitish color

Answer 5

red

Answer 6

Generally Red.

The soil of mars is iron-oxide, giving us the reddish color.

When water flowed on mars it made channels from the water flow, eroding the surface. Iron rocks near the water would of worn away, the oxygen in the water would of combined creating iron oxide, or rust.

Picture of Mars:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:2005-...

C'mon Geoff, you know what we mean. haha.

Answer 7

The common color associated with MArs is red because of its iron rich soil, which is naturally red.

Answer 8

Read

Answer 9

Most of these answers are totally wrong, posted by people who have probably never actually _looked_ at the planet Mars!

Mars is typically a peachy orange colour, as seen in countless images of Mars taken from the Earth, from orbit around Mars, and from the surface of Mars, as shown in the sources.

Answer 10

This color--------- http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planeta...

Answer 11

Geoff G,  your boston.com link has the MOST AMAZING photos!!!  

Thanks for sharing that link.  I had no idea that there were clouds on Mars, nor that the sky right around the sun looks blue at sunset.  Absolutely beautiful!  

Thanks again for sharing.

Answer 12

Reddish-brown.

Answer 13

Mars is associated with the colour red. to be fairly accurate it is overwhelmingly reddish brown with some darker patches in the volcanic regions.

Answer 14

look at it and decide for yourself.

to me it's a pinkish orange colour in a telesscope.

Answer 15

Reddish.

Answer 16

From here red, standing on it brown.

Answer 17

Rust red.

Answer 18

It is called the Red planet, but it actually looks Orange/Peach in colour

Answer 19

Red.