Mars is called “the Red Planet”. It is the planet that looks most red through a telescope, or in images from the robots that are photographing it from orbit or on the ground there. Other planets have different colours. read more
Mars is called “the Red Planet”. It is the planet that looks most red through a telescope, or in images from the robots that are photographing it from orbit or on the ground there. Other planets have different colours. Jupiter is mainly an orange-brown colour. Others are not very red. read more
Nicknames for the eight planets in the solar system are Swift Planet for Mercury, Morning Star and Evening Star for Venus, Blue Planet for Earth, Red Planet for Mars, Giant Planet for Jupiter, Ringed Planet for Saturn, Ice Giant for Uranus and Big Blue Planet for Neptune. read more
The four large outer worlds — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune — are known as the “Jovian planets” (meaning “Jupiter-like”) because they are all huge compared to the terrestrial planets, and because they are gaseous in nature rather than having rocky surfaces (though some or all of them may have solid cores, astronomers say). read more