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RED PLANET
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I. (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
Example:
Mars has two satellites
Synonyms:
Mars; Red Planet
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
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:
You will like the news—Mars will be beautifully supportive, and in addition, the Red Planet will be based in your work-a-day sector.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Using an imaging spectrometer on MRO, researchers detected signatures of hydrated minerals on slopes where mysterious streaks are seen on the Red Planet.
(NASA Confirms Evidence That Liquid Water Flows on Today's Mars, NASA)
Researchers have discovered on the Red Planet the largest fresh meteor-impact crater ever firmly documented with before-and-after images.
(NASA Mars weathercam helps find big new crater, NASA)
Dust storms also will present challenges for astronauts on the Red Planet.
(Study Predicts Next Global Dust Storm on Mars, NASA)
If these iron-rich minerals harbour traces of life on Earth, then they may hold clues to past microbial life on the red planet.
(Red Planet May Have Harbored Life in Past, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Volcanoes erupted beneath an ice sheet on Mars billions of years ago, far from any ice sheet on the Red Planet today.
(Clues about Volcanoes Under Ice on Ancient Mars, NASA)
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity completed its first Red Planet distance on March 24, 2015 - 42.195 kilometers - with a finish time of roughly 11 years and two months.
(Opportunity Mars Rover Passes Marathon Distance, NASA)
That might be a clue to how the Red Planet lost its lakes and rivers over billions of years, becoming the freezing desert it is today.
(Global Storms on Mars Launch Dust Towers Into the Sky, NASA)
Chemicals found in Martian rocks by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover suggest the Red Planet once had more oxygen in its atmosphere than it does now.
(NASA Rover Findings Point to a More Earth-like Martian Past, NASA)
This has been proposed for years as a mechanism for possible existence of transient liquid brines at higher latitudes on modern Mars, despite the Red Planet's cold and dry conditions.
(Mars Rover's Weather Data Bolster Case for Brine, NASA)
