Red Planet

Red Planet is a nickname for the planet Mars, due to its surface color. It may also refer to:

  • Red Planet (novel) by Robert A. Heinlein
  • Red Planet (miniseries), a 1994 animated adaptation of the novel
  • Red Planet (film), an unrelated 2000 film starring Val Kilmer
  • Red Planet (game), a BattleTech game scenario
  • Red Planet Mars a 1952 film based on a 1932 play Red Planet

Famous quotes containing the words red and/or planet:

    “One encounters very capable fathers abashed by their piano-playing daughters. Three measures of Schumann make them red with embarrassment.”
    —Alfred Döblin (1878–1957)

    “Until they saw, over the mists
    of Venus, two fish creatures stop
    on spangled legs and crawl
    from the belly of the sea.
    And from the planet park
    they heard the new fruit drop.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)