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:

    “The dancers crowded about him
    And many a sweet thing said,
    And a young man brought him red wine
    And a young girl white bread.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Thus will the fondest dream of Phallic science be realized: a pristine new planet populated entirely by little boy clones of great scientific entrepeneurs ... free to smash atoms, accelerate particles, or, if they are so moved, build pyramids—without any social relevance or human responsibility at all.”
    —Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)