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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Julia Musto

We might be wrong about the color of Mars, scientists say

Scientists might have been wrong about perhaps the most obvious thing about Mars: the red colour behind its nickname

Earthlings have known about the existence of Mars, the fourth planet from the sun it also orbits, since ancient times.

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