why is mars called a cold planet?

Answer 1

It is uncommon for Mars to get hotter than 32 degrees F. In the winters it's easily 200 below.

Mars is red because of the red clay on the surface of Mars that is created as a result of the high amounts of sulfur in Mars' atmosphere. The sulfur is rained down and the result is a red planet. Most people relate red to hot, but in this case it's red and it's cold.

Answer 2

Actually Mars does have an atmosphere. It's just much thinner then the Earths. Mars has seasons similar to the Earths but each season lasts twice as long compared to the Earths. It isn't freezing the whole time. During a Martian summer during the day and close to Mars's equator it can be warm.

Its Venus that is the hot planet not Mercury. With reference to Mercury, the side that faces the Sun *is* baked but the other half of the planet is very cold.

OK?

Answer 3

By far, it is the thin Mars atmosphere more than the planet's distance from the sun that allows night time temperatures to dip into the minus triple digits. If Mars had a thick
atmosphere like the Earth's, the daily temperatures swings would be greatly reduced.

Answer 4

Mercury is the hot planet. And Mars is the cold planet. Because it's made of frozen mars bars.

Answer 5

Mars is called the red planet!
Who told you it's called the cold planet?

Answer 6

Mars has experienced 40 major ice ages over the past five million years, when vast areas of its porous soil froze and thawed again, according to computer simulations released on Wednesday.
The changes mainly result from Mars' angle of rotation, which is so extreme that the Red Planet experiences seasons. These seasons last far longer than Earth's because of the greater distance from the Sun.

Sub-surface ice exists in stable form today in both northern and southern hemispheres of Mars poleward of around 60 degrees latitude.

Historically, though, the extent of the ice has shifted again and again, eastwards and westwards and northwards and southwards, thanks to shifts in exposure to sunlight caused by Mars' rotational tilt, says University of Hawaii astrobiologist Nobert Schorghofer.

As parts of the surface are warmed by the Sun, they surrender moisture to the Martian atmosphere. Eventually, as the surface cools, the evaporation condenses once more into the loose soil, known as regolith.

"Today, this gives rise to pore ice at mid-latitudes and a three-layered depth distribution in the high latitudes of, from top to bottom, a dry layer, pore ice, and a massive ice sheet," says Schorghofer's paper, published by the British journal Nature.

In March, an investigation published in the U.S. journal Science found that there is another sub-surface ice at the Martian south pole alone to cover the entire planet to a depth of 11 meters (35.75 feet).

Answer 7

Mars is a cold planet because it's sooo far away from the suns rays. Its the one before Pluto. Mercury, being the planet closest to the sun, is the hottest planet. Make sense?

Answer 8

Generally cold planets have no atmosphere.
Mars does not
venus does.

Answer 9

It has no longer plate tectonics, so no hot molten inner core...this is due to the fact that mars is so far from the sun (amongst other reasons).

Answer 10

My guess is because it is so far from any heat source (the SUN) that it retains or gives off NEGATIVE heat?? No heat = cold?? Is this a trick question?? Cold indicates no warmth...