Why Mars Red

Why is Mars red or matter afact why do we need to know about mars. Mars is red because in the acticle www.spaceanswers.com states that “iron rusting rocks and soil on the surface of mars contained a dust composed mostly of iron and small amounts of other elements such as chlorine and sulfur. The rocks and soil were eroded by wind and the dust was blown across the surface by ancient volcanoes.” Mars is really weird because the iron oxide forms a rust dust that floats in the atmosphere and sits as a duty eating across much of land land landscape. Iron rusting is mostly why mars is red but there is some other things why mars is red. In the article http://www.spaceanswers.com/ it staes that “the iron within the dust reacted with oxygen, producing a red rust colour, while the sky appears red as storms carried the dust into the atmosphere. This dusty surface, which is between a few millimetres and two metres deep, sits above hardened lava composed mostly of
Then when they added powdered magnetite, they were surprised to see the sand turn redder.” But if Mars is a cold, dry world, how can it be rusty? Astronomers used to think that Mars was once a warmer, wetter world. It’s cold and dry now, but Mars used to have large portions on its surface, and that water acted on the surface of Mars for a long period of time. Mars is a really wierd red it is like kinda orange but kinda red so in the middle and I like the color. In the article it states “that The old theory is that the oxidization process began early in Mars' life cycle, when warm water flowed on the planet—water that may have carved out the long, now-barren channels that snake through portions of the planet.” Mars is red because iron rusting is what mars looks like a red substances that’s what makes it