WHY ARE PLANETS DIFFERENT COLORS?

MERCURY

• A dark gray, rocky surface which is covered with a thick layer of dust. The surface is thought to be made up of igneous silicate rocks and dust.

VENUS

• a thick carbon dioxide atmosphere and sulphuric acid clouds which give it a light yellowish appearance.

MARS

• with a fine dust which contains iron oxide (rust). This gives Mars its orange color.

JUPITER

• a giant gas planet with an outer atmosphere that is mostly hydrogen and helium with small amounts of water droplets, ice crystals, ammonia crystals, and other elements. Clouds of these elements create shades of white, orange, brown and red.

SATURN

• giant gas planet with an outer atmosphere that is mostly hydrogen and helium. Its atmosphere has traces of ammonia, phosphine, water vapor, and hydrocarbons giving it a yellowish-brown color.

URANUS

• a gas planet which has a lot of methane gas mixed in with its mainly hydrogen and helium atmosphere. This methane gas gives Uranus a greenish blue color

NEPTUNE

• Neptune also has some methane gas in its mainly hydrogen and helium atmosphere, giving it a bluish color.

BIBLIOGRAGHY

• Ask an Astronomer.” Cool Cosmos, coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/ask/203-Why-do-the-planets-have-different-color....