Why do the planets have different colors?

Answer 1

Planets have the colors that they have because of what they are made of and how their surfaces or atmospheres reflect and absorb sunlight.

Mercury has 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 is entirely covered with a thick carbon dioxide atmosphere and sulphuric acid clouds which give it a light yellowish appearance.

Earth shows its blue oceans and white clouds as well as its green and brownish land.

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

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

Pluto (now classified as a dwarf planet) - there are no pictures of Pluto which give us a good view of its surface yet, because it is too far away. Pluto may be covered in ice.

Answer 2

Easy identification by nature.Each and every planet has its own character which is filled with different kinds of gas or other impurities.

Answer 3

It is because of Albedo of any planet.

****Albedo**-The fraction of incident electromagnetic radiation reflected by a surface, especially of a celestial body.
the ratio of the light reflected by a planet or satellite to that received by it.
which is due to fluids(gases & water) present in their bodies.

Answer 4

Planets have different colours due to the difference in composition of their atmosphere. Different substances have different emmission spectra, so different colours.

Answer 5

h2o presentage is more earth is bule, mars is orangered colour, due to the marshgases and iner5t gases diffration and dispersion of the gases the colour are like that

Answer 6

BECAUSE OF THEIR DISTANCE FROM THE SUN AND THE GASES PRESENT IN THE PLANETS.,WHICH UNDERGO REACTIONS AND LEADS TO THE DIFFERENT COLOURS OF HE PLANETS......

Answer 7

the colour of soil or phenomenons like diffraction,dispersion scattering may be the reasons