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Spectral analysis reveals Mercury's mineral makeup.
Different minerals appear in a rainbow of colors in this image of Mercury from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft.
The ingredients required to make a rainbow are sunlight and raindrops. Currently, there is no other planet known to have liquid water on its surface or in sufficient quantities in the atmosphere to make rain. The ingredients required to make a rainbow are sunlight and raindrops.
Pluto has a thin atmosphere of nitrogen, methane and carbon monoxide. The atmosphere has a blue tint and distinct layers of haze.
HERE'S THE RAINBOW-COLOURED PLUTO
Nasa in a statement revealed that while Pluto is not so colourful in reality, the image was processed by scientists to highlight the many subtle colour differences between the planet's distinct regions.
Alt text: Pluto is shown in a rainbow of colors that distinguish the different regions on the planet. The left side of the planet is mostly blue-green with purple swirls, while the right side ranges from a vibrant yellow-green at the top to a reddish orange toward the bottom.
See those reddish areas around Jupiter's equator and poles? They look that way in the “rainbow” photo because of atmospheric particles—a kind of hydrocarbon smog—absorbing ultraviolet light. The blueness in between is caused by the ultraviolet light being reflected off Jupiter.
Mars is a rust-orange color. (We know, it's called the Red Planet—what can we say? It's orange.) Jupiter is a light tan color and Saturn is a yellow-ish tan color.
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Answer. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) downgraded the status of Pluto to that of a dwarf planet because it did not meet the three criteria the IAU uses to define a full-sized planet. Essentially Pluto meets all the criteria except one—it “has not cleared its neighboring region of other objects.”
Named GJ 504b, the planet is made of pink gas. It's similar to Jupiter, a giant gas planet in our own solar system. But GJ 504b is four times more massive. At 460°F, it's the temperature of a hot oven, and it's the planet's intense heat that causes it to glow.
The planet is located 370 trillion miles from Earth - or 63 light-years.
Mercury is slate gray while Venus is pearly white, Earth a vibrant blue, and Mars a dusky red. Even the gas giants are different, Neptune and Uranus an opaque blue, while Jupiter and Saturn are mostly beige with brilliant red-brown belts.
Pluto, the dwarf planet, has a wide range of colors on its surface. The majority of the planet is off-white and blue, though there is a large red spot along with streaks of yellow and orange. Space probe images of Pluto's red spot indicate that it is heart-shaped.
The outer atmosphere of Jupiter is mostly hydrogen and helium, with some water droplets, ice crystals, and ammonia crystals. When these elements form clouds, they create shades of white, orange, brown, and red, the colors of Jupiter.
Darkest Planet Found: Coal-Black, It Reflects Almost No Light. The newfound gas-giant planet TrES-2b is black with a slight red glow, experts estimate.
Uranus holds the record for the coldest temperature ever measured in the Solar System: a very chilly -224℃. The temperature on Neptune is still very cold, of course – usually around -214℃ – but Uranus beats that.
No other planet in our solar system has rings as splendid as Saturn's. They are so expansive and bright that they were discovered as soon as humans began pointing telescopes at the night sky. Galileo Galilei was the first person known to view the heavens through a telescope.
NASA is on a mission to explore a Greek-named asteroid called 16 Psyche that contains a double-edged sword. Made completely of metal, it boasts enough gold to either make every person on Earth a billionaire—or to collapse the gold market and destabilize the entire global financial world.
To be precise, Uranus and Neptune both exhibit a range of colors from deep blue to pale green, depending on lighting and observation conditions. The reason for this can be understood by looking at their structure. The atmospheres of these planets contain mostly hydrocarbons, the main of which is methane.
So, Mars is red because it has a layer of rusty dust covering its entire surface! Mars has some of the largest dust storms in the galaxy, in which the red dust gets whipped into the light atmosphere surrounding the planet. This is why Mars also appears to have a red sky.
It depicts Sirius, the brightest star visible from Earth. Every night the star puts on a light show when the same turbulence that causes it to twinkle refracts its light waves to shine in different shades. Its multicolored nature has earned Sirius the nickname "Rainbow Star."
Jupiter is of orange-yellow color but reflects mainly blue rays of the spectrum.
The opposition effect, a brightness surge that is visible on Saturn's rings when the sun is directly behind the spacecraft, is captured here as a colorful halo of light moving across Saturn's sunlit rings.