What are the colors of all the planets?
This is a really good question! Most of the planets don't have bright colors, so often the pictures have been “enhanced” or shown in “false colors” using computers to bring out the details. So in some of the pictures the colors you see are not be real. Here are the planets' colors as I understand them. Mercury is bare rock, a light gray color, like the moon. Venus' clouds are yellowish-white. (There is a famous picture of Venus that looks dark blue and white — it is a “false color” picture that was actually taken in ultraviolet light to show the cloud patterns. I've also seen the same picture showing the clouds as light tan!) Earth is largely covered by water and there are lots of clouds, so it looks mostly blue and white. Mars really is red, a rusty orange-red color. Jupiter's clouds look yellowish white if you just look at it in the sky or through a telescope. True color pictures from Voyager show that some of the clouds look light brown and light orange. Many of the p
