The eight planets of the Solar System, each through the images and maps that show it, with palettes sampled from those views.
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Earth
Planet · Sun
Explore Earth through selected images and models. Compare palettes inspired by its oceans, land, clouds and ice, then bring those colours into a design of your own.
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Jupiter
Planet · Sun
Jupiter’s belts and zones are some of the richest colours in the Solar System. Compare Hubble’s portrait, Cassini’s true-colour globe and the global map on a 3D sphere.
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Mars
Planet · Sun
Explore Mars through orbital views and surface scenes. Compare colours sampled from selected images with creative palettes inspired by the planet’s landscapes.
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Mercury
Planet · Sun
Mercury’s colours are subtle: grey-brown rock with bright crater rays. See how the same MESSENGER images give different colours depending on how they are stretched.
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Neptune
Planet · Sun
Neptune’s deep blue, and why the famous Voyager 2 picture is bluer than the planet really looks.
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Saturn
Planet · Sun
Saturn’s soft golds and greys and its bright icy rings, from Hubble’s visible-light portrait and Webb’s infrared view.
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Uranus
Planet · Sun
A pale blue-green world: compare Voyager 2’s true-colour view with Webb’s infrared image of Uranus and its rings.
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Venus
Planet · Sun
Venus hides under pale clouds. Compare a reprocessed Mariner 10 view of its cloud tops with Magellan’s radar map of the surface beneath.
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Colours belong to the images and models they were sampled from, not permanently to an object. Positions in the colour atlas are colours, not places in space.