Why Astronomical Images do not show a planet's true color

Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free. The first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription and a 30-day free trial. Whether you grew up with a poster of the solar system on your bedroom wall or not, you've probably got a specific idea of what the planets look like. From brilliantly blue Neptune to the "red planet" Mars. But if you managed to actually visit these worlds, you'd find reality... a little beige. Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Alex Hackman, Ash, Benjamin Carleski, Bryan Cloer, charles george, Chris Mackey, Chris Peters, Christoph Schwanke, Christopher R Boucher, DrakoEsper, Eric Jensen, Friso, Garrett Galloway, Harrison Mills, J. Copen, Jaap Westera, Jason A Saslow, Jeffrey Mckishen, Jeremy Mattern, Kenny Wilson, Kevin Bealer, Kevin Knupp, Lyndsay Brown, Matt Curls, Michelle Dove, Piya Shedden, Rizwan Kassim, Sam Lutfi ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow #SciShow #science #education #learning #complexly ---------- Sources: https://www.planetary.org/articles/why-the-true-colors-of-the-planets-arent-what-you-think https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/527/4/11521/7511973?login=false https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1030165 https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/FalseColor https://esahubble.org/images/opo9818a/ https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/30-years-ago-voyager-2s-historic-neptune-flyby/ https://science.nasa.gov/resource/our-solar-system-2/ https://insider.si.edu/2013/11/mapping-venus-with-radar/ https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA23791 https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA10124 https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/rich-color-variations-of-pluto/ https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA02308 https://www.planetary.org/space-images/reconstruction-of-ios-true-color https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasas-juno-mission-reveals-jupiters-complex-colors/ https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA02309 https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA19857 https://science.nasa.gov/resource/true-colors-of-pluto/ https://esahubble.org/images/opo0322a/ https://esahubble.org/images/opo9927a/ https://esahubble.org/images/opo9828c/ https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2007/02/True-colour_image_of_Mars_seen_by_OSIRIS https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/mars/marsglobe1.jpg https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/1999/07/778-Image.html https://science.nasa.gov/sun/ https://www.bbcmaestro.com/blog/what-is-contrast-in-photography https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/photography/discover/photo-saturation.html https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/JA086iA10p08683 https://www.britannica.com/science/photoreception/Structure-and-function-of-photoreceptors https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00200847 https://science.nasa.gov/resource/newly-processed-views-of-venus-from-mariner-10/ https://webb.nasa.gov/content/about/faqs/facts.html https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/cassini-mission-continues/ https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/1998/28/698-Image.html?news=true https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/PHYSIOLOGICALLY-BASED-COLOUR-MATCHING-FUNCTIONS-Stockman-Sharpe/79c8f3b2fdfb6b3ccc9a266d60b8a85c62a91365 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1279132/?page=5 https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article-abstract/64/1/33/413426/Infrared-radiation-and-planetary?redirectedFrom=fulltext https://www.space.com/18551-venera-13.html Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Solar_system.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Neptune_Full.jpg https://tinyurl.com/mr65t664 https://tinyurl.com/45mtk43c https://tinyurl.com/ynr2trpk https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA09113 https://science.nasa.gov/resource/true-colors-of-pluto/ https://tinyurl.com/3h89dn2v https://tinyurl.com/vhc5zccz https://tinyurl.com/rcsze8tt https://tinyurl.com/5n73pzrd https://tinyurl.com/47tx8nz2 https://tinyurl.com/3xvdk7b4 https://tinyurl.com/mryf32er https://tinyurl.com/mws6d72x https://tinyurl.com/yub7xnp3 https://tinyurl.com/7yct72kp https://tinyurl.com/2s67rbwb https://tinyurl.com/y77sk29h https://tinyurl.com/35tcdp22 https://tinyurl.com/2s3ezryj https://tinyurl.com/m3zhnab7 https://tinyurl.com/nkxuy3tw https://tinyurl.com/232s8kp5 https://tinyurl.com/mv3z8r9u https://tinyurl.com/4enpzru9 https://tinyurl.com/3tnv5mwj https://tinyurl.com/3jv2c96h https://tinyurl.com/3yedjdtb https://tinyurl.com/859zd5hk https://tinyurl.com/4act3a7h https://tinyurl.com/3vdju2fk https://tinyurl.com/2a647dse