Hello, friends!
So as you know, Earth is “the Blue Planet” and Mars is “the Red Planet.” By my math, that leaves us with six other planets in our Solar System that don’t have color-related nicknames. Today, I’d like to try and fix that.
Jupiter was the toughest. He’s actually lots of different colors: red, grey, white, orange… and then the Juno mission recently showed us that Jupiter’s polar regions are blue! Of course Jupiter is most famous for being red in that one specific spot, but even the Great Red Spot changes colors from time to time, fading from red to pink to white before turning red again.
Anyway, those are my picks for the color-related nicknames for all the planets. Do you agree with my picks? Disagree? Let me know in the comments below!
Planet Pailly 
Jupiter – stripy. Love that. Neptune – cobalt ? Reduces one more planet to a single word. But… Uranus… did you know that Wikipedia identifies a shade of blue as Uranium Blue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shades_of_blue
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Wow, that’s awesome! I did not know that!
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I think Saturn is more yellow than beige. Beige is such a dreary colour, but Saturn looks much nicer (unless I’m looking at colour enhanced pictures)
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I can see the yellow. It’s a very light yellow, though, with low saturation. In my mind, I think of that as beige. But I can understand why someone else would call it yellow.
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I’d say that Saturn is a sorta gold-yellowish beige colour
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How about, golden? Lemon? I think caramel may be too brownish. I like xanthic, but I only found it during research. I wouldn’t have known what it was before. Hmm. Planets deserve their colors!
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Okay, the Xanthic Planet sounds pretty cool. Very Sci-Fi!
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This is great, and thanks for clarifying that you used math to arrive at there being 6 other planets. J00ps is the stripey one! I see Saturn as yellow, but I’m color blind, so who knows. There’s also this photo, which I love, from back when Voyager was in the neighborhood:
https://images.app.goo.gl/PbRuAyYqAf26whMA7
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I like it! I’m also influenced by Lewis, so Venus could be Perelandra!
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I think that Neptune is a sorta sapphire blue colour
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Yeah, I see that. It’s a very pretty shade of blue.
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