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Why is Neptune red?

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The methane gas in neptune's atmosphere absorbs the red light waves where as jupiter doesn't. Jupiter turns red from the light waves and neptune absorbs the waves and turns them into gases that turn the planet blue - green colour.

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The answer to Neptune's color comes from its cloud tops upper atmosphere of Neptune is made up of 80 hydrogen,19 helium with a trace 1 amount of methane and other ices,like ammonia and water.Methane absorbs light at 600nm,which is the red end of the spectrum of visible light.

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The methane gas makes it blue, but other gases that swarm the atmosphere make it purple.

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It isn't.

Neptune is blue, caused by the blue light spectrum in the dim sunlight being reflected off the methane gasses in the atmosphere.

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Because of the methane and chromophore in neptunes atmosphere!!

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