Color Guide

Sun: Color the entire disk of the Sun yellow. Add orange and red over the mottled areas of the Sun's surface. Leave the white areas yellow. Color the prominences shooting out from the surface red.

Mercury: Color the entire planet light gray.


Venus: Color the entire planet orange. Darken the shaded areas with tan or light brown.

Earth: Color the oceans blue. Leave the clouds and the ice of Antarctica white. Color Africa and Madagascar tan with a green tint. Make the darker shaded areas slightly more brown.

Mars: Color the entire planet orange.

Jupiter: Color the light areas yellow. Make the red spot and the shaded band near it reddish. Color all shaded bands orange with a slight red tint.

Saturn: Color the entire planet and its rings tan or light orange.

Uranus: Color the entire planet blue green.

Neptune: With the exception of some white clouds near the Great Dark Spot, color the entire planet light blue. Make the spot and the shaded bands darker blue.

Pluto and Charon: Color the fuzzy outer edges light blue. Leave the centers white.

Comet: Leave white.

Asteroid: Color the entire asteroid light gray.

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