Sentences with phrase «colors reaching planets»
But the distribution of colors reaching planets orbiting other suns could be different.
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On Earth, the plant pigment chlorophyll absorbs the most abundant and highest - energy colors that reach the planet's surface — red and blue, respectively — while reflecting green, giving vegetation its color.
If comparatively more bluish or reddish light reaches a planet's surface than on Earth, photosynthetic plant - type life may may not be greenish in color, because such life will have evolved to different pigments in order to optimize their use of available and so color the appearance of the planet's land surfaces accordingly.