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Re:NASA Hubble Finds a True Blue Planet by btipling on Friday July 12, 2013 @09:33AM (#6032463)
> The cobalt blue color comes not from the reflection of a tropical ocean as it does on Earth, but rather a hazy, blow-torched atmosphere containing high clouds laced with silicate particles. Silicates condensing in the heat could form very small drops of glass that scatter blue light more than red ligh

Are they using something in addition to a spectograph to know this?

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