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Plants in Super Habitable Exoplanets Could Look Purple


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Here some mind-blowing possibilities about super habitable exoplanets:

1. The colour of the sky could be light blue, similar to the colour of the sky on Earth in summer. 

2. The oceans could be shallow, with a turquoise blue colour.

3. The vegetation could cover more regions than in Earth, and the colour of the trees could be purple. 

Do you agree with these hypotheses?

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Yep, agreed, but they're not really mind-blowing when you think about them.

A habitable planet with an atmosphere similar to that of Earth will have a blue sky, as an atmosphere like that scatters light blue light. And if the planet has oceans of water, like Earth, then the oceans will be a similar colour.

As for purple plants, that would be due to the plants using something other than chlorophyll for photosynthesis. I can't remember exactly what the stuff is called though.

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