How would Earth look like from space if it didn't have an atmosphere?

Subject: How would Earth look like from space if it didn't have an atmosphere?

Date: Tue May 15 10:01:12 2001
Posted by Ron
Grade level: 10-12 School: Metrowest High School
City: Raanana State/Province: Israel Country: Israel
Area of science: Astronomy
ID: 989935272.As

Message:


I know that the atmosphere acts as a color filter for any light coming from the 
sky, so we don't see objects in the sky exactly as they are. My guess is that 
Earth would look different from space if it didn't have its very own color 
filter, the atmosphere. So suppose Earth still had all of its features, only it 
didn't have an atmosphere filtering all of its colors. Would it look any 
different? How different?

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