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What is the difference between red stakes and yellow stakes?

{"status":"advice","headline":"ADVICE | Red vs yellow penalty areas","action":"Red and yellow stakes both mark penalty areas, but they give different relief options when you take penalty relief.","rule":"Rule 17.1","rule_code":"Rule 17.1","rule_title":"Penalty Areas","rule_summary":"Under the Rules of Golf by the R&A and USGA, red and yellow penalty areas both allow play as it lies or relief with one penalty stroke. Red penalty areas give an extra lateral relief option that yellow penalty areas do not.","penalty_strokes":1,"situation":"Your ball is in a marked penalty area.","options":[{"id":"play_as_lies","text":"Play the ball as it lies from the penalty area.","penalty":0,"procedure":"You may play it from the penalty area without penalty, if possible."},{"id":"stroke_and_distance","text":"Stroke-and-distance relief.","penalty":1,"procedure":"Play again from where the previous stroke was made."},{"id":"back_on_line","text":"Back-on-the-line relief.","penalty":1,"procedure":"Drop a ball on a line going straight back from the hole through the estimated point where the ball last crossed the edge of the penalty area."},{"id":"lateral_red_only","text":"Lateral relief — red penalty area only.","penalty":1,"procedure":"Drop within two club-lengths of the estimated point where the ball last crossed the edge of the red penalty area, no nearer the hole."}],"suggestion":"Practical tip: yellow usually means you go back on the line or replay; red also lets you drop sideways within two club-lengths.","procedure":null,"branches":[],"clarifying_question":null,"answer_options":[],"clarifying_questions":[],"disclaimer":"Grounded in the Rules of Golf – the final ruling always belongs to the people on the course: your group, a referee, or the Committee.","rules_basis":"R_AND_A_USGA"}