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chthonic, Thu 17 Mar 2005, 14:48)
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The sky is blue because that is the colour of the skyIts nothing to do with the sea. The majority of sunlight passes through the particles in the air, but a lot of the shorter visible wavelengths (ie the blue end of the spectrum) are reflected. Thats why the sky is equally as blue in the middle of a continent as it is in the middle of the ocean.
The reddish colours as the sun sets are due to the increasing amount of air the sun's rays have to travel through to reach your eyes. The lower it gets, the more of the blue light is reflected and scattered and so the less blue reaches you. Very little of the red light is scattered, and so thats what you see most of.
Easiest solution: Google 'Why is the sky blue?'
(, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 23:58, Reply)
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