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Ever wondered why the sky looks blue? In this quick video, we explain how sunlight scatters through the atmosphere, making the sky appear blue during the day...
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Optical Engineer Cory Boone explains how different light wavelengths cause the sky to appear blue during the day and change colors at sunrise or sunset.
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Ever wondered why the sky is blue? In this video, we break down the science behind it in a fun and easy way!
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- It's Easy to See That The Sky Is Blue. Have You Ever Wondered Why?
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- Is The Sky Blue on Other Planets, Too?
A lot of other smart people have, too. And it took a long time to figure it out! The light from the Sun looks white. But it is really made up of all the colors of the rainbow. When white light shines through a prism, the light is separated into all its colors. A prism is a specially shaped crystal. If you visited The Land of the Magic Windows, you ...
As the Sun gets lower in the sky, its light is passing through more of the atmosphere to reach you. Even more of the blue light is scattered, allowing the reds and yellows to pass straight through to your eyes.
It all depends on what’s in the atmosphere! For example, Mars has a very thin atmosphere made mostly of carbon dioxide and filled with fine dust particles. These fine particles scatter light differently than the gases and particles in Earth’s atmosphere. Photos from NASA’s rovers and landers on Mars have shown us that at sunset there is actually th...
Why is the Sky Blue? On a clear sunny day, the sky above us is a brilliant blue. In the evening, the sunset puts on a beautiful show of reds, pinks and oranges.
It’s because human eyes are actually more sensitive to detecting blue light, and more of the sunlight coming into the Earth’s atmosphere is blue rather than violet. Small air molecules in the Earth’s atmosphere scatter the sunlight during the day to give us a blue coloured sky.
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Sep 30, 2015 · The blue sky we see is the blue light from the Sun which is re-emitted by the air molecules in all directions by Rayleigh scattering. One other thing that the diagram shows is that violet light has a shorter wavelength than blue and it is scattered even more.
