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Apr 23, 2019 · In environments with more water vapor in the air, this results in sunsets that are more watered down, or pastel-colored. But in the desert, drier air means more vivid color wavelengths are able to ...
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Discover the fascinating science behind the colours of the sky at different times of the day and how they affect our mood in this article from BBC Science Focus Magazine.
Jul 18, 2018 · The Sun is low on the horizon at sunrise and sunset. At these times of the day, sunlight has had to travel through more of the atmosphere to reach us. When light hits the atmosphere it is scattered, particularly when dust, smoke and other particles are in the air. This scattering affects the blue part of the light spectrum the most.
Why is the sunset red or orange? At sunrise and sunset, the Sun is very low in the sky, which means that the sunlight we see has travelled through a much thicker amount of atmosphere. Because blue light is scattered more strongly by the atmosphere, it tends to be scattered several times and deflected away in other directions before it gets to ...
The red colour we see during a sunset is namely due to the scattering of light from the sun off of particles in the atmosphere. The type of scattering responsible for this is called Rayleigh scattering and occurs when the particle doing the scattering is much smaller than the wavelength of radiation being scattered.
A beautiful sunset often brings to mind the rhyme 'Red sky at night, shepherd's delight' which suggests good weather is on its way. But Alex revealed that that's not quite the case. "What you’re ...
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Oct 29, 2013 · Red Sky at Night: The Science of Sunsets. A meteorologist explains why the sky is sometimes so colorful. On a recent autumn night here in Washington, D.C., the sun seemed to personify a Dylan ...
