sky
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sunlight…the varying colour of the sky at different times of day. When the sun is high overhead, its rays pass through the intervening atmosphere almost vertically. The light thus encounters less dust and fewer air molecules than it would if the sun were low on the horizon and its rays…
Read More…the varying colour of the sky at different times of day. When the sun is high overhead, its rays pass through the intervening atmosphere almost vertically. The light thus encounters less dust and fewer air molecules than it would if the sun were low on the horizon and its rays…
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electromagnetic radiationScattering, reflection, and refraction…it is the reason the sky is blue and the setting Sun is red. The higher-frequency blue light from the Sun is scattered much more by the atoms and molecules of Earth’s atmosphere than is the lower-frequency red light. Hence, the light of the setting Sun, which passes through a…
Read More…it is the reason the sky is blue and the setting Sun is red. The higher-frequency blue light from the Sun is scattered much more by the atoms and molecules of Earth’s atmosphere than is the lower-frequency red light. Hence, the light of the setting Sun, which passes through a…
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