2006-07-24 04:26:00 · 11 answers · asked by violinplayer06 1 in Environment
The color comes from a process called Raleigh scattering. Small particles of anything, including dust or gas, cause shorter wavelength light to be strongly scattered while longer wavelength light is less strongly scattered.
The color does not depend on oxygen, water, ozone, or any of the other things you might have been told. It is completely independent of the substance.
A few drops of milk in a tank of water in a dark room will show this. Milk is white, but when you mix it into the water and shine a flashlight through it, you will see the same color as blue sky.
2006-07-24 04:32:05 · answer #1 · answered by aichip_mark2 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The sky is blue due to the scattering of sunlight when it moves thru the upper atmosphere. The atmosphere acts like a prizm with the blue light the dominant frequency being scattered giving the sky the beautiful aszure blue cast all over the world.
2006-07-24 11:32:30 · answer #2 · answered by wealthmaster 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As light comes in from the sun, and hits the atmosphere, it diffuses, the blue rays fan out the furthest while all the others stay relatively closer together, except at sunset, which is because there's much more interference from denser air and air pollution, which makes EVERYTHING spread out the most, giving you the red and purple horizon.
2006-07-24 11:45:31 · answer #3 · answered by Archangel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some sunlight and a little bit of water reflection to the sky dome.
2006-07-24 11:32:15 · answer #4 · answered by Charles D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well technically the sky is blue due to the reflection and absorption of light. blue is reflected and the rest of the colours in the spectrum are absorbed.
2006-07-24 11:38:09 · answer #5 · answered by cute_kitten_xx 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its mourning the world ha ha nice one, well the scientific reason is that its reflecting the colour of the ocean. but the other reson was more interesting
2006-07-24 11:33:34 · answer #6 · answered by shuki 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's in mourning over world events
2006-07-24 11:30:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Seriously: AIR is BLUE.
2006-07-24 12:48:54 · answer #8 · answered by Luis 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's like this. the color blue is being reflected while all the other colors in the spectrum are being absorbed.
2006-07-24 12:08:09 · answer #9 · answered by pulchritudinoushoofer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
water vapor in the air.
2006-07-24 11:28:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋