Why???
2006-08-06 02:59:50 · 26 answers · asked by keℓsey<3 4 in Travel ➔ Travel (General) ➔ Other - Destinations
Why is the sea blue? The answer to both is the same. Water reflects blue light more than any other color. As light comes through the atmosphere, it reflects of tiny water droplets suspended in the air, giving it its blue color. At sunrise or sunset, the angle changes so much that the light is actually coming through more atmosphere and is filtered through gases closer ot the surface, leading to many of the cool colors being absorbed and reflected away from the sky, leaving read and oranges to shine on the bottom of the clouds, giving us our gorgeous sunsets. The bad news there is that pollution actually makes more of this last effect, leading to prettier sunsets. These are often a sign of poor air quality.
2006-08-06 03:05:36 · answer #1 · answered by But why is the rum always gone? 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sigh. It is not "reflection." The word is REFRACTION.
Sunlight passing through the atmosphereis bent and some elements of the light filtered so that the blu range of the spectrum is emphasized. If you use a prism to separate light into its colors, you can see the entire band of the spectrum. You can also see a different example of refraction if you put a spoon into a glass of water.
In addition, there is also "scattering," the diffusion of photons around and through the atmosphere by water vapor, dust, and other particles. And, finally, there is an aspect of reflection, yes, that bounces light back into the atmosphere from the planet below.
And then the atmosphere reflects much of that light back down, again causing refraction, diffusion or scattering, etc. The darker shades of the spectrum are "heavier" wavelengths that lose energy more rapidly so that the "lighter" tones dominate, within a brighter background of "white light" that is a result of all shades of the spectrum in the higher levels of the atmosphere.
OK?
Next time do your own homework.
2006-08-06 10:11:57 · answer #2 · answered by Der Lange 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
all other answers are wrong. the sky is not blue, even though that's how it appears to our brains' interpreted by our eyes. the sky is actually orange. it appears blue to us due to the light refraction caused by our atmosphere.
2006-08-06 10:04:44 · answer #3 · answered by bakbiter 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Air particles reflect blue light.
2006-08-06 10:04:16 · answer #4 · answered by xxilikethewayyoumovexx 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's the reflection of light passing through the Earth's atmosphere.
2006-08-06 10:03:22 · answer #5 · answered by hpneil 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Light reflecting off the atmosphere.
2006-08-06 10:03:04 · answer #6 · answered by JeffyB 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Reflection from the Ocean.
2006-08-06 10:02:41 · answer #7 · answered by djw008 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because of the blue reflection of the ocean
2006-08-06 10:06:40 · answer #8 · answered by Vtang 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because water is blue !
2006-08-06 10:04:58 · answer #9 · answered by Shahan Subzwari 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-08-06 10:03:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋