on a summer day it is blue but it is gray when it is raining and grean and yellow durring a tornaddo or hurracane. i do not undershtand the sky it confounds me bad!
2006-09-02 16:19:26 · 23 answers · asked by BestGuitaristEver! 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Because if it was green, we wouldnt know what was up or down :)
2006-09-02 16:21:22 · answer #1 · answered by Serious Mandy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The blue color of the sky is due to Rayleigh scattering. As light moves through the atmosphere, most of the longer wavelengths pass straight through. Little of the red, orange and yellow light is affected by the air.
However, much of the shorter wavelength light is absorbed by the gas molecules. The absorbed blue light is then radiated in different directions. It gets scattered all around the sky. Whichever direction you look, some of this scattered blue light reaches you. Since you see the blue light from everywhere overhead, the sky looks blue.
2006-09-02 23:21:21 · answer #2 · answered by missourim43 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Rayleigh scattering (named after Lord Rayleigh) is the scattering of light, or other electromagnetic radiation, by particles much smaller than the wavelength of the light. It occurs when light travels in transparent solids and liquids, but is most prominently seen in gases. Rayleigh scattering of sunlight by the atmosphere is the main reason light from the sky is blue.
2006-09-03 00:03:39 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the sky is blue because the color blus has the shortest wave length in the electromagnetis specturm so after all the other colors have been refracted and reflected on the way through the atmosphere, it leave blue to be sent to earth. thus we see te sky as blue
2006-09-02 23:22:25 · answer #4 · answered by Cam 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The sky is blue cuhz all the crips go to heaven
C'Z up
H'Z to da side
C-51
2006-09-02 23:25:03 · answer #5 · answered by magdaleal14 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the sky is blue because the stars shine in the day time but you cant see it becasue the stars shine off off the other colors in space whick makes this sky blue color..... at night time the sun goes down which couses only one color....not white...but black.
2006-09-02 23:22:09 · answer #6 · answered by Aycilla 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For all its silence, the sky has a radiant language
2006-09-02 23:25:56 · answer #7 · answered by -:¦:-SKY-:¦:- 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the oxygen and water in the atmosphere and the angle of the sun contribute
2006-09-02 23:22:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is blue because colors r wave lenths and blue is the shortest. the other colors r reflctions
2006-09-02 23:22:30 · answer #9 · answered by jesse james 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's when you see that jet black cloud heading your way that you have to be scared.
Especially if you are a first born!
2006-09-02 23:21:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋