why is the sky orange during sunset?

Answer 1

~Check you science book under 'refraction' or prismatic effect. You might also want to read up on pollution, both natural and man made.

By the way, sunsets come in all colors, but the green flash is by far the prettiest, should you be lucky enough to see it, but that has an altogether different origin.

Answer 2

The sky appears the color it appears because the sun's visible light rays are filtered out by the Earth's atmosphere. Blue skies are blue because all the other light waves are scattered and the blue light waves are the ones that actually reach our eyes. The sky is orange at sunset because of the thickness of the atmosphere that the light rays pass through. Here's a fun experiment you can try to see for yourself:
First gather a glass of water, some milk, a flashlight, and a piece of paper. Stand the paper behind the glass and shine the flashlight through the water onto the paper. Add milk to the water, one drop at a time. The water in the glass should appear to turn blue and the flashlight disk will turn yellow. The milk has the same effect as particles in the atmosphere which scatter all but certain wavelengths of light. This is what makes the sky look blue and the sun look yellow.

Answer 3

If it were thickness of the atmosphere, why not a sunset everyday. The reason is that light waves are reflected by particles of a similar size to the wave. If the particles are larger than the wavelength, they reflect the light effectively. If the particles are smaller, the light wave can move around the particle. Blue light has smaller wavelengths (since it has higher frequency). Red light has bigger wave length. Dust paticles will effectively block out blue light since blue light has small wave lengths, in this case smaller than the dust particles, thus letting more of the red light come through. This is why the best sunsets happen when there is a good deal of wind that stirs the dust up usually at sunset. During the night the wind calms down, the dust settles, and the sunup is usually not orange.

Answer 4

The sky turns different colors when the sun sets because of the way the light is scattered in the atmosphere. When the sun is low in the sky at

sunrise and sunset, the light has to go through more of the air. More blue light is scattered out but almost all of the red and yellow light reaches

our eyes. When a lot of small particles, such as dust or air pollution, are in the air, the sky is even more red because these particles scatter even

more of the blue light.

Answer 5

What Makes The Sky Orange

Answer 6

Mostly because by the time the sun is setting, the Earth has been warmed-up on the daylit side, causing more air movement, which in turn picks up more dust and scatters it throughout the atmosphere. Seen through the fine dust, the light takes on a reddish cast. In the morning, the dust has usually settled down, which is why sunrises are often not as red as sunsets.
There's an old weather phrase:
Red sky at morning; sailor take warning.
Red sky at night; sailors delight.

Answer 7

When the sun sets it is the most beautiful thing when the sun hits a certain part of sun glares reflect onto the waters of the ocean and that refracts back to the sky in the tones of reds and orange. Not many people take the time to fully consume the delight that comes from this. Very WONDERFUL question. Good Luck and best wishes to you

Answer 8

i heard the color of the sky during the sunset tells u what the weather will be like the day after. Not sure if it is true.

Answer 9

Well its not that the sun is shining through a thicker atmosphere, but from our point of view the rays from the sun, to get to us had the travel through more atmosphere. That is to say, when it is noon, the sun is shining to us directly. But when its on the horizon, its shining through atmosphere that is near the earth's surface that is far away, too. . Imagine you are looking through a sheet of glass streight on. But then you tilt the glass, more and more. The images you see through the glass start to become distorted right? Thats because of the imperfections in the glass.. I think now you get the concept right?

Answer 10

you know there is forever position between sun and earth movement. so on specific earth place suppose your town when high pressure air locates at the sun side and low pressure air locates at farther side and sun locates at angle position you ll see the orange color. it is because these air composition act like giant lens and breaks sun light into certain spektras and your eyes detect only visible red/orange spectras.