okay, so one day i am driving to school with other people. then we notice that the sun is well red. and so, i wonder what makes it red. and could you give a website for an explanation for me to go to? i was thinking of doing a report on it for science.
2006-09-27 18:14:48 · 16 answers · asked by science project due on 17th 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
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The Sun looks red during a sunset because of Earth's atmosphere. When the Sun goes down, we see it through gases and dust that are in the sky.
The color it appears to be depends on what is in the air. If you see red, it is because all the other colors are being absorbed by the particles, but the color red is being reflected.
This is also what causes the sky to look all different colors. This is actually one good reason to have pollution! If the air was cleaner, we wouldn't have such pretty sunsets!
2006-09-27 18:22:16 · answer #1 · answered by mallimalar_2000 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Dust and smoke particles in the air.
A Georgia swamper man told us last night it's going to be cold tomorrow morning. Hold on a sec, let me check the weather... Well, low of 61 degrees F. overnight. But I wonder if we've got dust blown over from the Sahara.
Anyone know?
2006-09-27 18:18:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The sun isn't really red. What you saw was the sun filtered through the atmosphere.
2006-09-28 04:42:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Air pollution absorbs more of the shorter light waves (green, blue, indigo, etc). So the red waves pass through and the sun looks red.
2006-09-27 18:18:53 · answer #4 · answered by captn_carrot 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The more atmosphere and dust the light goes through, like at dusk, the more red light is scattered instead of the higher energy wavelenghts like blue.
2006-09-27 18:18:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sun is really a burning hydrogen and it should be blue flame. But due to filtering while traveling it looks red. If we can look closer it will be blue.
2006-09-27 18:18:05 · answer #6 · answered by Rammohan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The sunlight filtering through airborne dust makes it different colors, including red.
2006-09-27 18:16:08 · answer #7 · answered by roamin70 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not red. The appearance of the "red" color is caused by dust, most of the time, smoke or smog, some of the time, and paint never.
2006-09-27 18:17:35 · answer #8 · answered by tired 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
red color spreads more than any other color because of its wave lengh is different ; as such you see first red color coming from sun then gradually you see others colors till you see all colors i.e. combined to have white look .
2006-09-27 18:22:16 · answer #9 · answered by deepak57 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is the dust and or ice in the atmosphere. filtering out the light waves
2006-09-27 18:19:57 · answer #10 · answered by jadamgrd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋