2007-11-16 04:58:05 · 10 answers · asked by Slayer 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
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2007-11-16 05:38:53 · answer #1 · answered by Lady Geologist 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Just like a prism that refracts light into different colors, the atmosphere acts in the same principle. By the time the light is visibile to us, we see the blue spectrem of color. During dusk and dawn, the sun is further away and refracts off the atmosphere at different angles, this is why you see oranges and reds during the sunrise and sunset.
2007-11-17 10:19:55 · answer #2 · answered by B. Wags 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the properties of the chemicals that make up the sky. the sky is made of air. air is more nitrogen than anything. the nature of that chemical, nitrogen, causes it to diffuse the blue thats in light more than the other colors that are in light. if the sky were made of some other gas it could have a different color or possibly still be blue depending on the gas. nitrogen is not the only gas in the world that will diffuse blue light.
2007-11-16 05:05:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
A clear cloudless day-time sky is blue because molecules in the air scatter blue light from the sun more than they scatter red light. When we look towards the sun at sunset, we see red and orange colours because the blue light has been scattered out and away from the line of sight.
2007-11-16 05:01:50 · answer #4 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The sky is blue because...well.....um....it just is! It always has been and always will bwe....well...except for when it is raining out.....or snowing...or windy, cuz the its Grey. um...yeah!
2007-11-16 05:06:40 · answer #5 · answered by Lexy 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
For the same reason that footballs don't have wheels, and there are no bones in ice cream.
2007-11-16 05:05:23 · answer #6 · answered by Dirty Dave 6 · 3⤊ 3⤋
reflection of light from the sun on the ocean.
2007-11-16 05:01:30 · answer #7 · answered by Steven M 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
so we can distinguish it from the grass.
it is due to the refraction of light in the water vapor in the atmosphere
2007-11-16 05:01:48 · answer #8 · answered by sydney_22_f 4 · 0⤊ 4⤋
^i agree with Geo^
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2007-11-16 07:47:13 · answer #9 · answered by 22 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2007-11-16 05:36:42 · answer #10 · answered by libaki 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋