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why is the sky blue?

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  • 1 decade ago
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  • 1 decade ago

    You know how water is blue (this leads up to why the sky is blue, don't worry)? Well, when you hold it in your hand, its clear. But you know when you look far away, its blue! That's because the water that is far away can't be registered by our eyes as clear for some reason (the light spectrum or something). So our eyes resort to the closest color on the color scale...which is light blue. The same thing with the sky. When you look as close as your friend or many miles in front of you, its clear. but if you look up, its blue.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    It's the scattering and bending of the light rays through the earth's atmosphere. The background is always the galaxy as at night, but during the day, the light from the sun travels through and scatters, reflects, refracts etc, off of molecules in the atmosphere.

  • 1 decade ago

    blue is the color w see the furthest on the light spectrum, since the sky is so far up it appears blue to us. however the sky really has no color

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  • 1 decade ago

    light reflection from the water vapor in the air

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    because the ocean is the strongest light reflecting off of it

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    becuase of the ozone layer. and the ozone molecule is blue.

  • 1 decade ago

    in short, earth's atmoshpere interacts with sun's rays of light

  • 1 decade ago

    Because it just is

  • 1 decade ago

    why is the grass green?

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