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Re: Why is the sky blue?

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Subject Re: Why is the sky blue?
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Am Freitag000024, 24.05.2024 um 20:55 schrieb neus:

>>>>
>>>> See here
>>>>
>>>> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Marble#/media/Datei:The_Earth_seen_from_Apollo_17.jpg
>>>>
>>>> The Earth looks entirely blueish from outside the atmosphere.
>>>>
>>>> TH
>>>
>>> Yes, The Earth looks entirely blueish from outside the atmosphere, 
>>> that is because so
>>>
>>> one can find the earth if you get lost in out of space. It is Why the 
>>> sky is blue...
>>>
>>> The Earth looks entirely blueish from outside the atmosphere.
>>>
>>
>> That means, that the radiation, which hit the atmosphere makes the air 
>> glow blueish.
>>
>> Iow: the sky radiates itself, after being hit by something from 
>> outside the Earth.
>>
>> If sunlight would be white, the atmopshere should also reflect in 
>> white and not glow in blue.
>>
>>
>> I don't what actaully makes the atmosphere glow blueish, but assume 
>> something 'electric' (kind of plasma glow).
>>
>>
>> TH
>>>
> ----------------------
> 
> Blue has a short wavelength, and is not blocked like colours of longer 
> wavelengths.

Well, no

Blue (or shorter wavelength) is generally less likely to pass through 
the atmosphere, compared with red.

Red is the colour that remains, if all the blue got absorbed.

It's a little more complicated, but in general IR passes better through 
air than UV.


TH

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