Explain giving reason why the sky appears blue to an observer from the surface of the earth? What will the colour of the sky be for an astronaut staying in the international space station orbiting the earth? Justify your answer giving reason.
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the sky appears blue because the rays of light coming from sun gets inside the atmosphere and as we know that light is made up of seven colors and blue is one of them. The blue color is absorbed by the atmosphere and it appears to be blue. The earth appears to be blue for an astronomers because the same thing happens in the case of water
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THE SKY APPEARS BLUE FROM THE SURFACE(LAND) BECAUSE OF THE SCATTERING OF LIGHT....
THE EARTH FROM SPACE APPEARS BLUE DUE TO THE FACT THAT EARTH CONSIST OF 71% OF WATER ON ITS CRUST....
THIS IS ALSO THE REASON WHY WE CALL EARTH A BLUE PLANET...
WATER IN THE OCEANS REFLECTS THE SKY AND SO IT IS BLUE....
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THE EARTH FROM SPACE APPEARS BLUE DUE TO THE FACT THAT EARTH CONSIST OF 71% OF WATER ON ITS CRUST....
THIS IS ALSO THE REASON WHY WE CALL EARTH A BLUE PLANET...
WATER IN THE OCEANS REFLECTS THE SKY AND SO IT IS BLUE....
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The scattering of the various components of the sunlight is purely dependent on the wavelength of the light. The light with the smallest wavelength is scattered most. Out of all the colors in white light, the blue has the smallest wavelength and therefore, it is scattered all throughout the sky and makes the sky to appear blue.
The sky appears black to the astronaut because there is no scattering of the light at higher altitudes. The light that reaches the space station do no scatter at all.
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