why does the sun appear reddish early in the morning
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in the morning sun is at its farthest distance from the atmosphere. So all the light which comes towards Earth gets scattered and only the higher wavelength of red light enters the atmosphere and reaches the viewers eye. Rest of the lower blue wavelengths get scattered way up in the atmosphere by smaller particles and hence doesn't reach the observers eye.
in the morning sun is at its farthest distance from the atmosphere. So all the light which comes towards Earth gets scattered and only the higher wavelength of red light enters the atmosphere and reaches the viewers eye. Rest of the lower blue wavelengths get scattered way up in the atmosphere by smaller particles and hence doesn't reach the observers eye.
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Explanation:
During sunrise, the light rays coming from the Sun have to travel a greater distance in the earth's atmosphere before reaching our eyes. In this journey, the shorter wavelengths of lights are scattered out and only longer wavelengths are able to reach our eyes. Since blue colour has a shorter wavelength and red colour has a longer wavelength, the red colour is able to reach our eyes after the atmospheric scattering of light. Therefore, the Sun appears reddish early in the morning.
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