Why is the sky red at sunset if blue light is scattered the most
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During sunset, the Sun is the farthest away from the Earth at the horizon. Therefore, only red light, which has maximum wavelength, reaches our eyes while all the other colours having less wavelength, are absorbed in the atmosphere. Hence, the sky appears red.
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at this time of day the Sun is much lower in the sky, which means the sunlight we are seeing has travelled through much thicker atmosphere. Blue light gets scattered more amongst the atmosphere, so it tends to go off in other directions before it reaches us. This means there is much more red and yellow light for us to see.
In more basic terms, a lot happens to the light from the Sun before it reaches our eyes. A lot of the light gets absorbed or filtered by the atmosphere before it reaches us
When the Sun is lower in the sky, like at sunset, the path the light has to take to our eyes is longer. So the blue colours get filtered out and scattered in other directions more, leaving us with the pretty reds and oranges that have been making the striking sunsets recently.
So basically, the pretty colours are all down to the positioning of the Sun in the sky and the distance the light has to travel before it gets to us.
HOPE IT HELPS YOU! !!!
at this time of day the Sun is much lower in the sky, which means the sunlight we are seeing has travelled through much thicker atmosphere. Blue light gets scattered more amongst the atmosphere, so it tends to go off in other directions before it reaches us. This means there is much more red and yellow light for us to see.
In more basic terms, a lot happens to the light from the Sun before it reaches our eyes. A lot of the light gets absorbed or filtered by the atmosphere before it reaches us
When the Sun is lower in the sky, like at sunset, the path the light has to take to our eyes is longer. So the blue colours get filtered out and scattered in other directions more, leaving us with the pretty reds and oranges that have been making the striking sunsets recently.
So basically, the pretty colours are all down to the positioning of the Sun in the sky and the distance the light has to travel before it gets to us.
HOPE IT HELPS YOU! !!!
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