[meteorite-list] Why is the sky blue?
From: Michael Casper <Michael_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:55:51 2004 Message-ID: <000a01c1a559$7d0a8b80$0200a8c0_at_Domain> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C1A52F.93E09720 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable A clear cloudless day-time sky is blue because molecules in the air = scatter blue light from the sun more than they scatter red light. When = we look towards the sun at sunset we see red and orange colours because = the blue light has been scattered out and away from the line of sight.=20 ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C1A52F.93E09720 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-1" = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META content=3D"MSHTML 5.00.2614.3500" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2><BR>A clear cloudless day-time sky is = blue because=20 molecules in the air scatter blue light from the sun more than they = scatter red=20 light. When we look towards the sun at sunset we see red and orange = colours=20 because the blue light has been scattered out and away from the line of = sight.=20 <BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C1A52F.93E09720-- Received on Thu 24 Jan 2002 11:33:50 PM PST |
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