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sanjohn: 5 months ago via iPhone

Why is the sky blue?

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Sexykeema: 5 months ago via iPhone

The sun's rays hit the Earth's atmosphere, where the light is scattered by nitrogen and oxygen molecules in the air. The blue wavelength of this light is affected more than the red and green wavelengths, causing the surrounding air to appear blue.

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guss7116: 5 months ago

Too much knowledge hurts my head!

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Sexykeema: 5 months ago via iPhone

Lol ;)

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crystal7: 5 months ago via iPhone | Last edited at 8:28PM on 1/8/2013

Reflecting off the ocean I have heard but that's what got made it

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sinaqua: 5 months ago

water reflected from the atmosphere

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anthony420: 5 months ago via iPhone | Last edited at 8:27PM on 1/8/2013

It's just the way the light bends thru our atmosphere...supposedly the reflected ocean theory isn't true!!

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keskeitz: 5 months ago

Alex, it's you! How are you?

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BeautyAndTheJedi: 5 months ago

The light from the sun is refracted by the atmosphere. In thinner spots, the sky is blue, when the atmosphere is thicker, it turns red and orange. Has nothing to do with the ocean :/

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gatorblu: 5 months ago

refraction of the sun's light.

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Soulfly21: 5 months ago

"The blue color of the sky is due to Rayleigh scattering. As light moves through the atmosphere, most of the longer wavelengths pass straight through. Little of the red, orange and yellow light is affected by the air.

However, much of the shorter wavelength light is absorbed by the gas molecules. The absorbed blue light is then radiated in different directions. It gets scattered all around the sky. Whichever direction you look, some of this scattered blue light reaches you. Since you see the blue light from everywhere overhead, the sky looks blue." Read More >>> http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/sky_blue.html

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pokefan33: 5 months ago

because the light is reflecting from the ocean

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Sweatervest: 5 months ago

Really? So what causes the ocean to turn grey on a stormy, cloudy day?

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Sweatervest: 5 months ago

Refraction of the suns light

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KLhASIAN: 5 months ago | Last edited at 8:47PM on 1/8/2013

the sky absorbs the other colors, but refracts the blue back to us, giving the appearance of a blue sky. But it's not really blue..

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guss7116: 5 months ago

Because God painted it that way.

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guss7116: 5 months ago

Wow 11 answers removed lol

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wildcatfan1993: 5 months ago via iPhone

Its not the blue is from light refracting off water molocules in the air

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keskeitz: 5 months ago

It gets picked on too much.

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JayzLvsemy: 5 months ago | Last edited at 7:57PM on 1/22/2013

it is basically due to the components or chemicals present in the sky in which each of those chemicals absorbs colors in the light spectrum and the color or combination of colors it reflects is the color we see. There are various chemicals so the resultant overall color is the combination of all the reflected colors by those chemicals individually.

Similar to the question of why are red apples red :)

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