Why is the sky blue.....

just wondering (:

the sun emits different colors of light at different wavelengths and the gas in the atmosphere causes these to reflect or absorb to different extents and blue is the one that is reflected the most thus is why we see the sky blue rather than red

Sunlight reaches Earth's atmosphere and is scattered in all directions by all the gases and particles in the air. Blue light is scattered in all directions by the tiny molecules of air in Earth's atmosphere. Blue is scattered more than other colors because it travels as shorter, smaller waves. This is why we see a blue sky most of the time.

Closer to the horizon, the sky fades to a lighter blue or white. The sunlight reaching us from low in the sky has passed through even more air than the sunlight reaching us from overhead. As the sunlight has passed through all this air, the air molecules have scattered and rescattered the blue light many times in many directions. Also, the surface of Earth has reflected and scattered the light. All this scattering mixes the colors together again so we see more white and less blue.

The diameters of air molecules and atoms are the same the wavelengths of blue light. It's called "Rayleigh scattering, which is explained here:

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hba…

Why is the sky in south western Kansas, U.S.A. blue? It's hundreds to more than a thousand miles from any ocean.

It's not, it's actually black and the reflections from the sun give it a blue shade, that's why it turns black when the sun goes down because the moon does not have that same reflection effect.

It's not, it's actually black and the reflections from the sun give it a blue shade, that's why it turns black when the sun goes down because the moon does not have that same reflection effect.

Reflection from the ocean, innit?

It was how the world was made

Particles are spread from the sun.

Its supposed to be.