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WHAT IS THE TRUE COLOUR OF THE SKY?

What is the link between Rayleigh scattering and the colour of the sky?

  • I understand why the sky is blue. (Sort of.) But what I don't understand is why sky turns red/orange during sunset and sunrise. And I also don't understand why sky is never green. (Yes, thank you, Yahoo!Answers, most eloquent people who have a firm grasp of the English language have a lot of punctuation. I don't need you to tell me that.)

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    the sky turns red/ orange because when you look at the setting sun it is parrallel to the horizon. the sunlight you are seing has to go through the dust and dirt of the atmosphere which gets refracted. think prism.

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