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Why is the sky blue? __//** The color of the sky is because of a thing called Rayleigh scattering. As the light travels through the atmosphere, most of the longer wavelengths pass right through. Smaller red, orange and yellow light is greatly affected by the air. Much of the shorter wavelength light is absorbed by gas molecules. The absorbed blue light is than radiated in several directions. At that point it is then scattered all throughout the sky. No matter what direction you look, some of the scattered light reaches you. Since you see the blue light from all over from up above that is why the sky looks blue.

West Texas Sky

//__ Interesting Fact- __// A raindrop falls at 600ft. per min. A single raindrop is round although it appears to be oval only because gravitation pulls on the front of the raindrop as it is following.

//__ Works Cited: __// [|//www.sciencemadesimple.com//] [|//www.randomfacts.org/skyfacts///]