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English: The blue color of the sky is caused by Rayleigh scattering of sunlight by the gases in the Earth's atmosphere. The above image shows the degree to which Rayleigh scattering scatters blue light more intensely than red light.

The scattering curve shown is calculated for sunlight passing vertically through the atmosphere and is based on Other details, such as scattering from dust and absorption of some light by greenhouse gases are not shown.

This image was created by Robert A. Rohde and is licensed under the GFDL.
Date 9 June 2007 (original upload date)
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Author The original uploader was Dragons flight at English Wikipedia.
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