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Air can refract, or bend, light. When the Sun is rising or setting, the path of the sun's rays through the air are bent downward, with the red light being bent down more than the blue light. So when you see a red sunrise or a red sunset, you're seeing the Sun down BELOW the horizon, with the red rays being bent around the Earth to your eyes, just as a prism does.
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∙ 13y agoThe same reason the sky is blue and the same reason sunset is sometimes green. Light is refracted through the atmosphere; different frequencies bend to a different angle. Because certain frequencies are associated with particular colours (the order of the rainbow represents an increase in frequency) and because the sun is at particular angles throughout the day, the frequencies that we see change as well. In the morning, it happens that the red end of the spectrum is the dominant part at that time
The light from the Sun, when passing through the atmosphere, hits molecules of gases and the blue frequencies are spread in all directions (that is why the clear sky looks blue). What is not spread out are the yellow and red frequencies/energies, so the Sun appears redest when the light travels through the most atmosphere (sunrise and sunset)
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∙ 14y agoThe shortest wavelengths of light (blue) are the ones most heavily absorbed by air, and the longest wavelengths of light (red) are the ones that survive the trip best through air. This effect is most noticeable when there's the most air in the path of the light, and that's the situation when the sun is low in the sky ... at sunrise and sunset.
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∙ 13y agoWell, according to Axel from the Kingdom Hearts series: You see, light is made up of lots of colors. And out of all those colors, red is the one that travels the farthest...
What that means is that red is the last color seen, when the sun sets. This is due to light, which is a combination of many colors. When the sun is setting, all of those colors are slower-moving, and it is no longer bright outside, because the colors are all moving at a separate pace. The other colors start disappearing, and red (being the fastest), is what is last seen.
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∙ 14y agoThe rays of light from the Sun travel through much more air when the sun is low , near the horizon. The bluer light is diffracted and spread by air and dust particles (that's one of the components causing the sky to appear blue!) What remains is the red portion of the spectrum.
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∙ 12y agoWater molecules in the atomosphere act like a prism separating the light.
Scattering due to dust particles and air molecules is responsible for this effect.
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∙ 12y agoThe sun does not change color. The angle of the rays produces color effects when the sun appears low on the horizon.and i said so me fun man what up
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∙ 12y agoIt usually means there's a lot of particulate matter (dust or smoke) in the air.
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∙ 13y agoThe suns rays are just hitting the darkness
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How do the ancient people locate places?
ancient people use marks on places they've already been to they also make their own maps in places they already discovered
What does That will be ere the set of sun mean?
Before the sun sets
When will the world explode into 500 pieces?
Never. The world will be burnt to a crisp when the sun becomes a red giant in around 5 billion years.
Example of present tense general truth?
the sun rises in the east
Why does the sphinx point east?
Because the Sun rises in the east and that to the ancients meant the beginning of life.
What is the least color wave that is least scattered when sun rises or sets?
blue and red
Where does the sun rise and set Or does it?
The sun only rises and sets from your viewpoint- standing on the earth. As the earth turns, the sun becomes visible (rises) as your part of the world turns into the sun's light- it sets when your part of the world turns away from the light. But the sun is still shining- just on someplace where you are not.
What are the verbs in the sun rises in the east and sets in west?
The verbs are "rises" and "sets".
In witch direction does the sun rises?
The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. This is, of course, apparent motion and not true motion.
How can you tell direction from the sun?
Well the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. By knowing this, you can determine which way is north.
The sun sets in the west?
The sun sets in the west and rises in the east. The Sun rises in the east because the Earth spins on its axis towards the east.
What does the sun do when the full moon rises?
The sun sets...
What direction does the sun rises and set?
the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. by leanne marriott x
In the northern hemisphere the sun sets in the what?
In the Northern Hemisphere, the Sun apparently rises in the east and sets in the west. In the Southern Hemisphere, it is the other way around. The Sun rises in the west and sets in the east. Note that the Sun does not actually move, it is Earth that makes it appear to move.
What time does the sun set in the east?
The sun sets in the west, not in the east. It rises in the east and sets in the west due to the Earth's rotation.
How do you get the directions by sun?
Sun rises from the East, and sets in the West.
In neptune sun rises in west or east?
it rises in the west and sets in the east.
