• Question: Why’s is the sky blue?

    Asked by anon-208899 to Tori, Titus, Stuart, Hannah, Gill, Alessandro on 8 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Stuart Higgins

      Stuart Higgins answered on 8 Mar 2019:

      Light from the sun is all colours combined. The light scatters (bounces) off air molecules in the atmosphere. The red-end of the rainbow scatters less, and the blue-end scatters more, so more blue light ends up hitting your eyes.

      NASA website on why the sky is blue: https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/blue-sky/en/

    • Photo: Hannah Dalgleish

      Hannah Dalgleish answered on 9 Mar 2019:

    • Photo: Gill Harrison

      Gill Harrison answered on 10 Mar 2019:

      I can only wish it had been blue this weekend. Grey and black is all I’ve seen, inbetween snow!

      Stuart and Hannah have answered this already.

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