Why the Sky is Blue
Language: English 
Light from the sun
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This text is a conflation by the composer drawn from Carl Aude, who works at NASA. The answer is based in part on the explanation in Hecht, Eugene. Optics. 2nd Edition. New York: Addison-Wesley, 1988. pp. 293-294 ipl.org/div/farq/skyFARQ.html


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