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- From: jtyrkko@vipunen.hut.fi (Juha-Petri Tyrkk|)
- Subject: Re: Blue Sky
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.125005.4984@nntp.hut.fi>
- Sender: Juha-Petri Tyrkko
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- Reply-To: jtyrkko@vipunen.hut.fi (Juha-Petri Tyrkk|)
- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology
- References: <1099@kepler1.rentec.com> <BrrMJB.Brv@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 12:50:05 GMT
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- In article <BrrMJB.Brv@acsu.buffalo.edu> Matthew J. Bernhardt writes:
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- > On Mars, the atmosphere is different, and acts to produce a pink
- > sky.
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- I remember having heard that if there was not so much red dust in the
- Martian atmosphere, Martian sky would be blue, too, looking about the
- same as Earth sky at the altitude of 30 or 35 kilometers.
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- Are there any gases that would scatter long light waves more than the
- short ones?
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- Juha-Petri Tyrkko
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- jtyrkko@vipunen.hut.fi
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