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- From: parson_r@cubldr.colorado.edu (Robert Parson)
- Subject: Re: Why is the sky blue?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.133121.1@cubldr.colorado.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 20:31:21 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec14.171927.1@stsci.edu>, zellner@stsci.edu writes:
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- [Excellent exposition of the Rayleigh Scattering mechanism deleted]
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- In addition to this, molecular oxygen absorbs red light. It's a weak
- transition (magnetic dipole) but there's enough O2 overhead to compensate.
- I vaguely remember reading that about 20% of the blue sky color is due to
- this (I forget precisely what that figure is supposed to represent) with
- the remaining 80% being due to Rayleigh scattering.
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- Robert
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