Friday, June 12, 2015

atmosphere, or: why is the sky blue?

For sky friday: a sky memory from a flight that brought a view of the shoreline of Spain.
Here's "continent's end" and the start of waterworld:



And in addition, a sky photo that turned out blurred, but with some photo editing now carries this feeling of flying high above through the atmosphere into the blue:



Which leads to that interersting question again: why exaclty is the sky blue?
Nasa has the answer, here's a short version: "Sunlight reaches Earth's atmosphere and is scattered in all directions by all the gases and particles in the air. Blue light is scattered in all directions by the tiny molecules of air in Earth's atmosphere. Blue is scattered more than other colors because it travels as shorter, smaller waves. This is why we see a blue sky most of the time."
More about it, here:  nasa/sky

More skies from around the world: skywatch friday

5 comments:

Kayni said...

It's been three years since I visited Spain, beautiful country and food is spectacular. I used to love flying, but these days, I get worried specially with turbulence.

Beautiful photos!

Latane Barton said...

my great grandson is always asking questions. One is 'why is the sky blue?' It just is... and it's beautiful.

Spare Parts and Pics said...

Nice window seat shots!!

Lina Gustina said...

Breath taking shots. Thanks for the info.
www.womenandperspectives.com/2015/06/unique-clouds.html

Dorothee said...

Thanks for the lovely feedback! Yes, that was a lucky window seat for the flight. Glad you enjoyed the blue moment.