Why is the sky, not green, the sky is blue and the sun is yellow?
Because the sun’s rays have all the colors in them when they hit the atmosphere it refracts the colors we see. *** g94 12/22 pp. 3-5 Our Precious Atmosphere *** Our Precious Atmosphere ON May 4, 1961, Malcolm Ross and Vic Prather were carried aloft to an altitude of 21.5 miles [34.6 km]. At the time, setting a new record did not mean much to Ross. What impressed him was the view as he carefully raised a blind and looked out of the gondola for the first time. The scene as we topped 100,000 feet [30,500 m], he recalls, was utterly magnificent. Ross was amazed by the colors that mark different layers of the atmosphere. First, there is the bright and whitish-blue of the troposphere, which extends about ten miles [16 km] above the earth. Then the deep blue stratosphere gets darker and darker until finally there is the blackness of space. In silent awe we contemplated the supernal loveliness of the atmosphere, Ross wrote in National Geographic. Indeed, our lovely atmosphere is worth contempl
