Tuesday, 5 January 2016

visible light - What percentage of sunlight isn't scattered by air molecules?


The sky looks blue because of scattered photons. Our Sun looks often yellow because the photons we receive in ours eyes 'are' yellow. Now is the yellow light we receive in our eyes when looking straight into the sun (I know it is not recommendable) coming straight from the sun? If so what percentage of sun rays goes straight into our eyes and what percentage is scattered?




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