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- Why Is the Sky Blue? | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids
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 Closer to the horizon, the sky fades to a lighter blue or white
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explore Why Does the Sun Burn Us? explore Why Do We Care About Water on Mars? Where there are signs of water, there might also be signs of life! explore Why Do We Send Robots To Space? We can send robots to explore space without having to worry so much about their safety Learn more! do What Causes the Seasons? explore Lunar Eclipses and Solar
- Earth | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids
Answer your questions: What is the atmosphere? How much water is on Earth? Why is the sky blue? How far away is the Moon?
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play Why Is the Sky Blue? explore Make a Cloud Mobile! do DSN Uplink-Downlink: A DSN Game Help the big antennas gather data from the spacecraft play NASA Space Voyagers: The Game In this strategy card game, build a spacecraft that can explore destinations throughout our solar system This link takes you away from NASA Space Place play Links out
- Atmosphere | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids
Atmosphere Relay: A Laser-Based Space play Exosphere explore Thermosphere explore Ionosphere explore Mesosphere explore Stratosphere explore Troposphere explore Earth's Atmosphere explore All About Earth explore Glossary explore Why Is the Sky Blue? explore How Do Hurricanes Form? explore What Is El Niño? do Get your Gummy Greenhouse Gases
- The Greenhouse Effect | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids
Here is why: If the atmosphere contains too much of these gases, the whole Earth becomes a hotter and hotter greenhouse The atmosphere holds onto too much of the heat at night instead of letting it escape into space
- What Is a Volcano? | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids
There are three reasons why magma might rise and cause eruptions onto Earth’s surface Volcanoes on Earth form from rising magma Magma rises in three different ways Magma can rise when pieces of Earth's crust called tectonic plates slowly move away from each other The magma rises up to fill in the space
- Make a Star Finder | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids
Because they are so far away, the shapes and positions of the constellations in Earth's sky change very, very slowly During one human lifetime, they change hardly at all
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