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- Why Is the Sky Blue? | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids
Why Is the Sky Blue? The Short Answer: Sunlight reaches Earth's atmosphere and is scattered in all directions by all the gases and particles in the air Blue light is scattered more than the other colors because it travels as shorter, smaller waves This is why we see a blue sky most of the time
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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
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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
- 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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