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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
Why | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids 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
Play | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids 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
How Do Telescopes Work? - NASA Space Place Most telescopes, and all large telescopes, work by using curved mirrors to gather and focus light from the night sky The first telescopes focused light by using pieces of curved, clear glass, called lenses So why do we use mirrors today? Because mirrors are lighter, and they are easier than lenses to make perfectly smooth
What Is a Meteor Shower? - NASA Space Place In the case of a meteor shower, the glowing streaks may appear anywhere in the sky, but their "tails" all seem to point back to the same spot in the sky That's because all the meteors are coming at us at the same angle, and as they get closer to Earth the effect of perspective makes them seem to get farther apart