Blue skies Aspects Red sunsets

Shorter Longer
Distance travelled by
sunlight to reach the Earth
Sunlight is scattered by Layer of atmosphere Sunlight is scattered by
particles in a chin layer of particles particles in a thick layer of
atmosphere before reaching atmosphere before reaching
the Earth the Earth

Yellow, orange and red Scattering oflight Blue and violet lights are
lights are scattered away, scattered away, leaving the
leaving the more scattered least scattered red light to
blue light to enter our eyes enter our eyes

4 A sunset is more reddish if the atmosphere is more polluted with dust and
smoke. There will be more suspended particles to scatter the sunlight,
causing more blue and violet light to scatter away.