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Why is it blue?

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“The colors come from the fact that the very fine dust is the right size so that blue light penetrates the atmosphere slightly more efficiently,” said Mark Lemmon of Texas A&M University, College Station, a science team member of the Curiosity rover mission. “When the blue light scatters off the dust, it stays closer to the direction of the Sun than light of other colors does. The rest of the sky is yellow to orange, as yellow and red light scatter all over the sky instead of being absorbed or staying close to the Sun.”

src https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/925/what-does-a-sunrise-sunset-look-like-on-mars/

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