As a matter of fact, the nitrogen makes sky blue, but the oxygen makes it green. Had been more oxygen than nitrogen in our atmosphere, they sky would have been green, all else equal.
You can also say, that this blue color is the color of 20000 K, on the Wein’s diagram. Which is the temperature (kinetic energy) of the nitrogen atom hit by an UV photon of the appropriate energy to be absorbed.
And our planet in fact loses water by the hydrogen escaping. 50 kilogram per second.
Well, this I think I know without Googling, You may refine this by—Googling it.
Is this actually true? Do you have a source? I have tried Googling for it.
My understanding is that the sky’s blue color was caused by Rayleigh scattering. This scattering is higher for shorter wavelengths. There’s no broad peak in scattering associated with nitrogen absorption lines (which I imagine would be very narrowband, rather than broadband).
Wikipedia’s article on Rayleigh scatting mentions oxygen twice but makes no reference to your theory.
As a matter of fact, the nitrogen makes sky blue, but the oxygen makes it green. Had been more oxygen than nitrogen in our atmosphere, they sky would have been green, all else equal.
You can also say, that this blue color is the color of 20000 K, on the Wein’s diagram. Which is the temperature (kinetic energy) of the nitrogen atom hit by an UV photon of the appropriate energy to be absorbed.
And our planet in fact loses water by the hydrogen escaping. 50 kilogram per second.
Well, this I think I know without Googling, You may refine this by—Googling it.
Is this actually true? Do you have a source? I have tried Googling for it.
My understanding is that the sky’s blue color was caused by Rayleigh scattering. This scattering is higher for shorter wavelengths. There’s no broad peak in scattering associated with nitrogen absorption lines (which I imagine would be very narrowband, rather than broadband).
Wikipedia’s article on Rayleigh scatting mentions oxygen twice but makes no reference to your theory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleigh_scattering