Curious Kids: is water blue or is it just reflecting off the sky?
- Written by Justin Peter, Climate Scientist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
The sea is blue because of the way water absorbs light, the way particles in the water scatter light, and also because some of the blue light from the sky is reflected.Flickr/Fiona Paton, CC BY-SA
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