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Re: Blueness

#1212
From: Michael P Urban
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:43
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In article <C1JCBF.756@world.std.com> moroney@world.std.com (Michael Moroney) writes:
>Water isn't blue. The ocean appears blue because it reflects the sky.
>(look at it on a stormy day, it's gray)
>

Um, are you saying that when the Earth is viewed from space, the
oceans look dark blue because they reflect the sky?  I am having
trouble visualizing this process.



	Mike Urban

	urban@cobra.jpl.nasa.gov
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From: urban@sideshow.jpl.nasa.gov (Michael P Urban)
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Subject: Re: Blueness
Date: 28 Jan 1993 15:43:12 GMT
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