Sentences with phrase «scattering of ultraviolet light»

Satellites can detect volcanic ash by observing the scattering of ultraviolet light from the sun.

Not exact matches

But if you wait for the sunset, the sun looks red because the blue and ultraviolet light is scattered away by tiny particles.The new study suggests the objects causing the long - period dimming of Tabby's Star can be no more than a few micrometers in diameter (about one ten - thousandth of an inch).

The best possible observations of the detached layer are made in ultraviolet light because the small haze particles which populate this part of Titan's upper atmosphere scatter short wavelengths more efficiently than longer visible or infrared wavelengths.