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Sunset colors are a result ofscattering by air molecules and small particles in the atmosphere. The scattering is wavelength-dependent; shorter wavelengths (violet and blue) are scattered out of the sun beam more strongly than are longer wavelengths (orange and red)
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Sunsets on other planets appear different because of the differences in the distance from the planet to the sun and in different atmospheric compositions.
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Its time to get up
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Because Mars is farther from the Sun than the Earth is, the Sun appears only about two-thirds the size that it appears in a sunset seen from the Earth
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Sunrises and birds are going to work.