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What type of radiation is scattered to produce the blue color of cloud-free skies?

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The answer is Solar radiation. This is scattered to produce the blue color of cloud-free skies. A clear cloudless day-time sky is blue because molecules in the air scatter blue light from the sun more than they scatter red light.
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