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The color of pink clouds

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Pink clouds often appear during sunrise or sunset, when the sun's rays refract through the atmosphere and interact with the water vapor and dust particles. This interaction causes the shorter wavelengths of light (blue and violet) to scatter more than the longer wavelengths (red, orange, and yellow), resulting in the sky appearing pink. The color is due to a phenomenon known as Rayleigh scattering.

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