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What makes mountains appear purple?


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This is to do with light and the atmosphere.

The way the rays of light strike the mountains at a greater height than us, then reflect and reach our eyes below the height of mountains, coupled with the air inbetween, leads to them looking purple, in a similar way to the process with different wavelength light makes the sky look blue on a sunny day.
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