The ocean appears blue from the space because?

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Blue light gets scattered the most in the atmosphere

Ultraviolet radiation is absorbed in the atmosphere.

Green light gets scattered more than lights of the other colours by the atmosphere

Light of all other colours is scattered more than the violet and blue colour lights by the atmosphere

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The ocean appears blue from the sky because of the scattering of the blue light.
When the reflection of rays of light from the ocean's surface passes through the earth's atmosphere, then the scattering of different colours takes place. Violet and blue colours have short wavelengths. Colours having short wavelengths are scattered most, and due to this scattering of light, the ocean appears blue from above.

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