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I presume that some kind of absorption occurs when the sunset is reflected on the water, but can anyone describe this in more detail?
Why is the reflected sunset redder than the direct sunset?
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I presume that some kind of absorption occurs when the sunset is reflected on the water, but can anyone describe this in more detail?
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Next time you see this, have a set of polarizing sun glasses on hand. I suspect you will discover that the horizontally polarized lunset is redder than the vertically polarized sunset. When light makes a shallow reflection of any surface, the reflection of light polarized parallel to the surface is favored.