Physics
To an astronaut in a space-ship, the earth appears —
- white
- red
- blue
- black
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blue
Reason — When an astronaut goes above the atmosphere of the earth in a rocket, he sees the sky black, but to him the earth appears blue due to the blue colour of sunlight scattered by the earth's atmosphere reaching him.
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