Can you translate from the French, please?

Question

I wanted to find out why the sky was blue and as I was trawling I fund an asnwer in Yahoo Francais. Can you translate, please?

Le bleu du ciel est le résultat de la diffusion de la lumière solaire par l'atmosphère. Si celle-ci n'existait pas, on verrait une voûte céleste toute noire et les étoiles seraient visibles en plein jour.

La lumière blanche du Soleil est un mélange de toutes les couleurs de l'arc-en-ciel. La lumière voyage sous forme d'ondes de différentes longueurs. Chaque couleur a sa propre longueur d'onde. La lumière voyage donc en ligne droite jusqu'à ce qu'elle rencontre un obstacle qui la renvoit dans une autre direction. Quand les rayons solaires entrent dans l'atmosphère, ils rencontrent les atomes, les molécules d'air, les gouttes d'eau et la poussière dont est constitué l'atmosphère. Les molécules d'air ont la bonne dimension pour diffuser les plus courtes longueurs d'ondes de la lumière, les violet, indigo et bleu en l'occurrence; les longueurs d'ondes plus longues, telles que les rouges, ne sont à peu près pas diffusées par ces molécules d'air.

C'est donc un mélange de violet, d'indigo, de bleu, de vert et une petite fraction des autres couleurs qui étant diffusés dans tout le ciel, lui conférant ce bleu qui l'on connait bien.

Answer 1

just use babelfish:

Answer 2

Here it is:

The blue of the sky is the result of the diffusion of solar light by l' atmosphere. If this one n' did not exist, one would see a vault of heaven all black and the stars would be visible in full day. The white light of the Sun is a mixture of all the colors of l' rainbow. The light travels in form d' waves various lengths. Each color has its own length d' wave. The light thus travels in straight line jusqu' with this qu' it meets an obstacle which it renvoit in another direction. When the solar rays enter l' atmosphere, they meet the atoms, the molecules d' air, the drops d' water and the dust of which l' is made up; atmosphere. The molecules d' air have good dimension to diffuse the shortest lengths d' waves of the light, purple the, indigo ones and blue in l' occurrence; the lengths d' longer waves, such as the reds, are about not diffused by these molecules d' air. C' is thus a mixture of purple, d' indigo, of blue, green and a small fraction of the other colors which being diffused in all the sky, conferring this blue to him which l' one knows well.

Answer 3

The blue of thesky is the result of the diffusion of sunlight by the atmosphere.  If it (the atmosphere) didn't exist, we would see a completely black sky ('celestial vault' - I love French it's so descriptive!), and the stars would be visible during the day.

The white light from the sun is a mixture of all the colours of the rainbow.  Light travels in the form of waves of varying lengths.  Each colour has it's own wavelength.  Light therefore travels in a straight line until it meets an obstacle which sends it in another direction.  When the sun's rays enter the atmosphere they meet atoms, air molecules, drops of water and the dust which all make up the atmosphere.  The air molecules are the right size to diffuse the shorter wavelengths of light, the violet, indigo and blue to be specific; the longer wavelengths, such as red, are barely diffused at all by the air molecules.  Therefore it is a mix of violet, indigo, blue, green and a tiny fraction of the other colours which are diffused across the sky, giving it the blue colour which we know so well.

Thanks for that - I've learned something new today!