Submitted by SurprisedPotato t3_10utol4 in askscience
EverlastingM t1_j7fyhq0 wrote
Reply to comment by -Raskyl in Why are green and red laser pointers so cheap and available, but yellow ones not so much? by SurprisedPotato
Consumer lasers aren't going to be powerful or well calibrated enough for this to be an issue. The main phenomenon is Rayleigh scattering, the same thing that causes blue sky/red sunset, so red would travel farthest, and a hypothetical yellow would travel farther than green. There are some other less common factors like air pollution that could change how this plays out.
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