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If Rayleigh scattering is responsible for the sky being blue, why is the atmosphere as seen from space still blue?

Rayleigh scattering isn't absorption, so it would seem to me that the "non-blue" photons still survived. If down on Earth we get mostly blue light, where did the other wavelengths go, if not to space?

The only idea I have is that they get scattered perpendicularly up, so we can't really see the effect since we're looking straight down on Earth (and this see the ground mostly).
gpt
They get scattered at much lower angles. In particular, they make the sun look yellow/orange/red when it is actually white, because the blue gets scattered away (covering the rest of the sky) and the reddish hues do not.

The non blue photons *do* survive, but because they didn't get scattered at large angles they don't deviate much from their straight-line path, i.e. you only see them when you're basically looking in the direction of the sun. The red light does make it to the surface (*better* than the blue light if anything) but it doesn't do so *from all directions in the sky*.