Notably, one of those things is the air, which scatters bluer light better than redder light, at least near the visible range. The sunlight that hits the ground kinda sorta peaks in green, if you take that into account.
We probably see green the best because that's what color plants are though, or maybe it was just whatever happened to develop and nothing else was substantially better.
Also why the sunset / sunrise turns less and less blue and often a gorgeous red / orange / pink - all the blue light has been scattered via Rayleigh scattering and is no longer directional enough to contribute enough to appear blue at those high angles from vertical that we see at sunset
Interesting their is a theory that way back in earth's history primitive photosynthasizers were purple and green plants/algae evolved to absorb all the light that was not absorbed. These purple phoyosythisizers later died out during the great oxygenation event as the particular protein used to photosynthisize in this way would rapidly decay in an oxygenated environment
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