Types of Scattering

Mie scattering is the primary method of sizing single sonoluminescing bubbles of air in water and is valid for cavities in materials, as well as particles in materials, as long as the surrounding material is essentially non-absorbing.

due to Rayleigh Scatter. Photo taken from the moon's surface shows the Earth rising (right).

Rayleigh scattering (pronounced / ˈ r eɪ l i / RAY-lee), named after the British physicist Lord Rayleigh (John William Strutt), is the (dominantly) elastic scattering of light or other electromagnetic radiation by particles much smaller than the wavelength of the radiation.