For example, what is the reason why greenhouse gases reflect heat from the Earth back to Earth, but not heat from the Sun back to the space?
From what I understand, it has something to do with radiation and emitted waves, but what exactly makes the difference?
In: Planetary Science
All forms of light come in, not just infrared When the other light is absorbed it is given off at a later time as infrared light, it’s this excess infrared light that gets reflected back. When the light is absorbed depending on its energy will give back more than 1 ray of infrared for every ray of light of a higher energy.
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