If the Sun is able to keep Earth warm while being millions of miles away, shouldn’t it get warmer and warmer the closer you get to it (like when you go to space)? Like how it would get warmer if you were to approach a burning house for example?
In: Planetary Science
The sun heats the ground, and the ground heats the air.
Space has neither, so the light just passes through.
If a photon does hit a stray gas or dust particle, it will quickly be remitted as a lower frequency photon.
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