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It does not, the night side of the planet loses (radiates) heat away into space. However, cloud cover and the presence of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reflect some of this lost heat back to the planet surface, they act a s a blanket.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 10y agoThe earth releases heat into the atmosphere day and night. However, during the day the sun keeps as warm as well as the air, so the nights appear colder. Clouds stop some of this heat rising. This is why deserts, with no clouds, are often extremely cold at night.
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∙ 14y agoThe sun itself doesn't physically move. The earth rotates in a 24 hour span. The sun is always at the same place even if you can't see it.
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∙ 11y agoThey create a layer in atmosphere, so at night
heat cannot escape into space.
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∙ 11y agoBecause the atmosphere retains the heat which is trapped by the greenhouse gases
during the day
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Why say The atmosphere as a heat Engine?
solar radiatians pass through the earth's atmosphere and are reflected by earth's surface.but due to green house gases they are trapped back tm earth which leads for earth's temperature to rise.
Why are cloudy days cooler but cloudy nights warmer than the clear ones?
During a clear night, as heat absorbed by the earth during the day seeps out, the atmosphere allows the heat to pass through. During a cloudy night, however, the clouds catch and retain the heat in the atmosphere.Clouds trap heat being reflected from the earthThe heat radiation lost from the earth gets reflected by the clouds back to the earth, warming it. Whereas on a clear night it just escapes into space.
How does radiation directed at the Earth fail to reach the surface?
Some of it is reflected back into space. Some of it is absorbed by the atmosphere. Some of it is scattered by the atmosphere.
Why does it get freezing cold on the planet Mercury at night?
There is no atmosphere to retain the heat that Mercury receives from the Sun, so it is all lost from the night side, radiated back into space. The same surface that reaches over 400 °C in the sun then plummets to -184 °C in a night that lasts 88 Earth days. The same situation occurs on the Earth's moon, where the temperature is scorching in the Sun and icy on the part that is in darkness.
What is the name of the natural cycle in which water travels from the earth to the atmosphere and back again?
Answer :Water is continuously moving form the Earth's surface into the air, and from the air back onto the Earth's surface. This continuous movement of water is called the hydrologic cycle, or water cycle.
How can water in the atmosphere cycle back to the surface of the Earth?
Water in the atmosphere precipitates. And in this manner it returns back to earth's surface.
Why is the moon cold during the night?
Unlike the Earth, the moon had no atmosphere to trap in the solar heat. This heat dissipates quickly back out into space after sunset.
What is the movement of water from earth to the atmosphere and back to earth?
Water cycle
What layer of the earth's atmosphere where the radio communication are reflected back to the earth?
I believe it is the Ionosphere.
Does air pollution effect the earth's atmosphere?
Once it reaches the atmosphere, the rain will become acid rain and fall back down to the earth
What is the ideal radiation budget?
Radiation budget is Earth's atmosphere. The Earth's atmosphere has more solar energy than it radiates back to space.
The movement of water from the atmosphere to the earth and back to the atmosphere again is the hydrosphere cycle?
False. Its the Water cycle.
How does the eaths rotation cause temperature differences during day and night?
Because the earth didn't have an atmosphere back then That answer is also right but their is another slip to it, the slip to it is that, their is a seasonal change in the atmosphere and if they didn't have a satellite the seasons wouldn't change, so that is also why we have satellites for electricity and the seasons...!
What happens to most of the sunlight that reaches Earth?
About 50% is absorbed by Earth's surface, about 25% is reflected by clouds, dust, and gases in the atmosphere, about 20% is absorbed by gases and particles in the atmosphere and about 5% is reflected by the surface back into the atmosphere. Also some absorbed energy is radiated back into the atmosphere.
Why is it colder at night than day?
The sun is no longer heating the surface, so instead of being warmed by its radiation, the surface of the Earth emits longwave radiation of its own (heat) back into the atmosphere. This allows the surface to cool.
The movement of water from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back again?
Watercycle
What process release water back into the atmosphere?
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