It goes back into space.
Some is absorbed by the earths air water and soil. The remainder is reflected.
Neither, they ARE energy.
why
What happens to Solar Energy is that some of it gets absorbed into air, land and water while the rest gets reflected back to space.
45%
absorbed
When a wave is partially reflected at a boundary, some of the energy is transmitted into the new medium while the remaining energy is reflected back. This results in a division of energy between the reflected and transmitted waves.
it goes into the inner core.
Roughly 70% of the sun's energy is absorbed by the Earth's surface. The rest is reflected back into space or absorbed by the atmosphere.
The Suns rays reflect of the Earth, then off the outer shell of the atmosphere, temporarily trapping sunlight and heat.
5%
Most of it is reflected back into space.