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What percentage of incoming sunlight is reflectedby clouds dust and gases in the atmosphere?
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In what scenario is the blue component of incoming sunlight is scattered much more than any other color component?
When the sky is high in the sky, the blue component of incoming sunlight is scattered much more than any other color component. Do your home work next time :D
How would a lunar eclipse look if Earth had no atmosphere?
We would not get the same redness that we do from sunlight shining through our atmosphere.
What percentage of sunlight does Helsinki on July 1?
It is 75%
Where is the sun's incoming solar radiation the strongest?
The strongest is in the tropics, where the sunlight is nearly perpendicular to the surface and about the same duration year-round.
Does the moon gets more light from the sun than the earth does?
Since the moon does not have an atmosphere, the sunlight that reaches the surface of the moon is more intense than the sunlight that reaches the surface of the Earth after passing through the Earth's atmosphere.
How does the atmosphere reflect energy?
Some sunlight is absorbed or reflected by the atmosphere before it can reach the surfaces.
What percentage of earth is dark?
Slightly less than 50%. Without an atmosphere, it would be 50% but diffraction of sunlight in the earth's atmosphere means that sunlight "wraps around" the termonator - giving us dusk and twilight. These are periods when it is light even though the sun is not visible.
What layer of the atmosphere is first struck by sunlight?
The exosphere is the layer of the atmosphere first struck by sunlight
What causes sunlight to pass through the upper atmosphere?
Sunlight can pass through atmosphere. But not the part containing UV rays.
What heats the lower atmosphere?
The lower atmosphere is heated by the ground, which is heated by sunlight.
How does ice affect incoming sunlight?
clean ice reflects sunlight back into space and prevents heat buidup on ice, dirty ice has the opposite affect
A rainbow forms when sunlight shines on water in what?
A rainbow forms when sunlight shines on water in the atmosphere.
What do you need in atmosphere to sustain life?
oxygen and sunlight
What was the trigger that caused reactions to occur in the atmosphere?
sunlight
What single feature is primarily responsible for the variation of climate in different parts of the world?
The angle of incoming sunlight
Why it is cold above the atmosphere?
It is not necessarily cold above the atmosphere. In direct sunlight, it can be quite hot.
what happens to sunlight as it enters the earth's atmosphere?
Sunlight experiences some degree of scattering (technically, Rayleigh Scattering) as it passes through the atmosphere, which causes the sky to appear blue and the sunlight to appear yellow. Some of the sunlight encounters clouds, while some reaches the ground.
