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The Earth emits thermal radiation of a much lower intensity in the infrared rather than visible region . The wavelength of infrared rays is around 10^-6 meter.
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How do visible light and infrared energy warm earth?
The Earth and atmosphere absorb the visible and infrared energy and this warms the earth.
Which kind of light rays causes the earth to get the warmest?
Infrared Heat.
What makes it possible to see the Moon from Earth?
to use ur eyes wow really -.-..... Light emitted by the Sun is reflected to Earth by the Moon's surface.
How is thermal energy transfered in Earth?
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Is it important that there is a balanced exchange of thermal energy between the Sun and the Earth?
yes
Does the sun or earth emit light with higher energy?
Only the sun emits radiation in the wavelengths of visible light, which is considerably higher energy than infrared emitted by Earth.
One reason that infrared wavelengths are difficult to study is that?
most infrared wavelengths are absorbed by Earth's atmosphere
How long are the wavelengths of radiation emitted by Earth are?
Longer than those emitted by the Sun
Can infrared be generated on earth?
Infrared radiation is emitted by almost everything on Earth because almost everything is a temperature that will emit at that wavelength. Even you are emitting in the infrared.
In what form is radiant energy reflected back into space?
Energy is re-radiated by the Earth as infrared (thermal) radiation.
The wavelengths of radiation emitted by Earth are?
they are longer than those emitted by the sun.
The Earth is warmed by solar energy. How is this energy transferred from the sun to the Earth?
By radiation: mainly in the infrared wavelengths.
Thermal radiation refers to waves that travel through the earth?
is emitted from objects on earth by electromagnetic waves (infrared rays) of low energy content (therefore, containing less heat) due to the temperature (internal energy) of the object.
Does the radiation emitted by earth's surface have longer or shorter wavelengths compared to solar radiation?
because they do not go to the same direction e.g the short-wave radiation heats the earth and the long-wave radiation heats the atmosphere.
What kind of thermal radiation does the Earth emit?
Infrared light+++The question answers itself: heat, (Heat is thermal by definition.)
What is thermal infrared imagery?
Electromagnetic radiation in the range 5.6micrometre to 1.0 cm is called thermal infrared range.Green house gases absorb and emit radiation within this range.Green house gases in the earth's atmosphere are water vapour,carbon dioxide,methane,nitrous oxide and ozone
What are greenhouse gases referred to?
The greenhouse effect refers to the change in the thermal equilibrium temperature of a planet or moon by the presence of an atmosphere containing gas that absorbs and emits infrared radiation. Greenhouse gases, which include water vapor, carbon dioxide and methane, warm the atmosphere by efficiently absorbing thermal infrared radiation emitted by the Earth's surface, by the atmosphere itself, and by clouds. As a result of its warmth, the atmosphere also radiates thermal infrared in all directions, including downward to the Earth's surface. Thus, greenhouse gases trap heat within the surface-troposphere system.
