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Why doesnt all of the suns energy make it to the earths surface?
Wiki User
∙ 11y ago
-- Almost all of it misses the Earth, because the Earth is such a small target.
-- A substantial amount of the tiny fraction that does score a direct hit on
the Earth is absorbed by the atmosphere.
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∙ 11y ago
Wiki User
∙ 12y agoFor the same reason that most of the water that comes out of a lawn sprinkler
never makes it to a single blade of grass.
The sun's energy radiates out from the sun in all directions ... up, down, and all around it.
The earth is in only one direction from the sun, and is tiny compared to it.
(Seen from the sun, the earth appears the same size as a dime coin looks to you
from about 700-ft away.)
So most of the sun's radiation goes off in other directions, and even if it starts out
in roughly the right direction, it completely misses the earth and just keeps going.
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