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What kind of radiation passes through the atmosphere and reaches the earths surface?
Most of the visible light and some of the ultraviolet and infrared radiation from the sun pass through the atmosphere and reach the Earth's surface. Other forms of radiation, such as gamma rays and X-rays, are mostly absorbed by the atmosphere and do not reach the surface.
What penetrates the earth's atmosphere to reach the surface?
Electromagnetic radiation from the sun, most in the form of visible light.
Before the suns ray can reach earth surface they have topass through the?
Earth's atmosphere, which consists of different layers such as the troposphere, stratosphere, and mesosphere. As sunlight passes through these layers, it is filtered and scattered, with some of the light being absorbed by gases and particles in the atmosphere. This process can affect the color and intensity of the sunlight reaching the Earth's surface.
How does solar radiation reach the surface of the earth?
Solar radiation reaches the surface of the Earth through the process of electromagnetic radiation emitted by the Sun. This radiation travels through space and reaches Earth's atmosphere, where it penetrates and warms the surface of the planet. The atmosphere helps block harmful radiation while allowing sunlight to reach the surface.
What happens to most of the meteors that enter the atmosphere?
Most meteors burn up in the Earth's atmosphere due to friction, creating bright streaks of light known as shooting stars. Only a small fraction of meteors survive the journey and reach the Earth's surface as meteorites.
Why does the moon look orange in an eclipse?
During a lunar eclipse, the Earth blocks direct sunlight from reaching the moon. However, some sunlight still reaches the moon after passing through Earth's atmosphere. The Earth's atmosphere scatters shorter-wavelength blue and green light, allowing longer-wavelength red and orange light to reach the moon, giving it an orange hue during an eclipse.
What kind of radiation passes through the atmosphere and reaches the earths surface?
Most of the visible light and some of the ultraviolet and infrared radiation from the sun pass through the atmosphere and reach the Earth's surface. Other forms of radiation, such as gamma rays and X-rays, are mostly absorbed by the atmosphere and do not reach the surface.
Why does the moon become red during some lunar eclipses?
It's all to do with the wavelength of light and the density of the Earth's atmosphere. During a lunar eclipse, some light from the Sun is refracted through the Earth's atmosphere, which allows it to bend around the Earth and reach the Moon. The atmosphere is a well-known filter of blue light (this is why the sky is blue); only long wavelengths can pass through the atmosphere at the angle between the Earth, Sun and Moon, the others get trapped in the atmosphere. Therefore, the Moon is only exposed to red light. If the atmosphere was a different density then the Moon would appear a different colour.
What penetrates the earth's atmosphere to reach the surface?
Electromagnetic radiation from the sun, most in the form of visible light.
Before the suns ray can reach earth surface they have topass through the?
Earth's atmosphere, which consists of different layers such as the troposphere, stratosphere, and mesosphere. As sunlight passes through these layers, it is filtered and scattered, with some of the light being absorbed by gases and particles in the atmosphere. This process can affect the color and intensity of the sunlight reaching the Earth's surface.
Can UV light from stars reach through your atmosphere?
Yes, most of the UV radiation from stars is blocked by Earth's atmosphere. However, some UV light does reach the surface, which is why we still receive UV radiation from the Sun. This is why we need protection like sunscreen to prevent damage from UV radiation.
How long will it take the get the suns heat to earth?
It will take 8 minutes for the light from the sun to reach Earth. The actual heat of the sun does not reach all the way out to Earth. The warmth on Earth comes from the conversion of light energy to heat energy.
Earth's atmosphere is mostly transparent to which forms of light energy?
Earth's atmosphere is mostly transparent to visible light, radio waves, and some portions of the infrared and ultraviolet spectra. This allows these forms of light energy to reach the surface of the Earth relatively unimpeded.
Can infrared light get through Earth's atmosphere?
Yes, some of it can. Infrared radiation is trapped by greenhouse gases, but not all of it is trapped. These gases only trap radiation in very specific parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, so there are "windows" where it can escape.
If the earth is opaque how does the sunlight enter the earth?
Sunlight enters the Earth's atmosphere because it is not completely opaque. The atmosphere is transparent to visible light, allowing sunlight to pass through and reach the surface. Once sunlight reaches the surface, it can be absorbed, reflected, or scattered by various surfaces and materials on Earth.
How does the energy from the sun reach the earth?
Energy from the sun reaches the Earth through electromagnetic radiation, primarily in the form of visible light. This light travels through the vacuum of space and reaches the Earth's atmosphere, where it is absorbed and converted into heat energy.
Does light travel through space?
Of course it travels.Then how do you expect light to reach the earth from he sun!
