How is heat transfered from the sun to earth?

Answer 1

The way heat is transferred from the sun to Earth is because heat from the Sun is transferred to the Earth by a process known as Radiation. Most objects in the universe continuously radiate light off of their exposed surfaces due to their temperature. The hotter an object is, the more energy this discharge light will contain.

Answer 2

Heat from the Sun is transferred to the Earth by a process known as Radiation.

Most objects in the universe continuously radiate electromagnetic radiation (light!) off of their exposed surfaces due to their internal thermal energy (or temperature). The hotter an object is, the more energy this emitted light will contain. Although the human eye is not sensitive enough to detect the low energy light given off of by ordinary colder objects, you can see some radiation when you look at a hot stove or at pieces of wood inside of a fire (they tend to glow red or white).

In fact, the sun is one of the hottest objects around... and its thermal radiation is the reason it glows! Since Light doesn't need air (or any other medium) to travel through, it can pass right through the vacuum of space between the Sun and the Earth and hit the Earth.

When the Light radiated from the Sun hits the Earth, the Earth absorbs some of it... this absorption of the Sun's light makes the Earth hot! We can thank our lucky star that this is true, because most of the energy we have here on earth comes (directly or indirectly) from the Sun's Radiation.

Sun emits all sort of radiations from gamma rays to radio waves and energy level go on decreasing as wave length increases. So the energy absorbed in form of photons increases the temperature of the earth.

Answer 3

The way heat is transferred from the sun to Earth is because heat from the Sun is transferred to the Earth by a process known as Radiation. Most objects in the universe continuously radiate light off of their exposed surfaces due to their temperature. The hotter an object is, the more energy this discharge light will contain.

Answer 4

By radiation.

Thermal radiation (heat) is the same as any other type of radiation, except the wavelengths are much longer than those found in the visual spectrum of light, or ultra-violet, and so on.

Heat is just another form of light, or radiation. It traverses through space, just like any other type of light. And it takes approximately 8 minutes for light from the Sun to reach the Earth.

Answer 5

Its not completely sure... but some say its a method called Radiation. Is when energy transfers as electromagnet waves: it can occur in empty space.

Answer 6

radiation