Images & Animations
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Credit
Susan Gonnelli, NASA TV GSFC
The CERES sensors are designed to help scientists understand the fate of sunlight after it enters the Earth's environment. Some sunlight is reflected by clouds or the surface back up into space, while some is absorbed and then stored as heat. Subsequently, this energy is emitted as longwave radiation, much of which gets trapped in the Earth's atmosphere by clouds and greenhouse gases.
Metadata
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Sensor
Terra/CERES -
Visualization Date
1999-12-07
