A team led by the Alfred Wegener Institute puts forward a possible explanation for the rise in global mean temperature: our planet has become ... the lowest planetary albedo," says co-author ...

The albedo of the asteroid not only tells us about the composition ... the window for sending a spacecraft to try and divert it away from our planet, as successfully demonstrated by NASA’s Dart ...

The scientists scoured NASA satellite data, weather data and climate models and found the decline in low clouds reduced the planet’s albedo to record lows last year. Areas including parts of the ...

Rising temperatures are fueled, in part, by declining cloud cover — which could be a potential climate feedback loop.

The powdery snow that skiers and snowboarders love, especially on crystal clear days, plays a big role in how much your skin will burn — not the elevation.

A study led by researchers from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) has used a novel approach to unravel the ...

The idea of flying satellites in "very" low-Earth orbit is not new. Dating back to the dawn of the space age in the late 1950s, the first US spy satellites, as part of the Corona program, orbited the ...

Irradiation arriving at the rear side of bifacial modules is mainly determined by albedo, which is the ratio between downward irradiation reaching the ground and the upwelling irradiation ...

The amount of radiation reflected is known as albedo. Having lots of fresh snow increases albedo because the Sun penetrates into the powder, reflecting off the small, newly fallen crystals.