Sentences with phrase «much sunlight hits»

Because Lidar lets researchers see a 3 - D version of a city, down to an individual tree or building, it can also figure out how much sunlight hits an area — and how likely a food crop could flourish in that spot.

Without much sunlight hitting this part of the hotel at key parts of the day, our whole room was a bit dark.

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According to the report, sulfate and other aerosols reflect sunlight and reduce the amount of solar energy hitting Earth's surface by as much as 15 %.

As the Arctic sea ice melts, however, and the incoming sunlight hits the much darker open water, only 6 percent is reflected back into space and 94 percent is converted into heat.

And Mars thin atmosphere allows more sunlight to hit the surface, and because of Earth comparatively very thick atmosphere, that's why I said that with only visible light it would as cold or much colder than Mars.

Because the glaciers are at much lower latitudes at a glacial maximun (south of the Great Lakes for example), incoming sunlight is hitting them at a much steeper angle.