Sentences with phrase «radiation from the sun easily»

Visible and near - visible radiation from the sun easily gets through, but thermal radiation from the surface can't easily get back out.

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One suggestion he came up with was that the energy coming in from the sun in the form of visible and ultra-violet light (known back then as «luminous heat») was easily able to pass through Earth's atmosphere and heat up the planet's surface, but that the «non-luminous heat» (now known as infra - red radiation) then emitted by the Earth's surface could not make it back in the opposite direction quite so readily.