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What happens to energy from the sun as it travels

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All of the energy from the Sun that reaches the Earth arrives as solar radiation, part of a large collection of energy called the electromagnetic radiation spectrum. Solar radiation includes visible light, ultraviolet light, infrared, radio waves, X-rays, and gamma rays. Radiation is one way to transfer heat.
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Well, it's emitted from the sun as ultraviolet energy but when it reaches earth not all of it stays there. Some of it gets reflected back into space, some of it is absorbed by the earth's atmosphere, and some by the earth itself, it's surface.

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