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What percentage of the total incoming radiation to the Earth reaches the ground?

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Answer: Consequently 22.5 percent of incoming solar radiation goes directly to the surface of the Earth and is absorbed. Transfer of radiation through a planet's atmosphere. A planet and its atmosphere, in our solar system, can radiate back to space only as much energy as it absorbs from incoming solar radiation.

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