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Since some objects absorb more energy than others, solar radiation is partially and unequally reflected by different objects. The eye and photographic film register only reflected radiation; the remainder of the solar energy is absorbed by objects, atmospheric gases, and/or refracted by the upper atmospheric boundary and/or diffracted by the atmosphere itself.
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© 1974 D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland
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Pouquet, J. (1974). The Visible and Near Infrared of the Electromagnetic Spectrum. In: Earth Sciences in the Age of the Satellite. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2188-3_3
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