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Albedo in Podcasts

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A scientific concept measuring how reflective a surface is, expressed as a value between 0 and 1.

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StarTalk Radio
Things You Thought You Knew – Is Everything Light?

But if you thought about albedo from the beginning, you'd realize that the human species fully populates the entire spectrum, the entire range of albedos.

StarTalk Radio
Things You Thought You Knew – Is Everything Light?

have an albedo, you just get to have an albedo.

StarTalk Radio
Things You Thought You Knew – Is Everything Light?

So let's see how albedo affects us.

StarTalk Radio
Things You Thought You Knew – Is Everything Light?

No, but also stars have basically zero albedo, but no one thinks about it that way because they are generating light of their own.

StarTalk Radio
Things You Thought You Knew – Is Everything Light?

And an albedo of zero means 100% of the light energy gets absorbed and nothing gets reflected back.

StarTalk Radio
Things You Thought You Knew – Is Everything Light?

An albedo of 100% is?

StarTalk Radio
Things You Thought You Knew – Is Everything Light?

So an albedo of 0.5, that means half the light that hits it gets reflected.