Checking the Weather of Alien Planets
Optics & Photonics Focus
Volume 2 Story 4 - 3/9/2008

Measured cloud distribution of the earth

From outer space, clouds appear brighter than land and oceans because they reflect more light. Since the clouds are unevenly distributed in an earth-like planet, fluctuations in its brightness are expected. Picture courtesy: NASA.
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Measured cloud distribution of the earth. From outer space, clouds appear brighter than land and oceans because they reflect more light. Since the clouds are unevenly distributed in an earth-like planet, fluctuations in its brightness are expected.