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Snowball Earth brightness
The Earth likely froze over almost completely about 700 million years ago. This increased its albedo significantly, and I wonder if that would have a considerable effect on its apparent magnitude from ...
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Is albedo ever greater than unity? How is it calculated for various surface diffusivities and specular reflection? [duplicate]
I'm trying to understand how albedo would be calculated for a body with well-characterized surface reflectance properties, so that it's absolute magnitude could be defined. One could argue that this ...
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