Heading for the dark side? How Earth has 'dimmed' by 0.5% since 2017 when ...
Heading for the dark side? How Earth has 'dimmed' by 0.5% since 2017 when viewed from space Researchers have found that Earth is he equivalent of 0.5 per cent less ‘shiny’ It is not a difference anyone walking on Earth could notice, or even an astronaut But the reduction in ‘Earthshine’ or albedo is due to a recent loss of clouds
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Viewed from space, the ‘pale blue dot’ we know as Earth has dimmed since 2017, scientists have discovered.
Researchers who have been steadily tracking our planet say it has lost brightness by the equivalent of half-a-watt per square metre, making it the equivalent of 0.5 per cent less ‘shiny’ since 2017.
It is not a difference anyone walking on Earth could notice, or even an astronaut in space, unless they had a specialist telescope.
