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Stars have no albedo, because they give off their own light, and albedo is a measure of reflected light. Even with such a low albedo of 0.07 the moon's rocks still reflect a lot more sunlight than does the adjacent empty space. The Earth is thus capturing a flux of:





1400 * 0.07 * (pi * R^2) / (2 * pi * d^2)



Or roughly:



1400 * (1 / 1400000)



In other words, moonlight is 1400000 times fainter than sunlight.


 


Did u appear for NUAA ???..this was the question der ..qu no 5 . ...I think I am right abt this . I never miss a question on albedo flux .


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