What is solar radiation?
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rays from the sun
solar radiation is The electromagnetic radiation and particles (electrons, protons, and rarer heavy atomic nuclei) emitted by the sun.
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and a cool link from our observatory database to check out !
U.S. Solar Radiation Resource Maps:
http://rredc.nrel.gov/solar/old_data/nsr...
Solar Moniter :
http://www.solarmonitor.org/index.php...
Energy from the sun.
Solar radiation is radiant energy emitted by the sun, particularly electromagnetic energy. About half of the radiation is in the visible short-wave part of the electromagnetic spectrum. The other half is mostly in the near-infrared part, with some in the ultraviolet part of the spectrum [1]. the size of this that is not absorbed by the produces a suntan or a sunburn on people who have sunlight for extended periods of time.
Solar radiation is commonly measured with a pyranometer or pyrheliometer.
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