Blind me. Where are my shades? Sometimes I can hardly see where I am going. The glare from sunlight bouncing off the oceans and clouds, the ice and snow is particularly blinding. Nearly a third of the sunlight is being reflected back into space. Some of it even bounces off the surface of the leaves and rocks back into space.  Of course.That explains the Earth glow I saw from the moon.

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Chapter Six - Land of the Lost Trace Gases- The Mystery of Light on Earth.        

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