Tuesday, 9 August 2011

Albedo of Snow makes the night very bright!



albedo |alˈbēdō|
noun ( pl. -dos) chiefly Astronomythe proportion of the incident light or radiation that is reflected by a surface, typically that of a planet or moon.ORIGIN mid 19th cent.ecclesiastical Latin, ‘whiteness,’ from Latin albus‘white.’Taken at 11.40pm on Sunday the 24th July outside my house.