NASA: Why does the Sun Matter for Earth’s Energy Budget?

Earth's energy budget is a metaphor for the delicate equilibrium between energy received from the Sun versus energy radiated back out in to space. Research into precise details of Earth's energy budget is vital for understanding how the planet's climate may be changing, as well as variabilities in solar energy output. Missions like NASA's TSIS will help scientists keep a close watch. NASA's Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor, or TSIS-1, is a mission to measure the sun's energy input to Earth. Various satellites have captured a continuous record of this solar energy input since 1978. TSIS-1 sensors advance previous measurements, enabling scientists to study the sun's natural influence on Earth's ozone layer, atmospheric circulation, clouds, and ecosystems. These observations are essential for a scientific understanding of the effects of solar variability on the Earth system. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center manages the project. The University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) built both instruments and provides mission operations. The International Space Station carries TSIS-1.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Michael Starobin

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[ajadrew]

And we're using up all the ancient sunlight, that light that crated the oil, the coal etc....we are way out of balance looking at it like that.

[carocuno]

Create low pressures in atmosphere due to lack of atmosphere. We need more air pressure studies at different atmospheric levels. Hotter days due to sun penetrating more and colder nights due to ambient temperatures of space. Atmosphere is an insulator to regulate earths temperature. Is irrigation helping maintain atmosphere. Fire consumes atmosphere(as shown below)

[shahdissa]

Does global warming change the balance of the energy coming in to the earth and going out??

[Strblxe]

I saw a video that says NASA said there’s going to be a Internet apocalypse. That means there’s no Internet for months. 💀

[LilYeshua]

There you go

While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. - Genesis 8:22

And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail. - Hebrews 1:10-12

[AmeanAbdelfattah]

not enough subs are hitting the like button.

[rkpetry]

...just for 'curiosity sake' compare the total energy reserve inside the Earth, both infamous 'dirty' nuclear uranium and thorium, plus speculative hydrogen/deuterium-fusion,  and less-famous 'clean' nuclear recessive daughter isotopes and non spontaneous fission isotopes (tungsten and many others are so slow radioactive they were previously deemed stable)....

[AmeanAbdelfattah]

Some of that energy gets absorbed: by the oceans, the land, the atmosphere, Patricia Krentcil.

[travonerobinson]

(>=<)E=Mc2. Our Star 💫.
Signed,
SuperMan

[rache]

The sun is not 93 million miles away, and we do not live on a spinning ball.