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Originally Posted by LadyShea
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Originally Posted by peacegirl
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Originally Posted by LadyShea
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Originally Posted by peacegirl
Moreover, detecting light can give us clues about the atmosphere but it cannot provide an exact photograph from material that has absorptive properties if no wavelength is being "reflected" (or bouncing off and traveling).
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Spectral analysis isn't meant to create photographic images. It's meant to determine which light wavelengths are absorbed, reflected, or transmitted by any given substance or object as that in turn tells us about the composition of that substance or object.
And yes, light wavelengths are reflected as in bounced off and traveling, because that is what light does. |
Light does bounce off of objects, but objects do not reflect light. |
Yes, they do. We can observe and measure the reflected light. You can do this at home with a prism. |
Measuring the non-absorbed light does not mean that light is reflected LadyShea. I'm done with this topic for now. I will ask again: Is anyone interested in his first discovery? If not, it's okay, I will move on gladly.