Assertion: sun's energy | /r/CapableOf | reach earth
Facets:
value: in mere minutes
type: TEMPORAL
value: from the sun
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: There would be a small decline of energy reaching Earth, and just three years of current carbon dioxide concentration growth would make up for it.
text: Satellites have been directly monitoring the amount of the sun’s energy reaching the Earth since the late 1970s.
text: If the energy coming from the Sun into the Earth was the only exchange of energy that the Earth had with outer space, what would happen to the Earth?
text: This energy can reach Earth in mere minutes, but it takes millions of years to travel from the Sun’s core to its surface.
text: This energy can reach Earth in mere minutes, but it takes millions of years to travel from the Sun’s core to its surface.
text: Solar energy is radiant energy that travels from the Sun to Earth (a distance of about 150 million kilometers) and reaches Earth in about eight-and-a-half minutes at a speed of about 300,000 km per second (186,000 miles per second).
text: Most of the solar radiant energy reaching Earth is visible light (wavelengths of energy to which the eyes of animals are sensitive).