The equilibrium temperature of a planet is the temperature at which a body radiating like a perfect emitter would send to space exactly the power the planet absorbs from its star. The fraction of the incoming light that the planet reflects as a whole is its Bond albedo .
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Example 2.4 (The Earth)
With and , , that is . (NASA’s fact sheet lists .) The average temperature of the Earth’s surface is , : the greenhouse effect of the atmosphere warms it by about . Without it the oceans would freeze.