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The red edge

The red edge

The earth's surface is covered with green plants and bacteria, which absorb a lot of red light and reflect a lot of visible and infrared light from the sun.

This leads to this really cool feature of life on earth: the red edge.

  • satellites around earth use this to trace vegetation growth
  • astrobiologists may be able to look for this feature to find a sign of life

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