Downwelling Longwave Radiation (DLR): Thermal infrared radiation emitted downwards from the atmosphere that contributes significantly to the surface energy budget.

More information: Liu et al, Clouds reduce downwelling longwave radiation over land in a warming climate, Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08323-x Provided by McGill University ...

This new research, however, focuses on a second possibility: that the organic material formed within Ceres and has been stored in a reservoir shielded from solar radiation.

NASA's Dawn probe took a series of stunning new images of Ceres' chain of craters called Gerber Catana, from an altitude of just 240 miles (385 kilometers) – the closest the spacecraft has ever ...

NASA put together this animated version of a fly-over of Ceres using their new low-altitude images from the planet, just 900 miles overhead. So, what are we seeing here that we weren’t before?

Using concomitant radiosonde data, the clear-sky contribution to the downward flux at the surface is computed and, subsequently, the effect of clouds from the surface measurements is deduced. The ...

Dwarf planet Ceres found to have sea water beneath its surface Located in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, Ceres was discovered to have a deep reservoir of salt-enriched water that ...

In the year since NASA's Dawn spacecraft started orbiting the dwarf planet Ceres, the probe has made some surprising discoveries. From the bright, reflective spots in some of the world's craters ...

New images of the dwarf planet Ceres, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft in its closest-ever dip toward the surface, show a surface marred by signs of stress.