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[QUOTE="sophiecentaur, post: 6815436, member: 199289"] If the atmospheric effects (blue sky) only extend to 20km altitude, the absorption would not be more than say 20%. So the contribution of what you see via the mirror could be perhaps 80% to what the space observer would see from direct scattering of theSun. Using that crude estimate, if there were a nearby reference black on the ground, the result from the mirror would be around 180% relative to the black area. That would probably make the mirror appear a bit but not much brighter than clean snow - noticeable under the right conditions. [/QUOTE]
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