Bright Snow

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posted on 2025-05-09, 08:56 authored by Matthew PartridgeMatthew Partridge

A science explainer cartoon on why snow appears bright and white. Through a comical snowball-throwing moment, it illustrates how light scattering creates this visual effect, blending humour with physics.

History

Creation date

2017-01-13

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Snowball cartoon explaining light scattering and snow's brightness.

Transcript

Do you know why snow is so white and bright? Well it's because snow is a really good reflector, but rather than reflecting it like a mirror, it scatters the light. What you see is light from lots of directions being bounced out randomly When I throw a snowball I am just trying to help people appreciate the physics, close up PAF