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ID: past-exam-of-the-short-options-paper-shared-by-prelims-and-parts-a-and-b-of-the-physics-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2016/s29/1/4/a/solution

The Moon's mean equatorial temperature near 206 K is well below the approximately 270 K global effective radiative temperature. The surface has a large day-night range and finite thermal inertia; exceeds , so comparing those two differently averaged quantities as though they were equal is invalid. The discrepancy need not imply a missing atmospheric greenhouse effect on an airless Moon.

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