fatehbaz:mapsontheweb:Corn Eating Sunlight Seen from Outer SpacePlants performing photosynthesis abs
fatehbaz:mapsontheweb:Corn Eating Sunlight Seen from Outer SpacePlants performing photosynthesis absorb light from the sun, but they also emit a small fraction of that light as a fluorescent glow. The US Corn Belt during corn season does more photosynthesis than anywhere else on the planet.amazing. the “corn belt” - for reference:the prairie peninsula (illinois, indiana, western ohio) and tallgrass prairies (north of flint hills/wooded northern missouri). and, outside of the “Midwest” and Great Plains, on the space imagery you can even see that there’s flouresence emitted from corn crops in the mississippi river plain (south of Cairo, Illinois, through Memphis to about Baton Rouge) that contrasts with the other crops and native vegetation more typical of the lowland South (so, Southern corn’s doing its growing/work at different daylight/times compared to other crops in the South) -- source link