He began by documenting that college sports fans were far more likely to wear clothing with their team's logo on the day after victories than after defeats, a phenomenon he called "basking in reflected glory".
Unlike on Earth where the clouds seen in reflected light are visible because of light scattering, the contrast features on Venus are seen due to absorption and scattering.
In reflected light, the images reveal features seen near the cloud tops (~ 70 km altitude), whereas in the near-infrared images of the nightside, features seen are at mid- to lower cloud levels (~ 48 60 km altitude).
With a relatively even surface in reflected light, the siderite is grey with internal reflection.
You might expect him to be basking in reflected glory.
One could imagine Louis XIV basking in reflected musical glory.
The term lustre refers to the general appearance of a mineral surface in reflected light.
Books at present are exclusive; children need to see the world they live in reflected in their reading matter.
He has a new young woman in whose eager, shining eyes he can bask in reflected glory.
Somehow it explained Nigel, Jane thought: his angular unease and his gape, as if he were blinking in reflected light.
Twinning results in reflected images along a common twinning plane, repetitions rotated about a common twinning axis, or both.
