AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Earth is getting darker; the planet itself, when viewed from space, appears darker than it did in the past. The upper half actually appears to be getting darker than the bottom half.

New research published this fall in PNAS used two decades of observations from NASA's Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) satellite to learn more about what's happening.

"(The records) show that there’s an increase in how much energy we get into the Earth system compared to how much is going out of the Earth system," said Oivind Hodnebrog, a senior researcher at Norway’s Center for International Climate Research to the Associated Press.

Essentially, Earth is absorbing more energy than it is releasing. As a result, the Earth is getting warmer as well.

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