If you were on a spacecraft and you pointed an infrared thermometer at a one-layer planet, what

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If you were on a spacecraft and you pointed an infrared thermometer at a one-layer planet, what temperature would it read? What if the planet had two layers? Or n-layers? Assume S and α are the same as for the Earth. Remember that an infrared thermometer measures the radiation coming from an object and yields the temperature the object must be in order to be emitting that radiation.

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