Geometric albedo For Earth-bound observers this occurs when the body in question is at opposition and on the ecliptic. The visual geometric albedo refers to the geometric albedo quantity when accounting for only electromagnetic radiation in the visible spectrum. The surface materials (regoliths) of airless bodies (in fact, the majority of bodies in the Solar System) are strongly non-Lambertian and exhibit the opposition effect, which is a strong tendency to reflect light straight back to its source, rather than scattering light diffusely. The geometric albedo of these bodies can be difficult to determine because of this, as their reflectance is strongly peaked
Incompressible surface ∂"D". If "D" were to bound a disk inside "S" (which is always the case if "S" is incompressible, for example), then compressing "S" along "D" would result in a disjoint union of a sphere and a surface homeomorphic to "S". The resulting surface without the sphere might or might not be isotopic to "S". There is also an algebraic version of incompressibility. Suppose formula_4 is a proper embedding of a compact surface in a 3-manifold. Then "S" is "π"-injective (or algebraically incompressible) if the induced map on fundamental groups is injective. In general, every "π"-injective surface is incompressible, but