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Kinda. Most of the light from the sun is in the visible spectrum and the atmosphere does not absorb those frequencies well. Incoming light that gets reflected (snow/ice) stays in the same wavelengths so it passes back out just as easily. However the light that is absorbed by the ground is re-radiated mostly as IR and the atmosphere, specifically greenhouse gases are really good at absorbing those.
There's a lot more going on though, it's really complicated. Here are 2 vids that do a good job at explaining it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUFOuoD3aHw&ab_channel=SixtySymbols
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqu5DjzOBF8&ab_channel=SabineHossenfelder