radiometer
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Juno's microwave radiometer offered a better way to estimate the energy of lightning because microwave signals can pass through clouds.
From Science Daily ● May 21, 2026
Britain also supplied the radiometer, from Thales Alenia Space UK, and the imager, from Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd.
From BBC ● May 28, 2024
The instrument, a mini microwave radiometer, can measure heat and light emanating from oxygen and water vapor in the air.
From The Verge ● Jun. 10, 2022
Juno is equipped with a microwave radiometer, a device that tunes in to Jupiter’s microwave transmissions at six distinct frequencies, each value corresponding to a different depth.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 28, 2021
One of his ingenious expedients was to turn to use an ordinary radiometer of large bulb, and, having fitted this with tin-foil electrodes, he found that he was able to get strongly marked shadow pictures.
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896 by Various
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