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

The device they use is a microwave radiometer.

From Scientific American • Aug. 3, 2021

It is a sort of differential bombardment of the gas molecules on the two faces of a dust particle somewhat analogous to the action on Mr. Crookes' radiometer vanes.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884 by Various