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

With the radiometer, the Juno team can create heat maps of Jupiter’s atmospheric layers and look for circular features at different altitudes in the atmosphere, which indicate the presence of a vortex.

From Scientific American • Oct. 28, 2021

And now, as we view the radiometer, the scene shifts by yet another century, and we come out of cloud-land and into our own proper age.

From A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science by Williams, Henry Smith