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

They discovered that the roots of the Great Red Spot extend to at least 240 kilometers below the cloud tops, as far as down the microwave radiometer could see.

From Scientific American • Oct. 28, 2021

In an atmosphere of ordinary density, the accession of heat which the vanes of a radiometer might receive from a radiant source would be diffused through the mass of the inclosed air.

From Scientific Culture, and Other Essays Second Edition; with Additions by Cooke, Josiah Parsons