radiometer

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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

Every station except for the highest one is outfitted with a net radiometer, an instrument that measures incoming and outgoing radiation, and the lower stations also carry rain gauges and present weather sensors.

From Washington Post • Dec. 13, 2019

That is a model of the double-decked boat made by Sir William Petty, and there beyond is a specimen of almost, if not quite, the first radiometer devised by Sir William Crookes.

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