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
And a radiometer will sense how much of the energy falling on to Earth from the Sun is being reflected or radiated back into space.
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
Crookes, William, an eminent chemist and physicist, born in London; distinguished for researches in both capacities; discovered the metal thallium, and invented the radiometer; b.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall
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