Sentences with phrase «microwave radiometer peered»

As the spacecraft swooped 9,000 kilometers above the giant storm, Juno's microwave radiometer peered through the deep layers of cloud, measuring the atmosphere's temperature down hundreds of kilometers.

Not exact matches

Critically, Juno's microwave radiometer will not simply survey Jupiter's cloud tops — instead, it will peer below the ammonia clouds that shroud most of the planet, which are largely transparent to microwaves.