Mariner 2
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Mariner 2, an American space probe to Venus, was the first robotic space probe to report successfully from a planetary encounter. The first successful spacecraft in the NASA Mariner program, it was a
Mariner 2 engineering model
President Kennedy is shown a model of Mariner 2 during a meeting with NASA officials after the successful completion of the mission, 1963
Mariner II trajectory projected on the ecliptic plane.
Depiction of Mariner 2 in space
Microwave radiometer
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A microwave radiometer is a radiometer that measures energy emitted at one millimeter-to-metre wavelengths known as microwaves. Microwave radiometers are very sensitive receivers designed to measure t
Humidity and Temperature Profiler (HATPRO-SUNHAT) at the Barbados Clouds Observatory.
Microwave Radiometer calibration performed by employees of Research Center of R&D in Optoelectronics, Magurele (Romania).
Time series from 14 April 2015 for (a) brightness temperatures measured at 7 different frequencies in the K (right) and V (left) bands, (b) retrieved vertically Integrated Water Vapor (IWV) and cloud Liquid Water Path (LWP), (c) temperature profiles from 0 to 5 km, (d) absolute humidity profiles from 0 to 5 km.