radiometry
radiometry The measurement of incident radiation by a radiometer. A typical usage was the infrared scanning radiometer on the Apollo 17 lunar mission which used a thermistor mounted in a small telescope on the orbiting lunar command vehicle to record lunar surface temperatures.
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