instrument
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More than 50 years after humans first flew around the Moon, Artemis astronauts will repeat the feat on Monday and use the most basic instrument to study it: their eyes.
From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026
Artemis 2 astronaut Victor Glover, who pilots the Orion spacecraft, said before liftoff this week that eyes were a "magical instrument."
From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026
To better understand the host galaxy, Sears led follow-up observations using Webb's NIRCam, its main near-infrared imaging instrument, several months after the event.
From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 2026
Deighton once credited the success of “The Ipcress File,” his debut novel, to the fact that critics “used me as a blunt instrument to beat Ian Fleming over the head.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
“This instrument has been in our family for a very long time,” he said, “since the days when Cyrus Shareef first built the farm.”
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
