The acoustic bass is "probably just the most beautiful-sounding instrument, " the Philadelphian says.

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It will also incorporate the observations of another current Metop instrument, Amsu (Advanced Microwave Sounding Units A1 and A2), which makes temperature profiles of the atmosphere.

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Here is a man who can take his instrument and produce from it the sweetest-sounding violin or the power-pumped beat of a drum kit.

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It is the world written about by Chris Hayes in Twilight of the Elites, where children are prepped to be members of the meritocracy, that benign sounding name for the ruling classes, which has gone from instrument of democratization to self-perpetuating mechanism within a generation.

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The Radio Plasma Imager instrument provides a three-dimensional view of the plasmasphere by sounding it with radio pulses, like an ultrasound image of the human body.

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