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Martian

[mahr-shuhn] / ˈmɑr ʃən /




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These golf-cart-size rovers were originally designed to operate for just 90 Martian days, but both dramatically exceeded expectations.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026

To reproduce some of these effects, the researchers conducted a simulated Martian gravity test after the astronauts returned to Earth.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026

The mission -- which aims to be the first round trip to the Martian region -- is a collaboration with US and European space agencies, as well as numerous universities and tech companies.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

We do already have some fragments of the Red Planet here on Earth in the form of Martian meteorites.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

The next year, Bridge, Tab, and Emily were the set of fifth graders who drew creatures on their homework papers, and they drew the same things they had drawn before: bird, snake, and Martian.

From "Goodbye Stranger" by Rebecca Stead

Thursday’s duties these days are mostly administrative, but she re-enters the Prose Portal after Martians from H.G.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

The U.S. and much of the rest of the world had Martians on the brain.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025

Quirk was always a few covers away: The Day The Martians Landed, screamed one headline, with two alien spaceships looming dramatically; or ESP: Fact Or Fiction, as part of a series of "eternal controversies".

From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2023

Belief in Martians sprang in large part from a wealthy amateur astronomer, Percival Lowell, who built the observatory that still bears his name.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 25, 2023

Or we provide our own radioactively labeled gases and see if they are converted into organic matter, in which case small Martians are inferred.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan


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