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Martian

[mahr-shuhn] / ˈmɑr ʃən /




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The mission is scheduled to launch at the end of October 2026, with the goal of collecting material from the Martian moon and bringing it back to Earth.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

The milestone came on the rover's 2,006th Martian day, known as a sol.

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

Perhaps Martian samples can be safely returned to Earth.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

“The first new Martians in at least a billion years,” he observes, “are not biological; they are robotic.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

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

As the Martians begin to emerge from a large meteorite, one character asks, “What are we going to say to them?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 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

Lowell deduced that when the planet’s oceans dried up, the Martians built a system of canals thousands of miles long to move water from the polar ice caps to dry areas.

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow


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