earthlike

Example Sentences

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Although Mars has the most earthlike environment of any planet in the solar system, the sad fact is that nobody seems to be home today, at least on the surface.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

“It seems possible to make it earthlike, but there's a lot of barriers to overcome,” Toon said.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 2015

Perhaps 0.000001 per cent exists in earthlike planets.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 6, 2015

Or was the origin of winged insects, flying mammals like bats, and the roughly 10,000 species of birds that use earth’s atmosphere, simply a one-off evolutionary fluke likely never to repeat on another earthlike planet?

From Forbes • Jun. 27, 2014

Rocks look fairly earthlike, but the absence or scarcity of anything like limestone is noticeable.

From Uller Uprising by Clark, John D.