lunar
Example Sentences
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“This is a voyage of exploration, not lunar science and that’s fine!”
From Salon • Apr. 7, 2026
"First photo from the far side of the Moon. Captured from Orion as Earth dips beyond the lunar horizon."
From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026
There have been countless other important space-related milestones since Apollo 17, our last moon visit, but what’s more dramatic than bouncing around in one-sixth of Earth’s gravity and smacking golf balls between lunar craters?
From Salon • Apr. 7, 2026
Orion had made its closest sweep past the Moon, endured its spell of isolation, watched an eclipse in the black and then let lunar gravity bend its path back towards Earth.
From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026
He describes the slowly rotating Earth viewed from the lunar surface and imagines the continents and oceans of our planet to produce some associative image like the Man in the Moon.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
