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Mars

[mahrz] / mɑrz /


NOUN
terrestrial planet
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"We think we're looking at organic matter that's been preserved on Mars for 3.5 billion years," said Williams, who helped develop the experiment.

From Science Daily • Apr. 28, 2026

However, the experiment cannot determine whether these organic compounds came from past life on Mars, natural geological processes, or meteorites that struck the planet.

From Science Daily • Apr. 28, 2026

There, Lowell convinced himself that alien-built canals crisscrossed the Martian surface, though anyone who has observed Mars with a similar telescope knows it’s hard to see much detail at all.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

In the 1890s, long-simmering dreams of an inhabited Mars found a foothold in the U.S., fanned by wealthy astronomer Percival Lowell, who built an Arizona observatory.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

It is the same feeling that flooded my system when I learned about the dust devils on Mars.

From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga