spectral
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"We investigated two sulfate-bearing sites near the vast Valles Marineris canyon system that included mysterious spectral bands seen from orbital data, as well as layered sulfates and intriguing geology," said Bishop.
From Science Daily • Mar. 10, 2026
Those spectra tracked changing signatures in the ejected gas, and new spectral features matched up with structures seen in the interferometric images, providing a direct one-to-one confirmation of how the flows were forming and colliding.
From Science Daily • Dec. 31, 2025
Gomez resonated with the spectral 1982 ballad “El Muchacho de Los Ojos Tristes,” as originally recorded by the O.G. sad girl en español, Jeanette.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2025
It felt very spectral and almost phantasmagorical and certainly not a depiction of a truth.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025
Closing his ears to the horrifying sounds and preferring to think of them as draughts of air rather than spectral voices, Taran quickened his pace.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
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