terrestrial
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“Space solar technology represents a transformative step forward by leveraging existing terrestrial infrastructure to deliver new, uninterrupted energy from orbit,” Nat Sahlstrom, a Meta executive overseeing energy and sustainability, said in a statement.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 27, 2026
If its efforts to collect continuous energy and beam it back to receivers on Earth are successful, it could provide a clean energy solution that avoids some of the limitations of terrestrial solar panels.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2026
Sites that capture soft tissues from terrestrial organisms are even more unusual.
From Science Daily • Apr. 23, 2026
Musk is raising money in an IPO partly to finance space-based AI computing he hopes will become cheaper than terrestrial data centers in only a few years.
From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026
If terrestrial microbes can survive the Martian environment, how much better Martian microbes, if they exist, must do on Mars.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing terrestrial
Over The Moon: Planetary Vocabulary
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Elements of the Universe: Terr, Terra ("Earth")
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100 SAT Words Beginning with "T"
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