How to Use interplanetary in a Sentence

interplanetary

adjective

• The sunlight scattering off this interplanetary dust is called zodiacal light and is roughly 24.5 mag/arcsec2.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2024
• But in the scope of interplanetary physics, the two bodies are quite close.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 13 Jan. 2022
• Naraoka believes the seeds of life found on Ryugu could spread through the universe as interplanetary dust.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 15 Mar. 2022
• The ultimate goal of this interplanetary relay is to bring samples of Mars rock to Earth for the first time ever.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 19 Mar. 2022
• This substance, which is integral to the function of the interplanetary system, can only be found in the deserts of the planet called Dune.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2021
• The films are based on Frank Herbert's sci-fi novel of the same name, which takes place in a future entrenched in interplanetary warfare.
  — Stephanie Kaloi, Peoplemag, 28 Feb. 2024
• The idea of building a base to colonize Mars and become an interplanetary species has seen decades of talk and not a whole lot of action, but now at least there’s plan.
  — Amber Jorgenson, Discover Magazine, 12 Sep. 2018
• The series, set 40 years in the future, saw Hugh Laurie as the captain of a luxury interplanetary cruise ship that gets knocked off course.
  — Ashley Boucher, EW.com, 11 Feb. 2023
• Sez Me: Elon Musk thinks interplanetary thoughts with his billions.
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Dec. 2022
• Lost in the Solar System will take the audience on an interplanetary field trip led by Ms. Frizzle.
  — Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Jan. 2023
• Of course, that requires ESA to meet a tight schedule by sprinting to build, test and launch an ambitious interplanetary mission in less than four years.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 16 July 2024
• The mission carries more cameras than any interplanetary mission in history, with 19 on the rover and four on other parts of the spacecraft.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 19 Feb. 2021
• There was, of course, much more international—and even interplanetary—ire to spread around.
  — Leonard David, Scientific American, 11 Mar. 2022
• That last train was perhaps the busiest period ever seen for interplanetary travel—three uncrewed Mars missions were launched last summer in the space of two weeks.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 3 Sep. 2021
• SpaceX says that Starship will be able to carry up to 100 people on long-duration, interplanetary flights.
  — Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 2 May 2023
• Solar sails have, of course, been built and successfully launched on proof-of-concept missions in both interplanetary space and low-Earth orbit.
  — Steven Ashley, Scientific American, 23 Aug. 2022
• If Beck’s vision comes true, Rocket Lab would be the first company to launch a private interplanetary mission.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 18 Sep. 2020
• In lieu of Swift, astronomers used an interplanetary fleet of spacecraft (including probes at Mars and Mercury) to pinpoint the burst’s position.
  — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 11 Dec. 2023
• The second is a coronal mass ejection, or a large release of plasma into interplanetary space.
  — Jon Kelvey, Popular Science, 27 Feb. 2023
• But astronomers think that most asteroids are piles of rock bound together with a kind of interplanetary cement.
  — Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023
• The debris comes from SpaceX’s first interplanetary mission seven years ago.
  — Sophie Mellor, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2022
• But he is made for the moment, having had a sympathetic history with the Skrulls, a shape-shifting race of interplanetary refugees, and back on terra firma.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2023
• By contrast, Sunday’s set from the Sun Ra Arkestra employed a stageful of musicians to bring the late composer’s interplanetary music to life.
  — Benjamin Stas, BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2022
• All this adds up to a remarkable piece of interplanetary detective work.
  — Discover Magazine, 26 Oct. 2023
• And many of these launches will be the Starship refueling tankers needed to make the interplanetary trip possible.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 4 Jan. 2024
• But the authors note that this is likely not to resemble the reality of such space colonies constructed in interplanetary space.
  — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 24 Apr. 2022
• The size of a suitcase, M-Argo will be the smallest CubeSat to perform its own independent mission in interplanetary space.
  — Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2024
• The complex building blocks of life could have been created on interplanetary dust and then carried to Earth as part of a comet or asteroid that crashed into its surface, goes the theory.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
• James said six instruments designed to explore secrets of interplanetary space throughout the journey are working and sending clear signals to the earth.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Nov. 2021
• Other works evoke interplanetary travel even more explicitly.
  — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 16 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024