How to Use martian in a Sentence

martian

adjective

• David Harewood wants the Martian to get drunk and sing karaoke.
  — Jevon Phillips, latimes.com, 24 July 2017
• After a final check, the blades adjusted their pitch and managed to beat enough of the thin martian air to rise.
  — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 19 Apr. 2021
• That hasn’t stopped people from imaging what hanging out on martian soil might be like, though.
  — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 3 Oct. 2018
• But now, researchers say the storms may also be one of the culprits in the ultimate martian cold case: how the once-wet planet lost its water.
  — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 12 Nov. 2020
• The level is typically low, often in the parts per trillion range, and seems to rise and fall as martian seasons change.
  — Alexandra Witze, Scientific American, 24 June 2019
• The Dry Valleys may well be our closest equivalent to a Martian landscape.
  — Photographs and Text By Jonathan Corum, New York Times, 29 May 2017
• If in fifteen years there are no Martian homesteaders, who will be their market?
  — George Pendle, Esquire, 28 Mar. 2017
• As winds eventually dispersed the sand on top, the negative space where the dune once stood was preserved as a pit on the martian surface.
  — Frankie Schembri, Science | AAAS, 11 July 2018
• One of Odyssey’s instruments measures the neutrons kicked up from the martian surface by cosmic rays striking the planet.
  — Sid Perkins, Science | AAAS, 16 Aug. 2017
• Mars 2020 will carry two tools to study martian samples on a microscopic scale.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 17 Jan. 2018
• The team also wants the cache to include a tube containing nothing but air, an important resource for those who study the martian atmosphere.
  — Byeric Hand, science.org, 20 Sep. 2022
• The martian rovers, for instance, have crawled 45 miles in 26 years, never deviating from NASA’s instructions.
  — Sarah Scoles, Discover Magazine, 12 Mar. 2019
• Learning more about the martian Trojans might also prove useful for future space exploration, Campins notes.
  — Richard Lovett, Science | AAAS, 20 Oct. 2017
• Rovers on Mars are searching for traces of similar microbial structures in ancient Martian lake beds.
  — Photographs and Text By Jonathan Corum, New York Times, 29 May 2017
• Its purpose is simply to demonstrate the feasibility of flight in the thin martian atmosphere.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 28 July 2020
• The full experiment included a mock spacecraft, mock landing, and mock habitat on the Martian surface.
  — Philip Toledano, National Geographic, 12 Dec. 2016
• There is now strong evidence that any life signatures would have been eroded away over time due to the harsh martian environment, according to UCL's Carter.
  — Dominic Rech, CNN, 20 Aug. 2019
• It is blamed for stripping away much of the Martian atmosphere and bombarding the surface of the moon with elements including helium, neon and argon.
  — Karen Kaplan, latimes.com, 31 May 2017
• Its martian robots are assembled in cleanrooms, with many components baked in ovens or doused in chemicals.
  — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 18 Oct. 2019
• From chemical analysis of the chunks of Mars that arrive on Earth as meteorites, researchers have a sense of the martian mantle’s composition.
  — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 18 Apr. 2018
• Tiny Doppler shifts in radio broadcasts sent from Earth to receivers on InSight will reveal other details of the martian interior.
  — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 18 Apr. 2018
• If glamping in a geodesic dome in a faux-martian landscape isn’t quite your style, how about glamping in a geodesic dome in the Canadian forest?
  — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 15 Nov. 2018
• In 1997, the Mars Pathfinder landed on the planet and explored the surface for three months, analyzing the Martian atmosphere and climate and assessing the composition of its rocks and soil.
  — National Geographic, 30 June 2017
• Some were orbiters that would study martian winds, weather, or tiny variations in the planet’s gravitational pull.
  — Bypaul Voosen, science.org, 29 Mar. 2023
• And today, the Mars rover hit an important landmark: 2,000 sols, or martian days, spent exploring and making discoveries.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 22 Mar. 2018
• Another clue has added to the incentive: In a separate study in this week’s Science, Curiosity scientists report that traces of methane in the martian atmosphere rise and fall with the seasons.
  — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 7 June 2018
• Researchers also have examined using various types of chemicals to transform the Martian soil into something that could be used to form habitats.
  — Gary Robbins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 Apr. 2017
• In 2009, researchers reported that inexplicable martian plumes randomly belch out thousands of tons of methane at a time.
  — National Geographic, 7 June 2018
• If Perseverance somehow happened upon living martian microbes, scientists would have to face a host of ethical questions about what to do with them.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 30 July 2020
• Each martian summer, the atmosphere’s methane concentration rises to about 0.6 parts per billion.
  — National Geographic, 7 June 2018

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024