How to Use planetary science in a Sentence

planetary science

noun

• That was one of the more profound discoveries in planetary science over the past 25 years.
  — Bruce Selcraig, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Jan. 2022
• This leads them to the conclusion that all funding should be reserved for planetary science.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2023
• But the authors cautioned that the ambitious mission shouldn’t come at the cost of other planetary science.
  — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2024
• Long says the mission is a huge event for the lunar and planetary science community in China.
  — Andrew Jones, Science, 23 Nov. 2020
• The photo that emerged is a modest image of the extraordinary find that Dai said will advance the study of planetary science.
  — Leada Gore, AL.com, 6 Feb. 2018
• The only way to know for certain is to send a spacecraft there to check it out, and the planetary science community is awash in calls for a mission to unravel the mystery.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 18 Sep. 2020
• Beck hopes that Rocket Lab’s Venus probe will demonstrate that planetary science missions don’t have to be a once-in-a-decade, billion-dollar affair.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 18 Sep. 2020
• Cracking the case of Venus would clearly be to the benefit of not just a select few but everyone in the planetary science community.
  — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 2 June 2021
• The information gleaned during these missions has opened the door to planetary science at a cosmic level.
  — Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 May 2018
• The planetary science community had pretty much lost all hope for finding any signs of life (beyond Earth) in the Solar System during the 1970s.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 5 July 2018
• The attention on the red planet from multiple space agencies could be a boon for planetary science and Mars exploration.
  — NBC News, 19 Feb. 2021
• The chaos of the Soviet Union’s fall began a lasting period of fallow times for Russian planetary science.
  — Kenneth Chang and Anton Troianovski, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2023
• As always, what we get done will depend on whether the planetary science budgets do better than keeping pace with inflation.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 19 Apr. 2022
• The discovery of underground oceans in the outer Solar System has arguably been one of the biggest findings in planetary science in the 21st century.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2022
• The way Moore tells it, infographics seem like the ideal medium to communicate space and planetary science.
  — Angus Chen, Discover Magazine, 5 Sep. 2014
• And yet there has been a lot of mysterious movement within many planetary science missions.
  — Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 9 May 2023
• But the authors cautioned that the ambitious mission shouldn’t come at the cost of other planetary science, suggesting a roughly $5-billion to $7-billion cap.
  — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2024
• Its fresh data has transformed this research area from a fringe pursuit to a vibrant, established subfield of planetary science.
  — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 28 July 2022
• The focus now for NASA's planetary science division is executing on the missions already in the pipeline.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 10 Oct. 2023
• There’s about to be a huge gap in our abilities to study what’s going on in our own Solar System that can only be solved by launching a space telescope dedicated to planetary science.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 8 Apr. 2022
• In backing the Europa orbiter and Mars sample return missions for planetary science, Congress endorsed the top choices in a decadal survey released in 2011.
  — Jeffrey Brainard, Science | AAAS, 23 Mar. 2018
• The discovery of underground oceans in the outer solar system has arguably been one of the most significant findings in planetary science in the 21st century—and Europa is the poster child.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
• The hardware itself is also cheaper and simpler than a typical planetary science mission—Nova-C is a slender five-footed hexagon about the size of a British telephone booth.
  — Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 28 July 2022
• Chandrayaan-2’s safe descent would add to a remarkable string of successes for ISRO’s planetary science program.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 22 July 2019
• But the planetary science community can learn only so much by looking backwards.
  — Charlie Wood, Popular Science, 9 Apr. 2020
• For such a mission, some degree of overruns and delays seem inevitable and could have catastrophic effects for a planetary science portfolio stretched too thin.
  — Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 30 Mar. 2023
• The planetary science request covers the initial Mars sample return work and continues initial development of a probe to study Jupiter's icy moon Europa.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2020
• Both missions, but especially the lander, would be among the most complex, daring, and costly planetary science missions that NASA has attempted.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 18 May 2018
• The request proposes increases for earth and planetary science, two NASA research divisions that have been pitted against each other in recent years.
  — Science News Staff, Science | AAAS, 28 May 2021
• Derek Briggs, now a professor of earth and planetary sciences at Yale University, had initially inferred that odaraiidswere filter-feeders back in the early 1980s based on their strange form.
  — Ashley Balzer Vigil, Scientific American, 23 July 2024

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024