How to Use Mars in a Sentence

Mars

noun
  • There are many rock glaciers on Mars, and around the town of McCarthy.
    Ned Rozell | Alaska Science, Anchorage Daily News, 29 July 2023
  • The waxing crescent Moon in your sign squares off against Mars and Uranus.
    Jennifer Culp, Them, 5 July 2024
  • Its seven movements focus on Mars as the bringer of war, Venus as the bringer of peace, and so on.
    Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Prepare for your fire to cool as Mars moves in Pisces today.
    USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Bright-red Mars and giant Saturn will be the easiest to see with the naked eye.
    Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 28 May 2024
  • These patterns have not been seen anywhere else on Mars.
    Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
  • On April 5, the start of the night of the full moon, three of the five visible planets will be in the sky, including Venus, Mercury and Mars.
    Julia Musto, Fox News, 7 Apr. 2023
  • If men are from Mars and women are from Venus, are boys insects and girls mammals?
    Kyle Lukoff, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 May 2023
  • This fairly small space rock is in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Musk first unveiled the Starship concept in 2016 as a means of getting people to Mars.
    Byadam Mann, science.org, 20 Apr. 2023
  • As the moon and Mars harmonize, an impulse buy is well deserved.
    USA TODAY, 9 May 2024
  • In 1993, id released Doom, a first-person shooter about a husky space marine battling demons on the moons of Mars and in Hell.
    Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Now, the center is looking beyond the moon to speed up what will be a much-longer flight to the nation’s ultimate target of Mars.
    Lee Roop | Lroop@al.com, al, 7 Apr. 2023
  • To stay for an extended time on the surface of Mars, though, astronauts won’t be able to rely on their space pantries.
    Sarah Scoles, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2023
  • After all, humans might one day travel in space capsules to Mars.
    D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2024
  • They’ve also been spotted on Mars, as well as on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Mar. 2024
  • That’s why these Mars samples deserve to be returned to earth as soon as possible.
    Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024
  • The space rock has an elliptical orbit that takes it past the orbit of the planet Mars and in between the orbits of Venus and Mercury.
    USA TODAY, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Ask which planet in the solar system is Earth's closest sibling, and many people might point to Mars.
    Regina G. Barber, NPR, 8 May 2024
  • The gas builds up and eventually breaks through slabs overlying ice around Mars’ poles.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 Apr. 2024
  • August 27 – This morning the crescent moon joins Mars and Jupiter to form a captivating trio.
    Doyle Rice, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Aug. 2024
  • The company plans to use Starship to send people and cargo to the moon and, ultimately, Mars.
    Associated Press, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2023
  • SpaceX aims to eventually use Starship to carry crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the moon and Mars.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Nov. 2023
  • However, the Moon then faces off with out-of-the-blue Uranus and passionate Mars, bringing a shock that may shake our foundations.
    Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 16 July 2024
  • Finally, the Moon joins with bold Mars, giving us passion and bravery.
    Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 25 Apr. 2023
  • More broadly, the paper adds to the growing body of research on our potential Mars’ food supply.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 May 2024
  • Regulus, the brightest star in the constellation Leo the Lion will also be near the cluster, to the upper left of Mars.
    Doyle Rice, The Courier-Journal, 21 June 2023
  • Neither is a very lightweight choice, but steel is durable and methane could be collected on Mars to power the rocket, writes NPR.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Later, when the nurturing Moon bothers fiery Mars, frustration may nag at us to give up.
    Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 8 July 2024
  • That image was on Lemmon’s mind during the Mars photoshoot.
    Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024

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