How to Use Mars in a Sentence
Mars
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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 has long argued that the future of the human species depends on reaching Mars.
— Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024 -
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
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