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 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
• Returning samples of Mars to Earth has been the highest priority of the planetary science community.
  — Washington Post, 30 July 2020
• But an increase in oxygen is probably not the whole story, said Andrew Knoll, a professor of earth and planetary sciences at Harvard University.
  — Quanta Magazine, 29 July 2014

Last Updated: 27 Aug 2024