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MARS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A small reddish planet that is the 4th from the sun and is periodically visible to the naked eye; minerals rich in iron cover its surface and are responsible for its characteristic color
Example:
Mars has two satellites
Synonyms:
Mars; Red Planet
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
superior planet (any of the planets whose orbit lies outside the earth's orbit)
terrestrial planet (a planet having a compact rocky surface like the Earth's; the four innermost planets in the solar system)
Holonyms ("Mars" is a member of...):
solar system (the sun with the celestial bodies that revolve around it in its gravitational field)
Derivation:
Martian (of or relating to the planet Mars (or its fictional inhabitants))
Sense 2
Meaning:
(Roman mythology) Roman god of war and agriculture; father of Romulus and Remus; counterpart of Greek Ares
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
Roman deity (a deity worshipped by the ancient Romans)
Domain category:
Roman mythology (the mythology of the ancient Romans)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb mar
Context examples:
It might be related to large collisions taking place more than 300 million years ago in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, the researchers noted.
(Moon Data Sheds Light on Earth’s Asteroid Impact History, NASA)
The new comet, C/2019 Q4, is still inbound toward the Sun, but it will remain farther than the orbit of Mars and will approach no closer to Earth than about 190 million miles (300 million kilometers).
(Newly Discovered Comet Is Likely Interstellar Visitor, NASA)
Some of the dark sandstone in an area being explored by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows texture and inclined bedding structures characteristic of deposits that formed as sand dunes, then were cemented into rock.
(Mars Panorama from Curiosity Shows Petrified Sand Dunes, NASA)
They have likewise discovered two lesser stars, or satellites, which revolve about Mars; whereof the innermost is distant from the centre of the primary planet exactly three of his diameters, and the outermost, five; the former revolves in the space of ten hours, and the latter in twenty-one and a half; so that the squares of their periodical times are very near in the same proportion with the cubes of their distance from the centre of Mars; which evidently shows them to be governed by the same law of gravitation that influences the other heavenly bodies.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
While everyone will enjoy Mars in Scorpio in different ways, depending on where Mars is found in their chart, you will enjoy Mars in Scorpio more.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
But the first man on Mars would have experienced less unfamiliarity than did he.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
This isn't the first time a spacecraft has detected auroras on Mars.
(Auroras on Mars, NASA)
The recent findings on dust towers come courtesy of NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), which is led by the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
(Global Storms on Mars Launch Dust Towers Into the Sky, NASA)
NASA calls this concept "in situ resource utilization," and it's an important factor in selecting human landing sites on Mars.
(NASA's Treasure Map for Water Ice on Mars, NASA)
Due to the small size of Beagle 2 (less than 7 feet, or 2 meters across for the deployed lander) it is right at the limit of detection of HiRISE, the highest-resolution camera orbiting Mars.
('Lost' 2003 Mars Lander Found by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, NASA)
