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MARTIAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Imaginary people who live on the planet Mars
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
imaginary being; imaginary creature (a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to the planet Mars (or its fictional inhabitants)
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Mars (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)
Derivation:
Mars (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)
Context examples:
According to the MAVEN data, solar particles that caused the "Christmas lights" penetrated deeply into the Martian atmosphere—sparking auroras less than 100 km from the surface.
(Auroras on Mars, NASA)
Dust in the Martian atmosphere has fine particles that permit blue light to penetrate the atmosphere more efficiently than longer-wavelength colors.
(Sunset in Mars' Gale Crater, NASA)
Two-tone mineral veins at a site NASA's Curiosity rover has reached by climbing a layered Martian mountain offer clues about multiple episodes of fluid movement.
(Curiosity Eyes Prominent Mineral Veins on Mars, NASA)
A study published this week based on observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) during the most recent Martian global dust storm — in 2007 — suggests such storms play a role in the ongoing process of gas escaping from the top of Mars' atmosphere.
(Dust Storms Linked to Gas Escape from Mars Atmosphere, NASA)
Martian water ice is locked away underground throughout the planet's mid-latitudes.
(NASA's Treasure Map for Water Ice on Mars, NASA)
The Martian Sol 128 event is exciting because its size and longer duration fit the profile of moonquakes detected on the lunar surface during the Apollo missions.
(NASA's InSight Detects First Likely 'Quake' on Mars, NASA)
Perchlorate identified in Martian soil by the Curiosity mission, has properties of absorbing water vapor from the atmosphere and lowering the freezing temperature of water.
(Mars Rover's Weather Data Bolster Case for Brine, NASA)
Microbes seem far-fetched at this point, but the other alternative — that the Martian atmosphere contained more oxygen in the past than it does now — seems possible.
(NASA Rover Findings Point to a More Earth-like Martian Past, NASA)
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover recorded this view of the sun setting at the close of the mission's 956th Martian day, or sol (April 15, 2015), from the rover's location in Gale Crater.
(Sunset in Mars' Gale Crater, NASA)
Curiosity also detected different Martian organic chemicals in powder drilled from a rock dubbed Cumberland, the first definitive detection of organics in surface materials of Mars.
(Curiosity Detects Methane Spike on Mars, NASA)
