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 two tunes swap spaces, and Gaga and Mars may not be able to recover.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
  • As the moon and Mars harmonize, an impulse buy is well deserved.
    — USA TODAY, 9 May 2024
  • The waxing crescent Moon in your sign squares off against Mars and Uranus.
    — Jennifer Culp, Them, 5 July 2024
  • After all, humans might one day travel in space capsules to Mars.
    — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2024
  • If men are from Mars and women are from Venus, are boys insects and girls mammals?
    — Kyle Lukoff, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 May 2023
  • Musk has long argued that the future of the human species depends on reaching Mars.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 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
  • That’s why these Mars samples deserve to be returned to earth as soon as possible.
    — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024
  • Bright-red Mars and giant Saturn will be the easiest to see with the naked eye.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 28 May 2024
  • This fairly small space rock is in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Their survival to this day tells us Mars' mantle has evolved sluggishly over billions of years.
    — Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Musk aims to send the first uncrewed Starship to Mars in 2026.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The gas builds up and eventually breaks through slabs overlying ice around Mars’ poles.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 Apr. 2024
  • Our children are all going to live on the same planet, and maybe Elon [Musk]’s will live on Mars.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 5 July 2025
  • This week, Mars fills a trio of spaces on the Official Streaming chart.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
  • SpaceX has its fair share of setbacks, including just this week when a Mars test rocket was delayed.
    — Preston Fore, Fortune, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Leto is currently on tour with his band 30 Seconds to Mars through the end of summer.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 11 June 2025
  • 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
  • They’ve also been spotted on Mars, as well as on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Today, Mars is a chilly desert of rock and dust — but 4 billion years ago, the planet had rivers, lakes and even oceans with sandy beaches.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Space.com, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Most asteroids are found in the asteroid belt–a ring between the orbit of Mars and Jupiter.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 20 Dec. 2024
  • That place, the ice line – sometimes called the snow line – was in what’s now the asteroid belt, which is between Mars and Jupiter.
    — Lucas Brefka, The Conversation, 19 May 2025
  • 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
  • Keep in mind, Mars will clash with Jupiter in your sign early on in the month, which can create friction with family and friends.
    — Valerie Mesa, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The pairing of Mars Blackmon and Michael Jordan changed the whole sneaker game.
    — Zak Cheney-Rice, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2025
  • 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 | [email protected], al, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Libra lights up your friendships and social life, while Mars in Scorpio activates your healing zone the same day.
    — Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 29 Aug. 2025
  • This same site was used in 2019 to test the Tianwen-1 Mars lander that carried the Zhurong rover.
    — Leonard David, Space.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Musk first unveiled the Starship concept in 2016 as a means of getting people to Mars.
    — Byadam Mann, science.org, 20 Apr. 2023

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