Martian
Americanadjective
noun
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Martians
plural
adjective
noun
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Etymology
Origin of Martian
1350–1400; Middle English marcien < Latin Mārti ( us ) of, belonging to Mars ( see March) + -an
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Pillinger and his team believed it had descended too quickly after being caught out by Martian atmospheric conditions.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Last year, technology which will be used in the search for evidence of Martian life was tested by a University of St Andrews team at Lower Diabaig, in Torridon.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
When NASA's Perseverance rover arrived at the inner rim of Mars' Jezero Crater in September 2023, researchers expected to encounter sedimentary rocks along what was once the shoreline of a Martian lake.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
The first panorama was recorded on Aug. 30, 2026, at 9:56 a.m. local Mars time, marking the mission's 5,000th Martian day, or sol.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
LEFT: Martian fighting machine from the 1906 edition of Wells’s novel.
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
Spotted in July 2024, the reddish mudstone contains organic compounds and other minerals that could have supported bygone microbial Martians.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
But in English the word was translated as “canals,” and it was quickly and widely assumed that these canals were strategically created by agriculturally-inclined Martians.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025
Quirk was always a few covers away: The Day The Martians Landed, screamed one headline, with two alien spaceships looming dramatically; or ESP: Fact Or Fiction, as part of a series of "eternal controversies".
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2023
Belief in Martians sprang in large part from a wealthy amateur astronomer, Percival Lowell, who built the observatory that still bears his name.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 25, 2023
The Martians of H. G. Wells and Orson Welles, preoccupied with the suppression of Bournemouth and Jersey City, never noticed until too late that their immunological defenses were unavailing against the microbes of Earth.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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