sol
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Perseverance covered the marathon distance after five years and four months of driving, reaching the mark on the 1,890th Martian day, or sol, of its mission.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
Peru’s sol currency strengthened about 10% against the dollar in the last 12 months while the local stock market is booming.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
“In Spanish we have a saying, ‘El sol sale para todos,’ or the sun rises for everybody.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2025
In fact, strictly speaking, the droit du sol is not an automatic right in France, as it is for example in the US where a birth certificate is enough to get a passport.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2024
I spend thirteen hours every sol just sitting around while the solar panels charge the batteries.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
The soles of Hannah Cox's trainers tell their own story.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026
A decade ago, Nike created mysterious prototypes featuring giant soles and rigid interior plates that functioned like springs, unleashing the “super shoe” era across the sport.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
She will re-glue the soles of her shoes so they last a little longer.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2026
However, the company failed to retain consumers for its other products, including flip-flops with sugarcane-based soles and wool leggings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026
I removed my sneakers, and the ground felt instantly intimate on my soles, as if I had always lived here.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
During Perseverance's drives on the 1,707 and 1,709 Martian days, known as sols, the mission team shifted that responsibility to generative AI.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 31, 2026
Ingenuity is slated for a maximum of five flights over a period of 30 sols, but if it flies just once, says Tzanetos, “we’ll all go out and celebrate.”
From Slate ● Feb. 17, 2021
Before the outbreak, she earned around 45 sols a day — around $13 — collecting fares on a combi, one of the ramshackle minibuses that serve as public transport here.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 16, 2020
Recently, we reported on the use of tetraethylammonium-hydroxide silica sols to achieve homoepitaxial growth on exfoliated MFI nanosheets33.
From Nature ● Mar. 14, 2017
Between the trip and the MAV mods, that's ninety-five sols.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
