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
The sol has been Latin America’s most stable currency, according to the central bank.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026
The word 'solstice' comes from the Latin sol, meaning 'sun', and sistere - to 'stand still'.
From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2025
To achieve that, Cardinals turf manager Andy Levy arranged for 200 gallons of paint in the Rams’ royal blue and sol yellow to adorn the field and end zones.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2025
Remember, I'll only use it one sol out of every five.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
The soles of Hannah Cox's trainers tell their own story.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026
Often, brands make the soles even lighter by injecting gases such as nitrogen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026
She will re-glue the soles of her shoes so they last a little longer.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2026
Then picture adding sugar cane soles, calling them eco-friendly sneakers, becoming a Silicon Valley status symbol, and going public in 2021 with a market value that briefly topped $4 billion.
From Barron's ● Apr. 16, 2026
He had not found any socks to wear that morning, and the hot pavement burned through the thin soles of his shoes.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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
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
Since Mars takes longer to go around the Sun, a year is 668.6 sols.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
After ten sols it'll have made 125 liters of C02, which will make 125 liters of 02 after I feed it through the oxygenator.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
