sol
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Curiosity recorded the panorama using its Mastcam on August 11, during the mission's 4,982nd Martian day, or sol.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 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
She kept perking up her ears, catching little glimpses of phrases here and there and working them through her head. “...mata al sol anciano...cuando las sombras...”
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
Footwear giants like Dr. Martens have repeatedly taken online big-box sellers to court over boot designs, while luxury house Christian Louboutin spent years in global litigation defending its signature red soles against high-street copycats.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
The shoes sport chunky soles with rigid, curved carbon plates and lightweight foam, and Nike asserts they improve running economy by as much as 4%.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 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
The soles of my sneakers are in bad shape.
From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi
Opportunity continued operating much longer, remaining active for an extraordinary 5,111 sols.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 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
I'll only need it every five sols, but what would I do on that sol?
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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