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
Through the 2008 financial crisis and then the pandemic downturn, the sol performed better than other regional currencies.
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
“In Spanish we have a saying, ‘El sol sale para todos,’ or the sun rises for everybody.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2025
Even adding some of the Hab's power cells would barely power the regulator for a sol, let alone give me enough juice to drive.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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
Each hub brought together suppliers of laces, soles and fabric, as well as logistics firms that help to quickly turn designs into store-ready products and ship them out.
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2026
She will re-glue the soles of her shoes so they last a little longer.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2026
He once bought a $117 pair of MSCHF’s Gobstomper shoes whose soles wear down to reveal differing colors in a nod to the hard-shell candy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
He wanted to rest so badly, the soles of his feet on fire with pain, his heart raging, his head pounding.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
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
That means I have thirty-five sols of extra food.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
