How to Use regolith in a Sentence

regolith

noun
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  • The loose and meteorite-battered regolith that forms the Moon’s outer layer tends to muffle seismic waves from underneath.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The roots from the ones growing in the lunar regolith were not.
    — Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY, 12 May 2022
  • The remaining regolith was now locked in and ready to ship to Earth.
    — Chris Wright, Wired, 16 Dec. 2020
  • That second mission, to the south pole of the moon, would have a drill that would probe the lunar regolith for ice.
    — Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2021
  • One of the main challenges is wear to the cable when it is dragged over lunar regolith—the grit on the surface of the moon.
    — John Landreneau, IEEE Spectrum, 24 June 2023
  • And what better place to take off and land from than the giant litter box that is the undisturbed regolith of the Moon?
    — Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2013
  • During the day, both boulders and regolith soak up heat.
    — Quanta Magazine, 17 Jan. 2019
  • The real surprise was that the plants, stunted and stressed from growing in regolith, grew at all.
    — Stephen Ornes, Discover Magazine, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Most of the moon’s surface is covered by a fine gray dust called lunar regolith.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 3 Sep. 2019
  • As the regolith thaws, ancient streams will flow again and life will flourish along their ruddy banks.
    — Anna Russel, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
  • The contact pushes springs that trigger a blast of nitrogen gas that stirs up pieces of the regolith.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 16 Nov. 2018
  • The regolith, on the other hand, cools quickly, like beach sand after sunset.
    — Quanta Magazine, 17 Jan. 2019
  • The rover was intended to visit the lunar poles, where loose regolith, steep slopes, and shadowed craters abound.
    — Kate Baggaley, Popular Science, 18 May 2020
  • Hayabusa2 found that Ryugu also lacks fine regolith and has high-porosity rocks, says the agency.
    — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Even now robotic bulldozers and dump trucks were at work trundling more regolith onto the building across the way.
    — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 18 Oct. 2018
  • Are any of them still viable, buried under the moon’s regolith, the dust that varies in depth from a few metres to several dozen metres?
    — Laurent Palka, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2024
  • In places shadowed from the wind, loose regolith has built up, much of it with Mars' characteristic red tint.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 23 Nov. 2022
  • But new research shows that something can grow in regolith: a weed called mouse-ear cress (Arabidopsis thaliana).
    — Lela Nargi, Washington Post, 7 June 2022
  • That would entail flying a harvester to the moon, which would scoop up the regolith, then its processor would separate out the Helium-3.
    — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The teams monitor how dust affects rover movement and its solar panel, and how the regolith gums up the panels.
    — David A. Taylor, Discover Magazine, 1 July 2021
  • The regolith collected by the 2020 Rover will be the first samples ever brought back to our home planet for analysis.
    — Fox News, 4 Feb. 2020
  • Aldrin and Armstrong collected samples of the regolith and up to 50 rocks during their mission.
    — Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 19 July 2019
  • The hardened molten regolith is tough enough to withstand the weight of rovers and other spacecraft with minimal dust kickup, and it could all be made right there on the Moon.
    — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2023
  • The craft includes a four-legged lander and a small rover whose purpose is to study the lunar regolith and look for signs of water ice during a two-week mission.
    — Ramin Skibba, WIRED, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Though the moon's surface is mostly made up of the fine regolith, various rocks are scattered throughout.
    — Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 19 July 2019
  • Mars has some rather nasty chemicals in its regolith, like perchlorates, that Earth farmers try very hard to keep out of their soil.
    — Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 9 Oct. 2018
  • It is made of algae grown in tanks filled with water that would be harvested by melting ice found in the Martian regolith (sandy soil).
    — Evan Fraser, CNN, 7 Oct. 2022
  • She was not involved in the Chang’e-5 study, but has done extensive research on the likelihood of water in the lunar regolith.
    — Ned Potter, IEEE Spectrum, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Shevtsov is also working on a proposal to support plant growth in regolith on Mars.
    — Madeleine Gregory, Discover Magazine, 8 Apr. 2022
  • The sample tube holds about 15 ounces of lunar regolith, or loose rocky material from the surface.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 8 Nov. 2019

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