Sentence examples for lunar rather from inspiring English sources

Eclipses have been predicted since ancient times, although usually lunar rather than solar.

With the Chang'e series, China has shown that, unlike NASA, their focus is on lunar, rather than Martian, exploration.

In turn, this also suggests that any differences in downward-going flux (most notably the isotropized suprathermal solar wind flux observed during beam events) most likely result from lunar rather than upstream influences.

Such simulants should match the samples returned from the Moon, all collected from the lunar regolith rather than outcrops.

The purpose of this approach is to enable more detailed, dynamic thermal analyses of mobile systems on the lunar surface rather than relying on worst case, boundary condition design approaches typically used for spacecraft thermal engineering.

For this reason a statistical enquiry should be based on a division by time (sequence of days in the lunar month) rather than space (Sun-Moon angle).

I grew up on tinker toys and LEGOs and to this day, if I find myself at a dinner party and my hosts' kids have a LEGO set, you'll find me on the floor working on a lunar landing pad rather than cocktailing.

Many white readers would rather embrace lunar man-bats than their fellow human beings.

The lunar rover had human drivers, rather than being operated remotely from Earth, millions of miles away.

The leading side of Rhea as it orbits Saturn has a remarkable bright crater, Inktomi, with extensive bright rays extending over much of the hemisphere, rather like the spectacular rayed lunar crater Tycho.

The Bank of Korea reported today that exports were 16.8percentt lower in February 2002 than in February 2001, and that industrial output was 2.6percentt lower, in part because the lunar new year holidays fell in February this year rather than January.