Terrestrial Planet Definition

noun
Any of the four planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, whose orbits are closest to the sun.
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Any planet of the solar system or any exoplanet which is "Earth-like" in the sense that it is composed primarily of metals and rock, in contrast to a planet which is a gas giant.

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Noun

Singular:
terrestrial planet
Plural:
terrestrial-planets

Terrestrial Planet Sentence Examples

  • For Terrestrial Planet Finder, five spacecraft, flying in formation about one kilometer apart, will function as an optical interferometer.

  • Caltech have a Virtual Planetary Laboratory aimed at reproducing possible spectral signatures to help the Terrestrial Planet Finder program.

  • Only one terrestrial planet is known to have an active hydrosphere, Earth.

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