Marsbound

Marsbound

English

Alternative forms

  • Mars-bound, Mars bound

Etymology

From Mars +‎ -bound.

Adjective

Marsbound (not comparable)

  1. Heading towards the planet Mars.
    • 1962, Frank Belknap Long, Mars is My Destination, New York: Pyramid Books, page 7:
      Average Size had probably been boasting, telling everyone how lucky he was to be on the passenger list of the next Marsbound rocket.
    • 1968, William Tenn, The Square Root of Man, New York: Ballantine Books, page 148:
      I was hoping to see the Earth, but I figured it must be on the other side of the ship or behind us. I pressed my nose against the port and saw the tiny flicker of a spaceliner taking off, Marsbound, I wished I was on that one!
    • 2022 September, Ben Evans, “This complex, car-sized rover remains one of our best tools on the martian surface.”, in Astronomy, volume 50, number 9, page 27:
      Also during the cruise, the Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) measured radiation levels inside a Marsbound space-craft for the first time.
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