inhospitable

Picture a thin slab of sandy, inhospitable desert land by the side of Highway 78, just a few miles from the Salton Sea.

Robots can contribute to that scientific research, with the ability to travel to locations inhospitable to humans, where they can use instruments to study and probe the atmospheres and surfaces.

Instead, the planet has likely been a scorching, inhospitable world for its entire history.

The San Diego Symphony, one of the country’s rising orchestras, has renovated its formerly inhospitable concert hall with surprising success.

Mars is more inhospitable to human occupation than the most punishing terrestrial environments, such as Antarctica and the remote desert.