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Meanings of rover in English

Catalan
rodamón

Someone who leads a wandering unsettled life.

rodamón
Russian
планетоходы
Portuguese
astromóvel
Spanish
astromovil
Catalan
astromòbil

Space exploration vehicle designed to move across the surface of a planet or other celestial body.

планетоходы
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Examples for "planetary rover"
Examples for "planetary rover"
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Advocacy efforts by planetary rover engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, played a key role in this perceptual shift.
Wired
2
They could work, perhaps, as part of planetary rovers.
Radio NZ
3
The Soviet Union had demonstrated planetary rovers at scientific meetings in the U.S. beginning about 1987.
Wired
4
Darpa launched its program in 1997 under the leadership of Eric Krotkov, a former Carnegie-Mellon roboticist and an expert in planetary rovers.
Wired
5
Nasa has sent these sophisticated planetary rovers 34m miles across the solar system to take pictures that look just like the wild west.
The Guardian
1
NASA's space rover Curiosity has just touched down on the red planet, Mars.
Radio NZ

An adult member of the Boy Scouts movement.

Playing position in Australian rules football.

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Usage of rover in English
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In other words, the measurement destroys what the rover wants to measure.
The Guardian
2
Now, back to the rover-andto the new world he would create.
Year's best sf 15
3
The NASA-JPL team will run diagnostic tests on the rover this week.
Wired
4
Another challenge is identifying the relative and absolute location of a rover.
The South African
5
A rover reporter was walking down one of Ayacucho's main public halls.
The Neutronium Alchemist
6
The rover has been stuck in Martian soil for half a year.
Wired
7
General Borzov stepped down from the rover and approached the American scientist.
The Complete Rama Omnibus
8
The hi-tech rover will look for signs of past or present life.
BBC
9
On the ground, the rover's main workhorse cameras are the impressive MastCams.
Wired
10
Nasa's Curiosity rover has found strong evidence that Mars was once habitable.
BBC
11
It shows the tracks left by the rover while exploring a crater.
BBC
12
It's a project that builds upon the success of the Curiosity rover.
News.com.au
13
In 2013 China successfully landed its un-crewed Yutu rover on the Moon.
Radio NZ
14
Above him the rover dangled at the end of two long cables.
The Complete Rama Omnibus
15
Parallax had donated the stolen rover to Sanchez as a teaching aid.
Wired
16
Richard jumped out of the rover and ran into the control room.
The Complete Rama Omnibus
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Rover through the time
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United States of America
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United Kingdom
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