Space exploration vehicle designed to move across the surface of a planet or other celestial body.
1Advocacy efforts by planetary rover engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, played a key role in this perceptual shift.
2They could work, perhaps, as part of planetary rovers.
3The Soviet Union had demonstrated planetary rovers at scientific meetings in the U.S. beginning about 1987.
4Darpa launched its program in 1997 under the leadership of Eric Krotkov, a former Carnegie-Mellon roboticist and an expert in planetary rovers.
5Nasa has sent these sophisticated planetary rovers 34m miles across the solar system to take pictures that look just like the wild west.
6This was a problem for the first unmanned planetary rovers: the Soviet Union's two Lunokhods, which landed on the moon in 1970 and 1973.
Translations for planetary rover