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