How to Use rover in a Sentence

rover

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  • Merely sending probes and rovers to the moon and Mars won’t do.
    — Kim Tingley, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023
  • The findings come from a Chinese rover that spent two weeks on the moon in 2020.
    — Eric Niiler, WSJ, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The award is named for the Perseverance rover which was sent to Mars.
    — Baltimore Sun, 3 May 2022
  • The rover needed to know where to go and how to do so safely to combat the delay.
    — Nikolas Lanum, Fox News, 10 May 2023
  • Howell likened the idea to the Mars Helicopter, extending the reach of the Mars rover.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 21 July 2022
  • In some sense, the study is a validation of the current rovers on Mars.
    — Derek Smith, Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The rover is designed to be, as the name implies, flexible.
    — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 4 June 2023
  • The car-sized lander will deploy a small rover to explore the moon's surface.
    — George Petras, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The United Arab Emirates had a mini lunar rover on board that was lost in the crash.
    — Marcia Dunn, ajc, 26 May 2023
  • The Pragyan rover from the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft has been on the moon since Aug. 23, but entered into a sleep mode two weeks later.
    — Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Penn State safety Ji’Ayir Brown is a hard-hitting rover.
    — Jim McBride, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Feb. 2023
  • In fact, the Perseverance team picked the crater as the rover’s landing spot for that reason.
    — WIRED, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Paris-Saclay, PI of the rover’s ground-penetrating radar.
    — Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 28 Nov. 2022
  • This was the first robotic rover that had mobility and could move on its own.
    — Meghan Willcoxon, Journal Sentinel, 1 July 2022
  • The rover, named Perseverance, didn’t move from its spot.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2022
  • India’s Pragyan rover rolls down a ramp to the lunar surface in this video image from the Vikram lander.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Aug. 2023
  • India’s craft, which will land close to the lunar south pole, includes a lander called Vikram and a small rover called Pragyan.
    — Ramin Skibba, WIRED, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The rover will collect sample tubes and the return lander will retrieve them.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Up next is Mount Julian, a site that will provide the rover with a panoramic view into Belva Crater.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The lander, which is roughly the size of an SUV, is also carrying a smaller rover.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The rover and lander charge their batteries with sunlight.
    — George Petras, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Another Mars orbiter is planned within the next few years, to be followed by a rover during the second half of the 2020s.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Instead, the rover will spend about 2 months depositing them one by one, several meters apart, in a flat area of the crater.
    — Byeric Hand, science.org, 20 Sep. 2022
  • The 21 pictures snapped four seconds apart by one of the rover’s Navcams, were put together and sped up by about 20 times to show the motion of the dust devil.
    — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 1 Oct. 2023
  • The samples will then be shuttled by the same rover or a robotic helicopter to a lander with a rocket.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Sep. 2022
  • However, The New York Times explained that the rover’s design became too large to fit in one lander with the rocket.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 28 July 2022
  • Instead, the rover found some of the clearest evidence yet of ancient waters.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 10 Feb. 2023
  • The first steps of Artemis will be taken by robotic landers carrying small rovers, like Chandrayaan-3.
    — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 14 July 2023
  • Only once that little hurdle is cleared does NASA plan to greenlight one of the company’s rovers.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The mysterious moons of Mars Despite all the rovers have learned about the Martian moons, several questions remain.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Feb. 2024

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