Synonyms of rover
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Noun (2)
ever since he developed a strong case of wanderlust in college, he's been a rover
a story of the days when sea rovers plied the Caribbean
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Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 15 Nov. 2025
The last such liftoff occurred on July 30, 2020, when NASA's sample-collecting Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter roared into Earth's skies atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 13 Nov. 2025
Last year, for example, NASA’s Curiosity rover recorded a solar storm that generated 100 days’ worth of the Milky Way’s normal background radiation over the span of a single day.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 6 Nov. 2025
Multiple programs and projects face the axe, including the Mars Sample Return Mission, which is currently underway, with the Perseverance rover caching rock and soil samples that a later spacecraft would fly to Mars and collect.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 5 Nov. 2025
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This could include things like search and rescue in collapsed buildings, planetary rovers, deep-sea robots, and industrial inspection in dark, dusty, chaotic places.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 15 Nov. 2025
The last such liftoff occurred on July 30, 2020, when NASA's sample-collecting Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter roared into Earth's skies atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 13 Nov. 2025
Last year, for example, NASA’s Curiosity rover recorded a solar storm that generated 100 days’ worth of the Milky Way’s normal background radiation over the span of a single day.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 6 Nov. 2025
Multiple programs and projects face the axe, including the Mars Sample Return Mission, which is currently underway, with the Perseverance rover caching rock and soil samples that a later spacecraft would fly to Mars and collect.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 5 Nov. 2025
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“Rover.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rover. Accessed 18 Nov. 2025.
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