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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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Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
The rover’s primary mission was to search for signs of ancient life and investigate minerals, environment and distribution of water and ice in the plain.
—Simone McCarthy, CNN, 9 Sep. 2024
Read More: Earth's Moon: The Basics of its Origin, Evolution and Exploration
Lunar Soil Is a Powerful Insulator
The mission’s Vikram rover also came equipped with a temperature probe, which collected samples that extended 10 centimeters below the surface of the moon and analyzed their temperatures.
—Lily Carey, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2024
This year, the rover arrived at the Gediz Vallis channel, a winding groove carved into a steep side of the mountain and long observed from Earth.
—Harriet Marsden, theweek, 24 July 2024
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Noun
To that end, NASA's InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) mission which in 2018 landed on the flat equatorial plains of Elysium Planitia, some 600km north of NASA’s Curiosity rover, spent four years taking data on the geophysics of Mars’ interior.
—Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
The rover’s primary mission was to search for signs of ancient life and investigate minerals, environment and distribution of water and ice in the plain.
—Simone McCarthy, CNN, 9 Sep. 2024
Read More: Earth's Moon: The Basics of its Origin, Evolution and Exploration
Lunar Soil Is a Powerful Insulator
The mission’s Vikram rover also came equipped with a temperature probe, which collected samples that extended 10 centimeters below the surface of the moon and analyzed their temperatures.
—Lily Carey, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2024
This year, the rover arrived at the Gediz Vallis channel, a winding groove carved into a steep side of the mountain and long observed from Earth.
—Harriet Marsden, theweek, 24 July 2024
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“Rover.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rover. Accessed 15 Oct. 2024.
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rover
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ro·ver
ˈrō-vər 
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