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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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Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 25 Nov. 2025
The team also pointed out that from Mars rovers to Arctic drones, LT electrolytes unlock reliable power where traditional LIBs cease to function.
—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 22 Nov. 2025
So did the James Webb Space Telescope, and the Hubble Space Telescope, as well as the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the Mars MAVEN craft, the European Space Agency’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, the Perseverance Mars rover, and three different NASA probes observing the sun.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 20 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
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Noun
The rover landed on the floor of the 28-mile-wide (45 kilometers) crater with the primary mission of hunting for possible signs of past life on Mars and to gather samples for a possible future return to Earth.
—Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 25 Nov. 2025
The team also pointed out that from Mars rovers to Arctic drones, LT electrolytes unlock reliable power where traditional LIBs cease to function.
—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 22 Nov. 2025
So did the James Webb Space Telescope, and the Hubble Space Telescope, as well as the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the Mars MAVEN craft, the European Space Agency’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, the Perseverance Mars rover, and three different NASA probes observing the sun.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 20 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
See All Example Sentences for rover
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“Rover.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rover. Accessed 27 Nov. 2025.
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