How to Use rover in a Sentence

rover

noun
  • The drill is housed in the large grey box at the front of the rover.
    — Evan Ackermanerico Guizzo, IEEE Spectrum, 31 Mar. 2017
  • That was their dad's robotic moon rover.
    — Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 5 Aug. 2025
  • That's why landers and rovers have heat shields.
    — Julian Dossett, Space.com, 24 Mar. 2026
  • This rover is just step one for the two companies.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 2 Jan. 2026
  • The goal is a moon base with landers, rovers, drones and habitats.
    — Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2026
  • First, two rovers scanned and mapped the terrain around the cave entrance.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Merely sending probes and rovers to the moon and Mars won’t do.
    — Kim Tingley, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023
  • The rockets that send rovers to Mars were designed as agents of war.
    — Big Think, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The team even ran the rover through the deep, confusing shadows of dusk and dawn.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 19 June 2026
  • The rover will run a 100-day science mission.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 19 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • This was the first robotic rover that had mobility and could move on its own.
    — Meghan Willcoxon, Journal Sentinel, 1 July 2022
  • Also on board will be a rover and a data relay satellite.
    — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 May 2026
  • Wilson says that big implication of this is no more stuck rovers.
    — Jennifer Kite-Powell, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • And don't forget the mini space rover that loads into the cargo pod.
    — John Mihaly, PC Magazine, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Unlike the actual rover, which is still on the moon, this set can take pride of place on your shelves.
    — Chris McMullen, Space.com, 27 Nov. 2025
  • Russia would have supplied a Soyuz rocket to send the rover on its way.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 17 Apr. 2026
  • India and Japan are members of the lunar rover club, too.
    — Christopher Cokinos, Scientific American, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The car-sized lander will deploy a small rover to explore the moon's surface.
    — George Petras, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Power is supplied to the rover by solar panels.
    — Evan Ackermanerico Guizzo, IEEE Spectrum, 31 Mar. 2017
  • With these observations, the rover has made two main findings.
    — Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 24 June 2026
  • The 310 kg rover will traverse the martian landscape on six wheels.
    — Evan Ackermanerico Guizzo, IEEE Spectrum, 31 Mar. 2017
  • The smaller rover attached itself to the larger one for a rappel down the cave wall.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025
  • In some sense, the study is a validation of the current rovers on Mars.
    — Derek Smith, Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The award is named for the Perseverance rover which was sent to Mars.
    — Baltimore Sun, 3 May 2022
  • Imagine an astronaut or a rover on some alien planet, assigned to search for life.
    — Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Big Think, 12 Aug. 2025
  • But when those moments occur, the helicopter and rover teams back each other up.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Apr. 2023
  • The rover will collect sample tubes and the return lander will retrieve them.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2023
  • These are folded during the journey to Mars and opened once the rover is on the surface.
    — Evan Ackermanerico Guizzo, IEEE Spectrum, 31 Mar. 2017
  • The SkyFall mission won’t have a rover nearby.
    — ArsTechnica, 8 May 2026

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