Sentence examples for if the rover from inspiring English sources

If the rover were on solid ground, that would have carried it about five yards.

If the rover launches as planned, it will arrive in 2021.

(The jackpot falls to $15m if the rover does not reach the moon until 2013 or 2014).

Yet even if the rover never gets out, its scientific value could continue as a weather and seismic monitoring station.

"It's almost as if the rover had a bout of amnesia," said John Callas, the project manager for the rovers.

If the rover were not moving, the frequency distortions of its signals to Earth would reveal the rate of wobbling in Mars's axis.

However, if the rovers traverse loose soil, like the planetary surface, there exists the sinking behavior.

Likewise, if you attached the rover beneath the lander, it could get trapped if the legs sank into sandy ground or landed at an odd angle.

If and when the rover drives down into Victoria Crater--its current location--the team hopes it will encounter the layer again, Squyres says.

That means that if they put the rover on top of the lander, there's every chance it would make the whole arrangement too top heavy, causing it to topple over.

"We couldn't recover any of the approved science objectives that we had for Spirit even if we heard from the rover, which is very unlikely," said John Callas, the project manager for Spirit and its twin, Opportunity, which continues to operate on the other side of the planet.