Sentence examples for small rover from inspiring English sources

In December 2013 Chang'e 3 hit the headlines after it successfully deployed a small rover on the lunar surface.

Chang'E 3, the craft that did so, then deployed a small rover called Yutu, or "Jade Rabbit" (pictured above), which travelled for 114 metres before getting stuck.

"The advantage of the moon is that it allows for people to come in at different price points: you can come in at a high level and build a lunar base or facility, or come in with a small rover or experiment.

Later missions could then land a small rover that would fetch and deliver the cache to a rocket that would return the samples to Earth for analysis.

When Hayabusa finally reached Itokawa, it released a small rover into space instead of dropping it on the asteroid (ScienceNOW, 14 November 2005).

Design and integration of a modular architecture for a versatile, reconfigurable and re-adaptable space vehicle is presented with application to a small rover.

By the time Steltzner started working with Rivellini, in 2000, NASA had just two small rovers in development: Spirit and Opportunity.

Five different solutions, which can be implemented in the near future, are studied in the present paper: a tether connecting the two landers, a cable shot from the radiotelescope or deposited by a rover, three laser relay stations deposited by a rover and three laser stations, mounted on small rovers landed at prescribed positions.

Hickam said he's aware of plans by private commercial firms to send small rovers to the moon, able to trundle to Apollo landing sites.

Opportunity, the older (and smaller) rover cousin of Curiosity made the headlines last week when it discovered more conditions that could have supported life on Mars in its past.

Opportunity, a small exploratory rover that landed on Mars in 2004, has trundled to a crater called Endeavour.