Rover (space exploration)
Space exploration vehicle designed to move across the surface of a planet or other celestial body / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For more specific instances, see Lunar rover and Mars rover.
For other uses, see Rover.
A rover (or sometimes planetary rover) is a planetary surface exploration device designed to move over the rough surface of a planet or other planetary mass celestial bodies. Some rovers have been designed as land vehicles to transport members of a human spaceflight crew; others have been partially or fully autonomous robots. Rovers are typically created to land on another planet (other than Earth) via a lander-style spacecraft,[1] tasked to collect information about the terrain, and to take crust samples such as dust, soil, rocks, and even liquids. They are essential tools in space exploration.