Ellen Stofan

Humans can actually read a landscape, go through a lot of rocks - crack them open, throw them, pick up the next one. Rovers are great - they do amazing science - but it is a lot more tedious process; they go much less far than a human can cover in a day.

American Scientist

Andy Weir

Back in the days of Apollo, sending humans to the moon was the only viable way to get the scientific data we wanted. But now, with our computer and robotics technology, there's very little an astronaut can do on Mars that a well-designed rover can't.

American Novelist

Brad Sherman

It would be great some day to have astronauts in a rover on Mars. But just about anyone except an oil company executive would say its more important to have 50 million solar powered vehicles in the United States.

American Politician

Mohamedou Ould Slahi

Writing is like driving a car. Writing the beats of a screenplay? It's like driving a rover on Mars. You have to be absolutely, extremely precise.

Steven Squyres

These rovers are living on borrowed time. We're so past warranty on them. You try to push them hard every day because we're living day to day.

Christina Koch

I invented an algorithm for starting micro turbo-molecular vacuum pumps to be used in science instruments on a future Mars rover.

American Astronaut

Ahmed Zewail

Curiosity - the rover and the concept - is what science is all about: the quest to reveal the unknown.

Egyptian Scientist

Megan Smith

We are the only country with an operating rover on Mars. We are an amazing country on tech.

American Public Servant

We didn't know if the rover could climb up or down the hills of the crater.

Use 'rover' when discussing vehicles designed for space exploration on different terrains.

Space Technology

'Rover' implies the vehicle is operated from a distance, not with a person inside.

Remote Operation

While 'Mars rover' is common, rovers can explore other celestial bodies too.

Not Just Mars

When describing a person as a 'rover,' it usually means they love travelling and seeking new experiences.

Life Adventure

A 'rover' often doesn't have a permanent home or job, moving from place to place.

No Fixed Home

Historically, 'rover' can refer to pirates or seamen, known for roaming the seas.

Historical Use

In sports, a 'rover' has a dynamic role, moving to where they are needed on the field.

Sport Flexibility

Using a 'rover' can be a strategy in sports to adapt to the opposing team's play.

Strategic Position

A 'rover' must be versatile, skilled in various aspects of the game, and ready to fill in as needed.

Versatile Player

 But the reality is that the rover would sort of float over it. But we were freaked out, for a little while. So, we did some testing. And then we decided to go. But we didn't decide to go all at once. We put a toe in and then put another toe in, we drove up to the top and looked over and then we drove back. Then we said, "Okay, go." So here's the image from the other side.

The Curious Life of a...

 burtles or bobo but he picked out benito panettone who was bombing doing the wing like an extra set missile man he cushioned it on his chest knocked meg george here flicked it up one of these buns one lollipop two lollipop three and then he laid it on a plate at the barbie fierce assassin emmanuel macvittie you know the new lad we got from mayor blackboard rovers for

A Grumpy Shoebill...

 Only then will we be able to know where those signatures are hiding, and only then will we be able to send our rover to the right places where we can sample those rocks that may be telling us something really important about who we are, or, if not, maybe telling us that somewhere, independently,

Nathalie Cabrol: How...

 there have been life how do we find it so we're taking steps in that direction now both from orbit and from from the rover's I have the privilege of working on the team that day-to-day working together scientists and engineers sets the activities of the rover we get the

Solar System Exploration:...

 it would lower the rover from high above the surface. With each invention, the engineers demonstrated an essential habit of scientific thinking - that solutions must recognize the limitations of current technology in order to advance it.

The power of creative...

 Hills a two-month journey four times farther than the rover was ever expected to drive Squyres thinks it's the best option but the engineers are dubious I remember he said that this is where we're going

Mars Rover: Spirit PIPE...

 not just robots but human curiosity and the advances of technology is what I would think is one of the first robot selfies which is the Curiosity rover on Mars. These are two of my favorite images

Robert Wood: Robotic...

 video of surface of Mars taken by the Marti imager strapped to the world's largest extra s triol rover hanging underneath the largest supersonic parachute ever built two and a half

To Mars and back, a...

 open-sided land rover with the latest infrared technology to try again as usual they were sleeping i would have to wait for darkness

Best Lion Moments Part 2...

 if opportunity's mission had ended here it would have been a great success but now the rover heads for a bigger deeper