ROVER

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An adult member of the Boy Scouts movement

Synonyms:

rover; scouter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("rover" is a kind of...):

Boy Scout (a boy who is a member of the Boy Scouts)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who leads a wandering unsettled life

Synonyms:

bird of passage; roamer; rover; wanderer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("rover" is a kind of...):

traveler; traveller (a person who changes location)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rover"):

nomad (a member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons)

clochard; drifter; floater; vagabond; vagrant (a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support)

Credits

Context examples:

Last year, a fleet of NASA spacecraft got a detailed look at the life cycle of the 2018 global dust storm that ended the Opportunity rover's mission.

(Global Storms on Mars Launch Dust Towers Into the Sky, NASA)

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover recorded this view of the sun setting at the close of the mission's 956th Martian day, or sol (April 15, 2015), from the rover's location in Gale Crater.

(Sunset in Mars' Gale Crater, NASA)

Two-tone mineral veins at a site NASA's Curiosity rover has reached by climbing a layered Martian mountain offer clues about multiple episodes of fluid movement.

(Curiosity Eyes Prominent Mineral Veins on Mars, NASA)

Last year, Opportunity became the long-distance champion of all off-Earth vehicles when it topped the previous record set by the former Soviet Union's Lunokhod 2 moon rover.

(Opportunity Mars Rover Passes Marathon Distance, NASA)

The study shows that this plasma void behind Phobos may create a situation where astronauts and rovers build up significant electric charges.

(Solar Eruptions Could Electrify Martian Moons, NASA)

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has measured a tenfold spike in methane, an organic chemical, in the atmosphere around it and detected other organic molecules in a rock-powder sample collected by the robotic laboratory’s drill.

(Curiosity Detects Methane Spike on Mars, NASA)

Even with more detailed studies of Martian meteorites coupled with thermal imaging of Mars taken from orbiters, and rock samples analyzed by rovers traversing the planet's surface, the best evidence of Mars' water history would be an actual Martian rock taken from the planet and transported back to Earth, intact, for detailed studies.

(New Evidence for A Water-Rich History on Mars, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A team using the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite aboard NASA's Curiosity rover has made the first detection of nitrogen on the surface of Mars from release during heating of Martian sediments.

(Curiosity Rover Finds Biologically Useful Nitrogen on Mars, NASA)

Here and there the pale, aquiline features of a sporting Corinthian recalled rather the Norman type, but in the main these stolid, heavy-jowled faces, belonging to men whose whole life was a battle, were the nearest suggestion which we have had in modern times of those fierce pirates and rovers from whose loins we have sprung.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For instance: Opportunity, as a solar powered rover, would have to hunker down to save energy; the upcoming InSight lander's parameters would need to be adjusted for safe entry, descent and landing in November; and all the cameras on rovers and orbiters would need to deal with low visibility.