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List of rovers on extraterrestrial bodies

A rover is a planetary surface exploration vehicle designed to move across the surface of a planet or other celestial body. Rovers are used to explore, collect information, and take samples of the surface. This is a list of all rovers on extraterrestrial bodies in the Solar System. Since 1970, there have been seven lunar rovers, seven Mars rovers, and three asteroid rovers that have successfully landed and explored these extraterrestrial surfaces.

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Focusing System Flexure-Mechanism for the Close-Up Imager Instrument of the ExoMars Rover

Simon Nessim Henein, Philippe Schwab

This paper presents the design of a flexure based focusing system, part of the Close-Up Imager (CLUPI) instrument which is planned to be integrated on the future ExoMars NASA-ESA Mars Rover to be launched in 2018. Various design trade-offs are discussed, i ...

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Rover (space exploration)

A rover (or sometimes planetary rover) is a planetary surface exploration device designed to move across the solid surface on 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, tasked to collect information about the terrain, and to take crust samples such as dust, soil, rocks, and even liquids.