lunar rover
Satellite surface vehicle
A lunar rover is a vehicle designed to travel across the Moon's surface.
The term usually refers to the battery-powered cars astronauts drove during later Apollo missions, though it also covers unmanned robotic vehicles: The lunar rover allowed astronauts to explore terrain miles from the landing site.
Also called a Moon buggy.
- Apollo missionsNASA's lunar exploration program
- regolithFragmented covering over bedrock
- autonomous vehicleCar needing no driver
- Apollo programUS moonshot initiative
- robotic armMotorized jointed machine appendage
astronaut · impact craters · sensor array · solar panels · radio antenna · lander · crater · low gravity · moon base · moon · remote control · mission control · electric motor · sample collection · space suit · orbit · space probe · samples
- moon vehicles
- spacecraftspacecraft, starships, spaceship, Voyager 1, rocket ships
- spaceflightlaunch, astronaut, spacecraft, liftoff, orbit
- future vehiclesflying car, hovercraft, hoverboard, jetpack, spaceship
- exploration vehiclessubmersible, bathyscaphe, icebreaker, research vessel, snowcat
- Space Programsrocket launch, satellite launch, launch vehicles, space station, space research
terrestrial vs. extraterrestrial operation
lunar roverautomobile
Self-propelled passenger conveyance
car · road car · SUV · off-road vehicle · truck