lunar rover

noun

, (often initial capital letters)

1. a wire-wheeled, battery-powered vehicle used by Apollo astronauts to explore the moon's surface.

Word History and Origins

Origin of lunar rover¹

First recorded in 1970–75

Example Sentences

Yet the lunar rover—or, in NASA parlance, the lunar roving vehicle, or LRV—upended all expectations of what was possible in a brief visit to another world.

From Outside Online

Smaller solar power satellites, like those designed to power lunar rovers, could be operational even sooner.

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