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Planetary explorers: Space rovers

By Michael Marshall and Lisa Grossman

14 September 2009

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The Sojourner rover was part of NASA’s hugely successful Mars Pathfinder mission. See more rovers in the gallery

(Image: NASA)

Humanity has sent many probes to the moon and planets, but only a handful of these machines have been able to travel over their surfaces. We round up the space rovers.

See the solar system’s robot explorers in our gallery

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