nanorover

nanorover
 n.— «Would the rover descend into the crater or just peer over the edge? Would it launch a much smaller tethered rover—a “nanorover” in the current Esa phraseology—or fire harpoons down into the dark ice?» —“Europe’s lunar vision blossoms” by Richard Black in Vienna BBC News Apr. 10, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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