ROVER popularity and ROVER trends

New six-cylinder and four-cylinder power plants will be offered along with the traditional V8

cylonlover writes "Last year, NASA revealed it was evaluating three potential 'tractor beam' technologies to deliver planetary or atmospheric particles to a robotic rover or orbiting spacecraft. At the time, the third of these, which involved the use of a Bessel beam, only existed on paper. Researchers at Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) have now proven the theor...

NASA may not be sending up manned shuttles anymore, but that doesn't mean we're done exploring the solar system—not by a long shot. On August 5th, the space agency's new flagship rover is expected to land on Mars as part of an unprecedented search for traces of life on the Red Planet. More »

Lau, general manager of Jaguar Land Rover Hong Kong, introduces the Jaguar XJ Ultimate in Hong Kong.

The competition will be held June 16, where NASA will award prize money based on how well the robots complete phase two

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Even robots like to have fun. NASA's rover on Mars showed off its playful side by snapping a picture of its own shadow. It's the latest self-portrait since the rover, named Opportunity, landed on the red planet in 2004....

Selten hat ein Auto so schnell so starke Emotionen hervorgerufen. Nach einem halben Tag hätte ich den neuen Range Rover Evoque am liebsten stehen lassen. Doch das Beste kam dann zum Schluss.

Der kleine Gelände-Lord trägt ein so feines Outfit. Da haben viele richtig Angst, er könne sich mal schmutzig machen. Doch das ist gar nicht sein Problem. Er bestätigt dem SUV-Zweifler einige andere unschöne Vorurteile.

Some people try to make the most of their spare time by exercising, volunteering or simply recharging their batteries. Others like to use that time to build robots that can be blasted to the moon and then set free to roam the lunar landscape. A group of engineers and researchers calling themselves Team Part-Time Scientists have chosen the latter, and are building a moon rover named Asimov t...

Mars rover snaps a picture of its winter home on a crater's edge

New research from North Carolina State University shows that a wind-driven "tumbleweed" Mars rover would be capable of moving across rocky Martian terrain – findings that could also help the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) design the best possible vehicle.

In building number 264 at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) hectic preparations are underway for the muchawaited landing of the onetonne Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity rover on August 5, 2012, near the base of a mountain inside Gale crater close to the Martian equator.

The 10-week-old fox was sniffed out by Rover, an 11-year-old collie cross Labrador, during a walk in the grounds of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.

Wer die Grenzen seines LEGO-Baukastens kennenlernen will, sollte sich an Sheepos Nachbau eines Land Rover Defender 110 versuchen: 2800 Teile stecken in diesem Modell im Maßstab 1:8,4, das wohl besser für einen Offroad-Trip ausgestattet ist, als so mancher Kleinwagen. mehr...

Están valorados en entre 500 y 3.000 euros cada uno. La policía apunta a una banda especializada en este tipo de delitos

Der Land Rover Defender ist ein Phänomen. Auf der Straße ist er der Konkurrenz hoffnungslos unterlegen. Er fährt sich wie ein alter Lastwagen, und doch wird das Unikum geliebt. Fahrtbericht zum 110 Station Wagon SE.

The week in science: Scientific journals to be protected in UK libel reform; Mars rover awakens; and the Global Fund emerges from a fund-raising crisis.

"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different." -Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut may have it right for most of us, but not all of us spend all of our time on Earth. A select dozen of us, in fact, have made it to, as Cat Power would sing, to The Moon. (Image credit: Apollo 15, Dave Scott, NASA.) Back in 1971, the Apollo 15 astronauts made huge s...

Jaguar Land Rover, owned by India's Tata, already spent £2billion with 40 suppliers in the UK last year. This will also lead to the creation of some 300 new jobs as the firm will open a new logistics facility in Ellesmere Port.

(Reuters) - Luxury car maker Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) will spend an additional 1 billion pounds ($1.62 billion) with UK suppliers over the next four years, the company said, as strong global demand for its Range Rover Evoque model continues.

Researchers put the full-size engineering model through its paces in the Californian desert, as the real thing shoots through space after its launch in November.

VENKY’S man insists club is not for sale despite dropping out of the Premier League

VENKY’S man insists club is not for sale despite dropping out of the Premier League

THE Mars rover Opportunity is on the go again.

Rob’s gritty new role in ‘Rover’ will make him an Academy Award contender, a casting director tells HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY — find out why! Robert Pattinson is rumored to be playing a robber in the upcoming film Rover, which will be a long way from Edward Cullen and the roles that made him most famous. But [...]

Diese Stars haben nachbessern lassen. Aber machen Schönheits-OPs wirklich schöner – und vor allem jünger? Raten Sie mal, wie alt die Promis sind.Foto: dpa Picture-Alliance, dpa picture-alliance / Globe-ZUMA, APIMehr zum ThemaSondermodelle - Jaguar und Range Rover feiern die QueenElektro-Knirps Volpe - Schrumpf ist TrumpfTrennung - Bei seiner Ex Doreen war sich Sido nie ganz sicherBauch-Battle ...

If you got drunk on Theraflu, blindfolded yourself and played a game of Grand Theft Auto with your feet, you'd probably hit less cars than Amanda Bynes does on a monthly basis. Amanda continued her training for a spot on the 2012 U.S. Stunt Driving Olympics Team by sideswiping a car with her Range Rover on Friday night. This is the second time in a month that Amanda has swiped a car, and...

Robert Pattinson will be trading those pesky "Twilight" Volturi as his on-screen enemies for real-life menace Saddam Hussein, then will play the bad guy himself taunting Guy Pearce.

Former MG Rover workers are to get a payout of £3 each from a trust fund started when the company closed down seven years ago.

Owners and MD pocketed £42m after buying Rover and when it collapsed set up a fund telling staff it will have 'millions' for themFormer MG Rover workers are to be rewarded with compensation of just £3 each following a seven-year battle for redundancy payments in the wake of the collapse of Britain's last major carmaker.News of the tiny payouts was announced to campaigners at a meeting on Monday...

This sneak preview offers highlights from this weekend's Barron's. Come back to Barrons.com on Saturday morning.

Audi liftet sein Mittelklasse-SUV Q5. Mit Modifikationen bei Antrieb und Design soll der große Bruder des Q3 im Wettbewerb gegen BMW X3 und Mercedes GLK bestehen. Die Preise steigen dagegen nur marginal.Mehr zum ThemaUrus – das SUV von Lamborghini - Estoque trifft BMW X6 – und wieLamborghini Urus - Ein 300-km/h-SUV wie ein DonnerkeilJeep Wrangler Dragon - Offroad-Dino im Jahr des DrachenRange R...

Posh is the driving force behind a new design collaboration with Range Rover that has her customizing its new Evoque car.

Zierkonsolen aus Rotgold, Teppichböden aus Mohair-Wolle und handvernähtes Leder: Die von Victoria Beckham designten Land Rover sind für Kunden mit ganz speziellen Ansprüchen an einen Geländewagen.

The mother-of-four can be seen in a variety of poses for the £80,000 Range Rover Evoque.

POP stardom? Tick. Fashion design? Nailed it. Now Victoria Beckham has turned her hand to designing luxury cars.

L'ESSAI DE CLAUDINE HESSE - Avec son toit paraissant rapporté et sa silhouette fendant l'air, ce crossover compact mais sexy réussit à donner un coup de jeune à la marque.

Nach dem Willen der EU sollen Autofahrer demnächst deutlich mehr für Diesel berappen. Das EU-Parlament stimmt am Donnerstag über eine Änderung der Benzinsteuern ab. Der Dieselpreis könnte dann um 28 Cent nach oben gehen.Mehr zum ThemaMit dem Land Rover Discovery auf der Seidenstraße - Die Jagd nach Benzin auf der Orient-TourEU-Parlament berät Spritsteuer - Brüssel will Diesel bis zu 28 Cent teu...

On the back of a 51% surge in Jaguar Land Rover sales, Tata Motors global sales including that of its subsidiaries grew 26% in March at 139,655 units over the year-ago period. In terms of cumulative sales for the fiscal, the company reported a rise of 16% at 1,252,173 compared to the corresponding period in 2010-11.

The Apollo 15 mission touched down on the lip of Hadley Rille, near the towering Apennine Mountains. The site was a geological treasure trove and the mission an outstanding scientific success - but a 1968 plan to meld an Apollo mission to Hadley with an unmanned rover mission might have led to even greater discoveries.

Right now, the Curiosity Rover is sailing through space en route to the Red Planet. The one-ton, car-sized beast should hopefully land intact…

Yesterday, as jurors at Lewes Crown Court returned guilty verdicts, it emerged that businessman Julian Gardner from East Sussex was killed only 18 months after his son was born.

Attention all you gold hoarders, doomsday predictors and survivalists. Land Rover has created a concept with you in mind.

Telegraph View: George Galloway seemed to forget briefly which city had elected him.

Dos Bentleys, un BMW 645, un Range Rover Sport y un Lamborgini Gallardo salen a subasta. No te molestes en mirar su precio. Es inalcanzable para los mortales

David Beckham is selling off his £500,000 car collection. The 36-year-old LA Galaxy footballer has reportedly decided to clear out the garage at Beckingham Palace - the UK house he and wife Victoria bought in 1999 - now they live in America full time. Two Bentleys, a BMW 645, a Range Rover Sport and his Lamborghini Gallardo worth £170,000 are all expected to go, along with three ...

David Beckham is selling off his £500,000 car collection. The 36-year-old LA Galaxy footballer has reportedly decided to clear out the garage at Beckingham Palace - the UK house he and wife Victoria bought in 1999 - now they live in America full time. Two Bentleys, a BMW 645, a Range Rover Sport and his Lamborghini Gallardo worth £170,000 are all expected to go, along with three ...

Der Mars-Rover Opportunity könnte, nach acht Jahren Arbeit auf dem Mars, mal ein Bad vertragen: Wie auf diesen Selbstporträts von Opportinity zu erkennen ist, hat sich auf seinen Solarzellen inzwischen eine so dicke Staubschicht angesammelt, dass sich der Nasa-Erkundungsroboter ein Winterquartier suchen musste. Denn die niedrig stehende Sonne des (auf der Südhalbkugel) bevorstehenden Marswinter...

The move comes hard on the heels of expansion plans already announced for the UK where bosses say they can't build vehicles fast enough.

British automobile company, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), owned by Tata Motors of India, and China's Chery Automobile have agreed to a joint venture for production of Jaguar and Land Rover cars in China.

Indian-owned UK premium carmaker makes its first foray into manufacturing in the world’s largest car market in a joint venture with a Chinese group

Genf, Schweiz (ots) - Land Rover feiert die Produktion des 1'000'000sten "Discovery" mit einer Expedition, die den langjährigen humanitären Partner IFRC (Internationale Föderation der Rotkreuz- und Rothalbmondgesellschaften) mit 1 Million Pfund (GBP) für ein Hilfsprojekt ...

Jaguar Land Rover unveils a convertible Range Rover Evoque design study at the Geneva motor show, while Mini shows off a new vehicle, the Clubvan.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Jaguar Land Rover and Chery Automobile Co are seeking regulatory approval for a 17.5 billion yuan ($2.78 billion) car venture in eastern China, two people with direct knowledge of...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Jaguar Land Rover and Chery Automobile Co are seeking regulatory approval for a 17.5 billion yuan ($2.78 billion) car venture in eastern China, two people with direct knowledge of the deal told Reuters on Monday.

Nasa says it is not giving up on Mars, but it will have to get there later and at a lower price.

Rover de Rover, sortie le 27 février (Cinq7/ Wagram). Attention, prudence....

India's top vehicle maker Tata Motors has selected a partner to build an assembly plant for its luxury British car brands Jaguar and Land Rover in China, a senior executive said on Tuesday.

If your weekday life consists of boardroom meetings hammering out mega-buck deals and the weekends are spent at your own private game farm in the Waterberg, the chances are your wheels of choice in that triple garage at your golf estate will be a Range Rover Sport.

LONDON - Arsene Wenger believes Thierry Henry's stoppage-time goal in the win over Blackburn will be remembered as a "special" moment if it turns out to be his last strike at the Emirates Stadium.

Air resources board approves rules that require one in seven new cars sold in the state in 2025 to be an electric or zero-emission vehicle, worrying some car dealers that regulations will increase car costs and stifle growth.Review: 2012 Range Rover Evoque

ONE Direction singer shells out £15,000 to insure himself on new Range Rover Sport

ONE Direction singer shells out £15,000 to insure himself on new Range Rover Sport

Detroit automakers got shut out of honors at their hometown's auto show Monday as the Hyundai Elantra and the Range Rover Evoque won North American car and truck of the year awards.

Danny Care's arrest on New Year's Eve on suspicion of drink-driving has increased concerns over the renewal of the Rugby Football Union's £4million-a-year deal with Land Rover.

The woman behind the Baxters soup empire has been banned from the road for driving her sick partner to hospital and parking her Range Rover across the ambulance bay, after drinking wine while preparing Christmas dinner.

It was the first time the Duke of Edinburgh had missed the Christmas Day church service and lunch at Sandringham and the traditional Boxing Day pheasant shoot the following day

Her damit! Ganz klar, der neue Range Rover Evoque weckt Begehrlichkeiten. Zumindest optisch. Kann er das auch anderweitig erfüllen, fährt er sich so gut, wie er aussieht? Der Test klärt offene Fragen.

A NASA-led team of researchers called the Desert Research and Technology Studies (D-RATS) field test their new lunar rover and human-exploration robotic systems in Black Point Lava Flow, AZ.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A NASA rover scouting for signs of past water on Mars has found the strongest evidence yet -- a vein of gypsum, a mineral deposited by water, protruding from an ancient rock.

A vein of gypsum found by a NASA rover is the "single most powerful piece of evidence" early Mars had liquid water, an expert says.

NASA's Opportunity rover has seen a mineral on Mars that could only have formed in the presence of liquid water.

NASA's Curiosity rover is on its way to Mars, on a mission to determine whether the planet once was home to microscopic life. ...

NASA has launched its most advanced machine yet built specifically for landing on Mars which will test future habitability of the planet and help the U.S. space agency plan a human mission there, perhaps by the 2030s

Nasa has launched its most ambitious rover mission to Mars - starring a 900kg robot that will look to find out whether the planet is, or ever has been, suitable for life.

Journey to reach 'Red Planet' to take nearly nine months; once landed, rover to probe rock, soil for life ingredients

Am Samstag startete an Bord einer Atlas-Rakete von Cape Canaveral ein Roboter ins All, ein sogenannter Rover namens 'Curiosity'.

Today's blastoff of the latest rover raises an interesting question. Since it is at big as a car, with wheels the size of one, how would the ...

The rover, dubbed Curiosity, rocketed toward Mars on Saturday

An unmanned Atlas 5 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida today, launching a $2.5 billion nuclear-powered NASA rover toward Mars to look for life habitats there.

The machine, Curiosity, is tasked with discovering whether water has ever existed on the red planet.

The US space agency is poised to launch the most advanced robotic rover ever built to explore Mars and hunt for signs that life may have existed.

NASA is scheduled to launch a rocket Saturday carrying a Mars rover in a new mission to explore signs of life on the Red Planet.

Die amerikanische Raumfahrtbehörde NASA startet heute eine spektakuläre Mission: Ein eigens für eine neue Mars-Mission entwickelter Rover namens "Curiosity" soll um 16.02 Uhr MEZ an Bord einer Rakete vom Weltraumbahnhof Cape Canaveral aus Richtung Mars starten. Nach einer etwa 570 Millionen Kilometer langen Reise soll der Roboter im August 2012 auf dem Roten Planeten landen und dort nach Spuren...

560 Millionen Kilometer Flug liegen vor dem Rover "Curiosity", zu deutsch Neugier. Die NASA will heute das hochmoderne Erkundungsfahrzeug zum Mars schicken. Im August 2012 soll "Curiosity" auf dem Roten Planeten landen und nach Spuren einstigen Lebens suchen.

Land Rover say misunderstanding as to nature of England's R&R fun day must be laid at feet of governing body.

An diesem Samstag will die Nasa den Mars Rover auf den Weg zum roten Planeten schicken. Dort soll er im August 2012 ankommen.

PLANETARY EXPLORATION reaches a completely new level with the launch next week of a Mars rover called Curiosity. It is less a rover than a working laboratory on wheels whose main mission is to gauge how likely it is that life arose on the Red Planet.

Kendall Jenner just got a brand-new Range Rover from parents Kris and Bruce for her 16th birthday. But does she even know how to drive? Are the streets still safe with Kendall zooming...

Ein süßeres 16.-Geburtstagsgeschenk hätte sich Kendall Jenner wohl nicht vorstellen können. Das junge Reality-Starlet bekam nicht nur einen Range Rover während...