It includes a large diorama of the planet's surface on which visitors can operate robotic rovers.

Spirit is a robotic rover on Mars, active from 2004 to 2010.

Opportunity is a robotic rover on the planet Mars, active since 2004.

Also in the 2009 Federal budget, the agency was awarded funding for the preliminary design of robotic Lunar/Martian rovers.

That means it's time for the two robotic rovers there, Spirit and Opportunity, to be going into a kind of hibernation.

Most people will not get the chance to control Spirit, the robotic rover on the surface of Mars.

Experiments include learning how craters and Martian sandstorms are formed, programming a robotic rover, and looking for evidence of water.

Solar energy collectors sent to the moon could send power by laser to robotic rovers exploring lunar craters, for example.

This system is intended to be capable of making a soft landing on the Moon and deploying a robotic rover.

Scientists want to visit these areas with robotic rovers.