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Small robots that can move around on the surface of a planet are called space shuttles.

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No. "Shuttle" has been pretty much used to indicate shuttling
between Earth and Earth-orbit.

The devices that have tooled around on the surface of Mars
have been referred to as "rovers". That was also the nickname
of the buggy on which the Apollo astronauts moved around on
the Moon in the early 1970s ... the "lunar rover".

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