If you want to go to Mars but haven't got round to booking your one-way ticket yet, head over to Greenwich, UK. At the Visions of the Universe exhibition hosted by the National Maritime Museum, you will find a 13-m-wide curved screen onto which three projectors beam images taken by NASA's Mars rovers, Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity. The sweeping panoramic views make it seem like you are standing on Mars. And even better, when you stand on one of the crosses on the floor, subtitles explaining the Martian vista appear on the screen

Credit: © ROGELIO BERNAL ANDREO, 2009

The exhibition is designed to take you from our nearest neighbour, the Moon, to the other members of the Solar System, to the Galaxy and beyond. It is necessarily a showcase of our technological achievements, past, present and future. For example, there is a picture of the Orion Nebula hand-drawn by John Herschel, next to the first successful photograph of it taken by Henry Draper in the 1880s. But in the age of digital photography, the riotous colours and fine details of Orion (pictured) become so mind-blowingly stunning that they look fake!

Visions of the Universe brings our Cosmos to life. And it's more than visual — the background music composed by Nye Perry and students at Trinity Conservatoire in Greenwich lifts the experience to another level.

Visions of the Universe runs until 15 September 2013 at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK; 51.481111°N, 0.005556°W.