Sunday, February 24, 2008

10 teams sign up to land rovers on the Moon


According to Dvice:

10 teams are fully registered to send their robotic space ships to the moon.

As you have read earlier, Google is sponsoring an X-Prize type of competition that will award the first team to land, remotely control and complete a series of specific activities, a rover type device on the Moon. The first team to do so will take home the lion share of 20 million dollars.

The Dvice article goes on to say:

(A) spider-like lunar rover (is) proposed by Team Italia ( pictured above), another team plans to send a toaster-sized ‘bot to the surface, with a cell phone-sized rover inside to take that 500-meter jaunt across the lunar surface. Meanwhile, a team from Carnegie Mellon vows to visit the landing site of Apollo 11.

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