Google offers $20 million prize for moon landing
Search Engines
14 September 2007
Google has offered a prize $20 million to anyone that lands a robotic rover on the moon and beams images of its surface back to earth.
To win the competition, a team will need to send the robot to the moon, which will have to roam for a minimum of 500 metres and send video, images and data back to earth.
Google hopes that the competition will encourage scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs to further space exploration as well as inspiring more interest generally in maths and science.
The Google blog stated: "Why does Google love space? Well, for one thing, we just think it's cool. More seriously, space exploration has a remarkable history of producing technological breakthroughs, from ablative heat shields and asteroid mining to invisible braces and Tang.
"As Neil Armstrong famously pointed out, small steps lead to giant leaps. We hope that our sponsorship of the Lunar X-PRIZE is one of those small steps, and we can't wait to see what giant leaps result."
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