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Google and the X Prize Foundation announced today the Google Lunar X Prize, a contest for private companies to land a privately funded robotic rover on the moon.

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<p>Any company that does land a rover on the moon will have to achieve mission objectives, including roaming the lunar surface for at least 500 meters and sending video, images and data back to Earth.</p>
<p>The grand prize winner that completes the mission objectives will receive $20 million, the second prize is $5 million and $5 million in bonus prizes. The deadline to win the grand prize is December 31, 2012, after that it will drop to $15 million until December 31, 2014, when the competition will end unless extended by <a title=

"We are confident that teams from around the world will help develop new robotic and virtual presence technology, which will dramatically reduce the cost of space exploration."

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