Do you remember Google’s contest? Yeah, you do - it’s the Lunar X Prize which could bring $20 million for the winning team. In order to win this competition, the team will have to send a craft into space and land it on the moon, then the rover will transmit specific data to Earth, move 500 meters and then it would have to transmit the same data to Earth.

This quest has to be completed by the end of 2012, after that the award decrease to $15 million and to nothing if another couple of years pass by. If they manage to do this, there a prize of $5 million for the second place and another $5 million for the teams that discover lunar ice and reach historic lunar sites.

Until now 10 teams have registered for the contest and I expect it will be very hard for them to send the rovers to the moon for less than $20 million, but you never know. Some teams already released some informations about their purposes - Team Italia announced its spider-rover (pictured above), a cellphone-size rover was announced by other team and Carnegie Mellon plans to reach the landing site of Apollo 11.