Audi builds moon rover

Car manufacturer, Audi has developed a four-wheeled piece of hardcore astronomical research—a pint-sized lunar rover—rocking the carmaker’s familiar four-ring logo right on its grill.

The invention is the work of a German team called Part-Time Scientists (PTS), which created the machine as their entry into the Google Lunar XPrize.

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This competition challenges private teams to build, launch, and land a rover on the Moon, and then traverse 500 meters of the dusty lunar surface while shooting back photographic evidence of the feat. The pictures of the feat will be on Instagram for the ages—and a $30 million bounty for the first team to do it.

PTS’s goal isn’t just to win the XPrize, but to actually study the moon’s surface, as well, with an eye toward future exploration and excavation of minerals for construction of roads and structures.

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