The Google LUNAR X PRIZE is an international competition sponsored by Google and the X PRIZE Foundation for a cash prize of $20 million to the first team who can successfully launch and land an autonomous robot on the surface of the Moon, travel 500 meters over the lunar surface, and send images and data back to Earth by December 31, 2012. There are teams represented from around the world of which JURBAN is the only team who represents undeserved and disadvantaged minorities.