An annual competition for college students to design and build the next generation of Mars rovers that will one day work alongside astronauts on the Red Planet. Former students and community members alike are encouraged to reach out to their alma matters and local universities to help form teams.

The 2010 Mars Society’s University Rover Challenge (URC) will be held June 3-5, 2010 at the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) in Utah.  Teams and their rovers will compete in four events: an equipment servicing task, a site survey task, a sample return task, and an emergency navigation task that will require rovers to search for a distressed astronaut who is lost and disabled in the field.

Project owners + coordinators:
Kevin Sloan