Kerala Students To Compete In Designing A Mars Rover

The CanSat competition will be held in Texas in June, and the URC will be held at the Mars Desert Research Station in the remote barren desert of southern Utah in May 2014.

The URC is the world's premier robotics competition for college students.

The TIST is among 31 university teams in the URC that represents six countries -- the U.S. India, Egypt, Poland, Canada and Bangladesh -- besides teams from the Yale University, Cornell University and the Warsaw University of Technology.

It is for the second consecutive year that a team from the TIST has been selected for the CanSat, organised by the American Astronautical Society (AAS) and American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) in association with NASA, Naval Research Laboratory (USA), Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp and PRAXIS Inc.

The five members of the CHRONOS team are: Muhammed Jabbar, P.V. Abimanyu Nair, Jibin Jose, Anoop Nayak and Joseph Stephen.
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