Today Nvidia announced that the company’s Tesla GPUs are being used by a team of German scientists participating in a global competition to land a robotic rover on the moon by 2015.

NVIDIA GPUs will be instrumental in helping us land the Asimov rover safely and allowing us to calculate a wealth of detailed information to enhance our understanding about the lunar surface,” said Robert Böhme, team leader of the PTS team. “At the same time, we will demonstrate the amazing scientific accomplishments that are possible with modern, high-performance GPU technology.”