On your next trip to the Moon, grab a cool $30 million bucks for making the first cell phone call from Earth’s natural sattelite.

Google is already offering $30 mill for a successful call and YouNeverCall has added another $10,000. Sounds measley in comparison.

YouNeverCall aims to extend Google’s mission by introducing a new facet. Officials stated that "…by challenging the scientific community with performing an everyday task on the moon, we are going a step further than Google. While the journey itself may be the destination in some sense – we think doing something useful once you get there will also add a little something."

There is a deadline– the call must be placed from the surface of the Moon, using a commercially availble cell phone — all by January 7, 2015.

For centuries now, the Moon has complained–to deaf ears, until now–that it could be providing all the street light we need, most of the time. No need for gas or electric streetlights, no sir, not unless there were clouds and such. Finally, someone’s listened, and developed Lunar-Resonant Streetlights, which use LED lamps that adjust lighting as necessary based on the available moonlight. Energy savings would be significant, up to 95%. We’ll just have to se if/when they move beyond he conceptual stage. Hang tight, Moon, your day will come soon!

Future robotic explorers are being tested by NASA at a remote location in Canada. Equipped with "GPS, stereo cameras, laser scanners and sun trackers," the K10 Black and K10 Red can laser map terrain over 3,000 feet away, and with ground-penetrating radar, which NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory developed, can map below ground as deep as 16.4 feet.

"We are learning about the awesome potential of human and robot teams," said NASA researcher Simon "Pete" Worden. "Studying how humans and robots can maximize scientific returns in sites such as Devon Island will prepare us to walk on the moon and Mars."

Powered by ordinary laptop batteries, the robots are able to cover over 120 acres of ground and operate for up to five hours at a time, depending upon outside temperatures.