Ten teams aligned for Google’s Lunar X Prize competition and are ready to fight for the $30 million Google has put on display. All participants, from five different countries, have one mission: to land a robotic rover on the moon by 2014.

The winner will get the $20 million Google had promised in September, while the second place will get $5 million. There will be also $5 million in bonuses for reaching certain places or discovering something new. This Thursday, Space Florida also announced a $2 million bonus to the winning team if they take off from Cape Canaveral.

“Florida’s long been recognized as a preeminent leader in any activity that involves our exploration of the moon,” said Steve Kohler, Space Florida president, MSNBC reports. “Part of our effort as a state and as an organization is to continue that legacy. We believe (this competition) will allow the state to become a future hub for commercial projects).”

The ten teams that will be competing in Google’s Lunar X Prize are: Aeronautics and Cosmonautics Romanian Association (ARCA) with the “European Space Explorer”, Astrobotic with “Artemis Lander” and “Red Rover”, Chandah with “Shehrezade”, Frednet, LunaTrex with “Tumbleweed”, Micro-Space with “Human Lunar Lander”, Odyssey Moon with “MoonOne (M-1), Quantum3 with “Moondancer”, Southern California Selene Group with “Spirit of Southern California” and Team Italia.

“The idea of seeing these rovers on the moon and returning after 40 years…faster than the national programs is really exciting to me,” said Sergey Brin, Google co-founder. “We love entrepreneurship here – it’s worked well for us. So we’re looking forward to the launches in the coming years.”

Google’s initiative is set to beat NASA’s plans to return to the moon by at least 6 years…at least in terms of actually reaching the moon. NASA said it will send astronauts to the moon by 2020. Even without a human crew, the ten teams will need to prepare their robotic missions for temperatures of 250 degrees below zero.