Binghamton University has more than 60 students combining their efforts to build a rover that could go to Mars.

The brand new Binghamton University Mars Rover Team is building a vehicle that will not only survive on Mars, but also complete various tasks that NASA might need.

The team's rover will challenge other schools' across the country in the Mars Society annual competition. Only 35 teams make it and this is Binghamton's first time competing. After almost a year of researching, planning, and designing, students are ready to take action.

"In the last week, if you estimate that each person puts in about 40 hours with over four people in the lab, that's over 160 hours just to assemble what we have today," said IEEE President, Samuel Stone. "And then in the past year, the majority of people put in between 6 and 8 hours a week on the project." 

Binghamton will find out if it qualifies for competition within the next month.