Winners of the 2019 RASC-AL Special Edition:
Moon to Mars Ice & Prospecting Challenge
1st
 
West Virginia University
Title: The Mountaineering Ice Drilling Automated System III (MIDAS III)
Faculty Advisors: Powsiri Klinkhachorn & Ilkin Bilgesu
2nd, Clearest Water Collected
Most Accurate Digital Core
Stevens Institute of Technology
DEIMOS: Drill-based Extraction of Ice-water and Martian Overburden System
Faculty Advisor: Eric Williams
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- 2021 RASC-AL Moon to Mars Ice & Prospecting Challenge Winners
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- 2018 RASC-AL Mars Ice Challenge Winners
- 2017 RASC-AL Mars Ice Challenge Winners
Best Technical Paper (TIE)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
HYDRATION (High Yield Dihydrogen-monoxide Retrieval And Terrain Identification On New worlds)
Advisors: Jeffrey A. Hoffman, Martin L. Culpepper, Herbert H. Einstein, Michael Hecht, George C. Lordos
Northeastern University
Northeastern University Prospecting Underground Distilling Liquid Extractor (NU-PUDLE)
Advisor: Taskin Padir
Lightest System Mass
Carnegie Mellon University
The Autonomous Prospecting and Extraction System (APES)
Advisor: Aaron Johnson, Catherine Pavlov, Heather Jones
Honorable Mention
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
HYDRATION (High Yield Dihydrogen-monoxide Retrieval And Terrain Identification On New worlds)
Advisors: Jeffrey A. Hoffman, Martin L. Culpepper, Herbert H. Einstein, Michael Hecht, George C. Lordos
Day 1 of 2019 Competition
Day 2 of 2019 Competition