At first, it appears that Extrasolar is nothing more than a website offering an unusual gift to its participants. According to the registration site, they state the Extrasolar program allows members to remotely control rovers on a planet known as Epsilon Prime. Funded by a group known as the eXoplanetary Research Institute (XRI), they are effectively crowdsourcing the planets exploration by letting anyone log in and photograph the landscape with a rover.
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