Making Mars: Aussie research turns red dirt into metal
Human settlement on Mars may be one step closer after Australian researchers have discovered a way to make metal using the planet’s red dirt.
Researchers from the University of CSIRO and Swinburne announced the breakthrough on Monday and announced that they have successfully produced iron using a synthetic version of Mars soil.
Metal, which will use carbon and solar -energy heating from the atmosphere of the planet, can be used to build radiation shields and buildings instead of relying on the materials transported from Earth.
The announcement comes after explaining NASA’s plans. Send astronauts to Mars In the early 2030s, it uses a staging floor once a month.
The Australian Research Project said the space agency’s building materials are designed to help Mars to avoid the expenses and challenges of the possibilities offered by the “on -site resource use”.
He said that by removing metal from Mars by him, astronauts could enter the wide natural resources of the planet to build a human -friendly environment.
“Mars is much easier in terms of removing metals (Moon),” AAP said.
“The red color of Mars comes almost because there are too many iron, which is called regolit, dirt and dust on the surface.”
Nasa had developed a way to remove carbon from the atmosphere of the planet, Dr Dr Power can be used as a reducing agent and can be combined with the heat from solar energy to form iron on the planet.
After CSIRO, Deddy Nababan tested the theory by using an artificial version of Mars soil, and placed in a room to re -create and heat Mars air pressure.
“We chose a stimulus with very similar features on Mars on Mars, and we processed them on the world with simulated Mars conditions to give us a good idea of how the process will perform out -of -world.
“At high temperatures, all metals have become a great droplet.”
Experiments were created at pure iron metal and iron-syilicone alloys at 1400c.
Creating building materials was one of the various challenges of establishing a Mars colony, but others, including food, water, power and communication.
NASAs MOXIE PROJECTMars has shown the ability to remove oxygen from the atmosphere of the planet, which means a welding experiment on site oxygen.
Dr. PownCeby has shown that experiments show that life on Mars may need more breakthroughs and more breakthroughs.
“Beyond the world of science fiction: People will go there and it is certainly easier to go there than the moon surface, which has many difficulties for Mars to deal with.”
“Now we have to start thinking and now we need to do research about what options when we get there.”
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