With Martian air, Dirt, and Sunshine, It Should be Possible to Make Iron on Mars - by spacewriter
In Australia, Swinburne professor Akbar Rhamdhani and his team began looking at ways to produce metal on Mars and recently published a. Basically, without assuming the existence of metal deposits on the Red Planet, they developed a process that would take processed air from the Martian atmosphere, dirt from the surface, and concentrated sunlight, and come up with a method to create metallic iron.
Given those resources and the results from MOXIE, Rhamdani’s team came up with a metal extraction process coupled with an oxygen generation plant based on the MOXIE design. The whole assembly would produce oxygen and iron alloy. Those could then be shaped into the metals needed for Mars colony infrastructure.
Rhamdhani points out the many uses for the resulting technology for future Mars inhabitants. “We would like to develop a metal extraction process on Mars that is truly utilizing in-situ resources—without bringing reactants from Earth—to support further human mission and development on Mars,” he said. “If you wanted to build something large on Mars without having to pay to launch everything from Earth , this could be a very valuable process.”, which is Australia’s National Science Agency.
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