New innovations to support the Mars mission with a particular focus on transport vehicles and living spaces or habitats are in sight after NASA endorsed recommendations of multi-disciplinary, university research institutes to build technologies for a sustained human existence on the Red Planet.
The new innovations expect to make stronger Mars living spaces and lighter vehicles utilizing carbon nanotube as the fundamental material. The need will be the invention of self-sustaining investigation or exploration mission capacities with Earth-independent elements.
"NASA is building up STRIs to research and exploit forefront progresses in innovation with the potential for revolutionary impact on future aviation capabilities," said Steve Jurczyk, associate administrator for NASA's in Washington-based Space Technology Mission Directorate. Each STRI will be conceded $15 million for their innovation missions. As per planettechnews.
In the meantime, the University of Central Florida (UCF) is the partner with NASA in extracting metals from the Martian soil.Professor Sudipta Seal, the interim chair of UCF's Materials Science and Engineering program has proposed feeding these metals into a 3-D printer to make the segments of a human habitat, hardware or electronics, and ship parts. "It's basically utilizing added substance producing strategies to make constructible pieces. UCF is teaming up with NASA to comprehend the science behind it," said Seal as per ucf
As indicated by the plan with NASA, more research will be led on molten regolith electrolysis to know the examples by which metal minerals are refined. Martian soil called as regolith will be feed into a chamber. Warming the chamber to almost 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit will lead to an electrolysis that will yield oxygen and liquid metals vital for the human space exploration.
Organizations like NASA, SpaceX, Mars One, that are pointing human missions to Mars have an agreement that Mars exploration will require more assets or resources inside Mars contrasted with expensive transportation from Earth. That point of view makes this research important.
