Scientists have created a Martian concrete – Interia

Today, January 14 (5:34)

Scientists have developed a new type of concrete that can be used to build various structures on the surface of Mars.

Can the Martian base will be built with concrete resulting from the soil of the Red Planet?

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The colonizers of the Red Planet have to live somewhere, and the best there had erected the buildings were made of local materials. Sending any building materials on Mars would be a serious waste of money and space for restricted capacitive rockets.

A team of researchers from Northwestern University under the leadership of Gianluca Cusatisa has developed an innovative Martian water instead of concrete using molten sulfur. After the merger of Martian soil, it gives a suitable building material. Interestingly, it is fully recyclable, so once produced, it can repeatedly be used to construct various structures.

The Martian concrete is resistant to acids, salt and low temperatures. It will also be served as shields from harmful cosmic rays, which will be exposed participants Mars mission.

Now, researchers are trying to give the Martian concrete one extremely important feature beyond Earth – resistance to fire. It is not known whether NASA will use this material in the planned missions to the Red Planet.

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