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Engineers Investigate a Simple, No-Bake Recipe to Make Bricks from Martian Soil
Explorers planning to settle on Mars might be able to turn the planet’s red soil into bricks without needing to use an oven or additional ingredients. Instead, they would just need to apply pressure to compact the soil—the equivalent of a blow from a hammer. These are the findings of a study published in Nature…
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| May 1, 2017 | Engineers Investigate a Simple, No-Bake Recipe to Make Bricks from Martian Soil by jameslk | 107 | 59 |
