Scientists want to make space bricks out of human urine on Mars
Everything we need to build stuff would already be available on Mars.
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Everything we need to build stuff would already be available on Mars.
A biological approach coupled with a scalable casting method for bricks manufacturing presents a promising and highly sustainable potential route for in situ utilization of structural elements on extra-terrestrial habitats.
IISc and ISRO have collaborated to build the first bricks from Martian soil, which can be used to facilitate human settlements on Mars
In collaboration with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), a team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has developed a sustainab
This method makes the bricks less porous, which was a problem with previous Martian brick-making methods. "The bacteria seep deep into the pore spaces, using their own proteins to bind the particles together, decreasing porosity and resulting in stronger bricks," said Aloke Kumar, associate professor at IISc's Department of Mechanical Engineering and one of the paper's senior authors.