Oxygen and water for lunar explorers can be extracted from moon rocks

By Leah Crane

These satellite rocks could beryllium a root of h2o for aboriginal astronauts

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Future lunar explorers whitethorn beryllium capable to wring h2o from a stone. A prototype instrumentality has extracted h2o and oxygen from artificial satellite particulate efficiently and autonomously.

About fractional of the ungraded connected the satellite is made of silicon oregon robust oxides, which are affluent successful oxygen. Michèle Lavagna astatine the Polytechnic University of Milan successful Italy and her colleagues built and tested a instrumentality to extract that oxygen. Lavagna presented this enactment astatine a virtual gathering …

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