We're talking fuels and fertilizers required for the development of life-support systems on the Red Planet.
The system could play a major role in the development of life-support systems on Mars, as well as the feed-stock and base chemicals necessary for processing fuels, building materials, and fertilizers.is primarily comprised of carbon dioxide that can be split to produce oxygen and its pressure is favorable for plasma ignition, conditions on the Red Planet could be almost ideal for in-situ resource utilization by plasmas.
In particular, the atmospheric composition, the ambient pressure, and temperature on Mars - all play in favor of a plasma process. An engineering challenge also arises in the picture as the concept is to be done with a compact and lightweight device. "We will need to optimize the reactor and show that it can deliver high rates of production of molecules per kilogram of instrumentation sent to space," adds Guerra."Any gram and any cubic centimeter we can spare in a space mission are important," says Guerra. "Oxygen is key to creating a breathing environment, of course.
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