Scientists come up with a method to make oxygen from moon dust

The moon is coque iphone 6s tigrou covered in fine, delicate dust called regolith which sticks amazon coque iphone 6s apple to absolutely everything and causes all sorts of technical problems. But coque iphone 5s filles it is an coque strass huawei p20 lite abundant resource, and plans for making use of it include melting it with lasers to use for 3D printing or packing it into bricks to build habitats. Now, the European Space Agency (ESA) has come up with a different use for the tricky substance: Turning it into oxygen which could be used by lunar explorers coque iphone 5s verre de vin for breathing and coque iphone 8 plus fun for the production of fuel.

Moon regolith coque huawei p20 lite couple is known to contain about 40 to 50% oxygen by coque iphone 7 décapsuleur weight, but it is bound in the form of oxides so it’s not immediately usable. Researchers at the European Space Research coque iphone 8 plus fourrure and Technology Centre (ESTEC) have been investigating ways coque lacoste huawei p20 lite to extract this oxygen using a technique called coque huawei p20 lite pug molten coque iphone hybrid salt coque iphone 5s animaux panda electrolysis. The regolith is placed in a metal basket along with molten calcium chloride salt and heated to a high temperature, then an electric current is passed through it so the oxygen can coque iphone how i coque huawei p20 lite crocodile met your mother be extracted. A bonus of this method is that it also produces usable metal alloys as a by product.

Artist impression of activities in a Moon Base. Power generation from solar amazon coque iphone xs max cells, food production in greenhouses and construction using mobile 3D printer rovers. ESA P. Carril

This technique was originally developed by the company Metalysis, which wanted a way to extract the coque iphone 5c fcb metal alloys and considered oxygen the by product. But scientists realized they could apply coque iphone 7 et 7s the technique to moon exploration. student Beth Lomax of the University of Glasgow explained in a statement. “So we had to redesign the ESTEC version coque iphone 6 je peux pas j’ai poney to be able to kate spade coque iphone 5s have the oxygen available to measure. The lab team was very helpful in getting it installed and operating safely.”

Now the researchers are considering how these metal alloys might also be useful for lunar explorers. “The production process leaves behind a tangle of different metals,” ESA research fellow Alexandre Meurisse said. “And this is another useful line of research, to see what are the most useful alloys that could be produced from them, and what kind of applications could they be put to. Could coque de telephone le roi lion huawei p20 lite they be 3D printed coque iphone jagermeister directly, for example, or coque iphone 6 jdr would they require refining The precise combination of metals will depend on where on the Moon the regolith is acquired from there would be significant regional differences.”

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