Meteoritic steel as a construction resource on Mars |
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| Authors: | Geoffrey A. Landis |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Faculty of Geoengineering, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Prawocheńskiego 15, 10-720 Olsztyn, Poland;2. Faculty of Civil Engineering, Environmental and Geodetic Sciences, Koszalin University of Technology, ?niadeckich 2, 75-453 Koszalin, Poland;2. University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, United States;3. Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States;4. University of Hawai''i, Institute for Astronomy, Honolulu, HI, United States;5. NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States;6. Grainflow Dynamics, Inc., Livermore, CA, United States |
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| Abstract: | In the long term, settlement of Mars will require local refining of industrial and construction materials. One of the most significant industrial materials is steel. It is proposed that steel can be harvested on Mars in the form of reduced iron available on the surface from meteoric nickel–iron. This may be one of the most easily available resources on Mars. |
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