NASA wants to create rocket fuel
NASA seems to have finally found the most practical and unexpected solution to achieve the mission to Mars by creating their own fuel there
The creativity of NASA engineers and scientists knows no limits. It is imminent that a trip to Mars is getting closer but there is a small inconvenience that has not yet been solved well that is the supply of fuel for the explorers to return home.
The fact of carrying enough gasoline to guarantee the trip return complicates the logistics of any mission. However, it seems that they have finally come up with the most practical and unexpected solution: to create their own fuel there.
But what is more eloquent is that in reality everything would be created from the soil of the surface of Mars. Where the project leader with the space agency, Kurt Leucht, explains the general details of the process developed under the name of dust to thrust.
Scientists will search the Martian soil for sources of hydrogen and oxygen to separate them by chemical processes and from there create the fuel. The idea is to first send a series of robots to investigate the few areas with water on Mars and start with the first stages of this procedure.
Although we are years away from seeing the results, without a doubt the conception is significant and very interesting. Each extra kilogram of material on a mission to Mars requires burning 225 kilograms of fuel, so NASA’s ingenuity is not at all negligible.
L.Sáenz
Source: FayerWayer
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