Engineers investigate a simple, no-bake recipe to make bricks from Martian soil

Explorers planning to settle on Mars might be able to turn the planet’s soil into bricks without needing to use an oven or additional ingredients. Instead, they would need to apply pressure to compact the soil–the equivalent of a blow from a hammer.

from Engineering and Construction News – ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170427091723.htm

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