3D printing using mars soil on red planet

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Research is going on to use red planet's soil as 3D printing Material.

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making things on mars using mars's soil can be a boon for future mars missions.

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Amit Bandyopadhyay, a professor at the Washington State University School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, and his team

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used simulated crushed Martian regolith to demonstrate its capabilities as a 3D-printing material.

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This research can extremely reduce Mars Mission cost by reducing payloads.

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We can't carry everything from Earth, also if we forget something we can't come back.

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The Research was published on July 24TH on International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology.

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