{"id":85050,"date":"2018-11-23T19:22:36","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T03:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/these-precision-parts-3d-printed-from-fake-moon-dust-bring-us-one-step-closer-to-living-on-mars"},"modified":"2018-11-23T19:22:36","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T03:22:36","slug":"these-precision-parts-3d-printed-from-fake-moon-dust-bring-us-one-step-closer-to-living-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/these-precision-parts-3d-printed-from-fake-moon-dust-bring-us-one-step-closer-to-living-on-mars","title":{"rendered":"These Precision Parts 3D-Printed From Fake Moon Dust Bring Us One Step Closer to Living on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/these-precision-parts-3d-printed-from-fake-moon-dust-bring-us-one-step-closer-to-living-on-mars2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mars is lacking in the vast supply of natural resources we\u2019ve come to rely on here on Earth, and astronauts attempting to colonize, or even just visit, the red planet can only bring a limited supply of materials with them. Learning to make do with what Mars has to offer is one of the biggest challenges of visiting our nearest neighbor, but the results of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/spaceinimages\/Images\/2018\/11\/3D-printed_ceramic_parts_made_from_lunar_regolith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European Space Agency\u2019s latest 3D-printing experiments<\/a> prove it isn\u2019t impossible.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve sent probes and rovers to Mars, but to date it\u2019s only been a one-way trip. Our knowledge of what Mars is made from is limited to what Spirit and Opportunity can learn from samples, and studying Martian meteorites that have made their way to Earth. Like our moon, if there\u2019s one thing Mars isn\u2019t lacking, it\u2019s dust. So as a stand in for genuine Mars ingredients, researchers have turned to a simulated version of lunar soil, also known as lunar regolith.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/these-precision-parts-3d-printed-from-fake-moon-dust-br-1830612448\">https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/these-precision-parts-3d-printed-from-fa...1830612448<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mars is lacking in the vast supply of natural resources we\u2019ve come to rely on here on Earth, and astronauts attempting to colonize, or even just visit, the red planet can only bring a limited supply of materials with them. Learning to make do with what Mars has to offer is one of the biggest [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}