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Photo: 3-D printed ice igloo wins 3D printed habitat contest
Ice as 3D-printing material NASA recently picked this 3-D printed igloo as winner of their 3D printed habitat contest. We previously discussed (in our earlier blog article here) how 3D printing and 3D printers would be very important in Mars exploration (see our earlier Mars photo overload post here). A 3D printer is a miniature factory, and potentially a self-replicating one at that (provided you can find the raw materials). So you can send one 3D printer over and bootstrap the entire Martian manufacturing complex. Ice is present on Mars, and in most places the temperatures are cold enough to remain in the ice phase permanently, so it makes sense as a 3D printed material. Unfortunately, 3D-printers aren’t quite self-replicating yet, although they are getting close. So, in practice, you’d still need to send over a few parts, particularly some electronics components. Nevertheless, it seems quite possible that ice could be used as a raw 3d-printing manufacturing material on Mars, at least in the early days as infrastructure was being built up.… Read the restRecent Posts
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