Stephen Petranek’s career of over 40 years in the publishing world is marked by numerous prizes and awards for excellent writing on science, nature, technology, politics, economics and more. He[…]
The trick to producing water for astronauts is to figure out how best to extract it from the soil and atmosphere.
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Stephen Petranek, author of How We’ll Live on Mars, details several of the methods a future team of colonists could employ in order to amass a drinking water supply on Mars. There’s plenty of water on the planet; the trick is extracting it from the soil and atmosphere. It’s a relief that producing water won’t be a major nuisance for the eventual Mars astronauts — that whole “unlivable barren wasteland” is a whole other story.