Long Term Colonization Needs Metals Like Aluminum From Lunar Soil
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#6FMN5)
Critical challenges and technology development for colonizing and developing the moon are being performed. This includes getting oxygen, water, and metals like Aluminum from the lunar soil. There is In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) related to water-ice and other materials in lunar Permanent Shadowed Regions (PSRs) and extracting O2 and metals (or metalloids) from regolith in ...