书目名称 | Use of Extraterrestrial Resources for Human Space Missions to Moon or Mars |
编辑 | Donald Rapp |
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概述 | Examines the costs of implementing in situ resource utilization on the Moon and Mars.Provides a complete review of the field of extraterrestrial resources with independent analyses that are not part o |
丛书名称 | Springer Praxis Books |
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描述 | This book carries out approximate estimates of the costs of implementing ISRU on the Moon and Mars. It is found that no ISRU process on the Moon has much merit. ISRU on Mars can save a great deal of mass, but there is a significant cost in prospecting for resources and validating ISRU concepts. Mars ISRU might have merit, but not enough data are available to be certain. .In addition, this book provides a detailed review of various ISRU technologies. This includes three approaches for Mars ISRU based on processing only the atmosphere: solid oxide electrolysis, reverse water gas shift reaction (RWGS), and absorbing water vapor directly from the atmosphere. It is not clear that any of these technologies are viable although the RWGS seems to have the best chance. An approach for combining hydrogen with the atmospheric resource is chemically very viable, but hydrogen is needed on Mars. This can be approached by bringing hydrogen from Earth or obtaining water from near-surface water deposits in the soil. Bringing hydrogen from Earth is problematic, so mining the regolith to obtain water seems to be the only way to go. This will require a sizable campaign to locate and validate useable wa |
出版日期 | Book 20131st edition |
关键词 | Compressing and Purifying CO2; ISRU; In situ Resource Utilization ISRU; NASA Human Mission; Near-Surface |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32762-9 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-642-44274-2 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-642-32762-9 |
copyright | Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013 |