Sustaining human presence in space will require existing systems and vehicles to become more independent, incorporate intelligent autonomous operations, and take advantage of the local resources. Advances must be made in finding, extracting, and processing in-situ resources. This activity will address water extraction from Mars regolith. While the individual components to be used in this effort are well understood, the combination of the components into a working system has not been demonstrated. This activity will also test regolith remediation techniques for removal of perchlorates/sulfates.
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