Making Metal on Mars: In-Situ Resource Utilization for Martian Settlements
2025-09-07
Transporting metals from Earth to Mars is prohibitively expensive. Researchers from Swinburne University of Technology and CSIRO are exploring in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) by producing metals from Martian regolith. They've successfully produced iron using a regolith simulant, paving the way for sustainable metal production on Mars and potentially revolutionizing metallurgy on Earth.