‘Cosmic Concrete’ to be Made from Astronaut Blood and Mars Dust


Scientists have announced that more durable materials can be obtained from concrete by mixing dust from places such as the Moon and Mars outside the Earth with astronaut blood, sweat or tears.

Scientists have long been like Mars and the Moon. Living on extraterrestrial planets and establishing new colonies looking for ways. For this goal, which requires enormous costs and extensive research, an astonishing method has been developed by scientists at NASA.

NASA researchers are using astronauts to build structures on different planets like Mars. bodily fluids such as blood, sweat or tears, He explained that they can combine with the dust on the planet to obtain a material that is harder than concrete.

If urea is added to the mix, the material becomes stronger than concrete.

Stating that living on another planet can only be possible with life on land, scientists said that building materials such as concrete would be needed for this, but because it would be extremely costly to transport materials from Earth to different planets. that it is almost impossible states.

Scientists started researching to find alternative solutions for this and found that concrete can be obtained by combining Mars or Moon dust with body fluids. For this found in human blood plasma Benefiting from albumin (HSA) researchers in their experiments at least as strong as concrete managed to obtain a material.

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Then the addition of urea to this mixture makes the concrete stronger The researchers who discovered it stated that in their study published in Materials Today Bio, these exotic biocomposites can be 3D printed, and the materials will be enough for the crew setting out on a 72-week Mars mission.