Many countries and commercial organizations have shown great interest in constructing Martian base. In-situ resource utilization (ISRU) provides a cost-effective way to achieve this ambitious goal. In this paper, we proposed to use Martian soil simulant to produce fiber to satisfy material requirement for the construction of Martian base. The composition, melting behavior and fiber forming process of soil simulant was studied, and continuous fiber with a maximum strength of 1320 MPa was obtained on a spinning facility. The findings of this study demonstrate the feasibility of ISRU to prepare Martian fiber from the soil on the Mars, offering a new way to get key materials for the construction of Martian base.
@article{arxiv.2401.06223,
title = {Production of Martian fiber by in-situ resource utilization strategy},
author = {Ze-Shi Guo and Dan Xing and Xiong-Yu Xi and Cun-Guang Liang and Bin Hao and Xiaojia Zeng and Hong Tang and Huaican Chen and Wen Yin and Peng Zhang and Kefa Zhou and Qingbin Zheng and Peng-Cheng Ma},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.06223},
year = {2024}
}