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Is the surface of Mars (which makes it red) made of Iron Oxide? If so, can the O2 be extracted? If we could do that we'd have Oxygen (for us) and Iron (to build with).
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Conveniently powdered, ready for smelting.
http://webexhibits.org/causesofcolor/14C.html] The dust is the mineral "limonite," a brown iron oxide, the same mineral that forms most of the Martian surface
http://www.redcolony.com/features.php?n … ]Aluminium is http://www.alu-info.dk/Html/alulib/modu … htm]better behaved low temperature metal.
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Martian Atmosphere:
95.3 percent carbon dioxide -78.5 °C sublimes
0.2 percent oxygen -183 °C evaporates
1.6 percent argon -185.9 °C evaporates
2.7 percent nitrogen -195.9 °C evaporates
Freeze out CO2
Liquify the required O2.
Liquify some Argon to get breathable percentage ?
The nitrogen could be used to make ammonia fertilizer.
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