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Engineers Investigate a Simple, No-Bake Recipe to Make Bricks from Martian Soil
April 27, 2017
LA JOLLA, Calif., April 27 -- The University of California's San Diego campus issued the following news release:

Explorers planning to settle on Mars might be able to turn the planet's red soil into bricks without needing to use an oven or additional ingredients. Instead, they would just need to apply pressure to compact the soil--the equivalent of a blow from a hammer.

These are the findings of a study published in Nature Scientific Reports on April 27, 2017. The s . . .

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