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Lunar Oxygen and Water Production Tech Tested
savuporo writes "NASA and its industry partners organized a two-week lunar in-situ resource utilization field test in Hawaii. The tested machines included a few different rovers and prototype plants for generating oxygen and water from lunar regolith.
Astrotoday has a picture gallery and a video report.
This follows on the heels of the recent ESA lunar robotics challenge event held on Tenerife, which tasked student teams to build a lunar robot that would be able to search for water ice in lunar polar craters."
It was just a single click to view the photo gallery (2 clicks to get to individual photos) and you couldn't even bother to do that. If /. had membership cards, I'd ask for yours.
I thought the test area resembled the surface of the moon to a large degree.
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If you demanded the hypothetical membership card of everyone who didn't RTFA, you'd be here alone.
What if I do the same thing, and I do get different results?
Because if there's one place on Earth that resembles the surface of the moon, it's Hawaii.
Well sure, parts of it do. It's a volcano you know, not all rainforests and beaches and sun-bronzed natives.
As to why they chose specifically Hawaii instead of some other location suitably representative, well, the answer is the rainforests, beaches, and sun-bronzed natives.
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That depends how large of an enclosure you have. They're not trying to give the moon an atmosphere, this is strictly for an indoor moon base.
Village idiot in some extremely smart villages.