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No matter what they write about the Red Planet, whatever theories are built conspiracy therapists and ufologists, in reality, scientists are just slowly are preparing for the colonization of Mars, developing the necessary for this technologies and tools.
In particular, a team led by Kurt Leucht (NASA, software flights to other planets of the Solar systems) is currently developing a mining system water, oxygen and fuel from the Martian soil.
As it became known to reporters, this system called – In situ resource utilization (ISRU), which in Russian can be translated as “Local Resources Recycling Machine”. Though Kurt himself calls his brainchild a processing enterprise, and or rather, even a dust collection plant. Arriving on Mars, ISRU here it will begin to extract from regolith (a loose layer of dust on Krasnaya planet) water, then through electrolysis most of it will be divided into oxygen and hydrogen. Last chemical element the factory will connect with carbon, which in parallel with other tasks will begin to capture in the atmosphere of Mars, and thanks to this get methane – great rocket fuel for later space missions.
The ISRU system, as NASA scientists say, will go to Red planet before the colonization of its people, so astronauts can easily be on Mars, and then return to earth …
As you can see, there is no American corporation in the space plans nothing to bewilderment. Of course, in order to to go to Mars, much remains to be done, but with something, you have to start, as a rule, with a small one that will give rise to then a big one. This is just a dreamer. Elon Musk immediately takes the bull for horns: it’s gaining volunteers to fly to the Red Planet, then suddenly thinks about whether to drop hydrogen bombs on Mars in order to change the atmosphere there, and so on.
According to Kurt Leicht, ufologists and conspiracy theorists in their theories and assumptions have gone no further than Ilona Mask, only they, in unlike the American billionaire PR, there’s nothing at all do, only fantasize …
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