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October 12th, 2023
Image credit: PAVER Consortium
The European Space Agency’s Paving the road for large area sintering of regolith (PAVER) project has investigated the feasibility of melting regolith for lunar roadmaking.
Paved surfaces on the Moon, such as roads and landing pads, are possible using a sunlight-focusing Frensel lens to melt lunar regolith.
No word yet on patching potholes.
PAVER consortium consists of Germany’s BAM Institute of Materials Research and Testing with Aalen University in Germany, LIQUIFER Systems Group in Austria and Germany’s Clausthal University of Technology, with support from the Institute of Materials Physics in Space of the German Aerospace Center, DLR.
Image credit: PAVER consortium/LIQUIFER Systems Group
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