Occupy Mars

Team Members:

• Charbel Salameh
• Joe Hadchity
• Abdulaziz Jalloul
• Amar Jalloul
• Nour-Joseph Abraham

Challenge:”Outfitting a Mars Habitat: A 3d print challenge”

Solution Title:

“Live Don’t Survive”

Mars is an unforgiving place and surviving and adapting to the harsh lifestyle is quite the challenge.

This is why we have found different solutions to different problems that will make life on Mars a lot more easier.

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Summary of the Project

Wheel & Tools

3dVarius Violin

Water Extraction

Hydroponic System

Improves the rover’s wheel and creates tools for everyday life

Provides food for long term missions

Entertains astronauts and generates electricity.

Extracts water from martian soil and provides oxygen and hydrogen

Hydroponic System:

• Planting without using toxic martian soil which contains ferric oxide
• Use 3d-printed tubes and net pots to grow plants using limited amounts of water

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3D Varius Violin:

• Living on Mars is very boring and can have devastating effects on mental health. This violin will entertain astronauts.
• Using Piezoelectricity, we can generate energy from music vibrations and convert it from AC to DC and connect it to a system

Water Extraction & Hydrolysis System:

• Martian soil contains on average 10% water. Using a 3D printed Concrete oven, we can extract this water from the soil and condense it into pure distilled water.
• This water can be used in a hydrolysis system that can create oxygen for breathing and hydrogen for fuel from the H2O molecule.

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Rover’s Wheel:

• Improved the wheel to absorb shock and support rough surfaces.
• Create traces that will help track the way back home
• It can also convert kinetic energy to electric energy using a stator..

Tools:

• We designed a tool that combines an icebreaker, pickaxe, and a hammer with a detachable flashlight on the bottom of the handle.