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Dr. Philip Metzger – Photo courtesy of Nick Russett<\/p><\/div>\n

Two researchers at the University of Central Florida were featured in an article<\/a> published by The Atlantic<\/a>\u00a0titled ‘The Low-Tech Way to Colonize Mars.”<\/p>\n

The article focuses on the research conducted by\u00a0Philip Metzger, Ph.D.<\/a>, an associate in planetary science research at the Florida Space Institute, and his team. Daniel Britt, Ph.D.<\/a>, professor in the Department of Physics<\/a>, is also featured.\u00a0The article, written by Sarah Zhang, was posted on October 18, 2016.<\/p>\n

The Low-Tech Way to Colonize Mars<\/h1>\n

NASA researchers are modeling Martian settlements after early American colonists.<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic<\/em><\/p>\n

Philip Metzger has been playing with mud. Experimenting, you could say, as he\u2019s a planetary scientist at the University of Central Florida and co-founder of NASA\u2019s Swamp Works lab. In any case, his lab has been stuffing Martian clay into cupcake decorating bags and extruding it into what Metzger himself admits sometimes look like an \u201canimal dropping.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

But one man\u2019s cupcake decorating with mud is another man\u2019s prototyping of 3D-printing on Mars. And 3D-printing could solve the single biggest hurdle to a crewed Mars expedition: the cost of transporting everything humans need to survive on the red planet.<\/em><\/p>\n

NASA is all aboard the 3D-printing train. Last year, it unveiled winners<\/a> of its first 3D-printed Mars habitat design challenge, and the architectural renders of the\u00a0winning entries<\/a> were all sleek and futuristic, as renders of unbuilt buildings always are (see above). In reality, the current state of the art for Martian 3D-printing looks more like the clay logs Metzger has been documenting on Twitter.<\/em><\/p>\n

Read the full article on The Atlantic’s website.<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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