Journalist Report
05/01/2013
Nikolay Dzis-Voynarovskiy
While Petr is finalizing his geology report I would like to tell some
details of his experiment of extraxting water from 'martian' soil.
As we previously wrote, water will be a critical resource on Mars. It
is necessary for drinking, washing, cooking, producing rocket duel and
oxygen for breathing. It is possible to find an ice in a martian soil.
We are trying to simulate future searching and extracting water on
Mars here, at MDRS. Our geologist Petr Romanov determined best places
for taking samples in a desert, took samples of
soil and evaporated water from them.
During one of his experiments Petr evaporated 6 g of water from 3,5 kg
of soil in approximately 4 hours.
Petr Romanov and Nikolay Dzis-Voynarovskiy drank that water. It was
fine, we all are still alive :) but it has a distinctive sandy taste.