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• Mining
  ...exploited for resources by [[Atmospheric processing|atmospheric mining]]. Mining is preceded by [[Mineralogical exploration|mineralogical exploration]], to ...al. Mechanisms for mineral concentrations on Mars are mostly hypothetical and the discovery of useful bodies of ore awaits the advent of Martian geologis
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• Smelting
  ...he oxide itself, but its dilution in other minerals, such as silica oxides and other metal oxides, often bound in complex [[minerals]]. What is needed ar ...se small-scale iron smelting is not required, only the melting of the iron and casting into bars.
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• Blast furnace
  ...lters. As the furnace was made taller in order to increase the temperature and yield, the carbon pick-up of the iron would increase to the point where it ...re and deposits additional carbon in it. This high-carbon alloy then melts and collects at the bottom of the furnace along with a layer of molten slag, wh
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• Indirect reduction of steel
  ...ron]], but not intended as a final product) is produced in a blast furnace and then has excess carbon removed in an oxygen furnace. ...ion is highly energetic and serves to agitate the molten metal (mixing it) and also heats it (molten pig iron comes out of the blast furnace at less then
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• Thorium
  ...rium Reactors]], [[Nuclear_thermal_propulsion|nuclear thermal propulsion]] and [[Ion_thruster#Pulsed_Fission_Fusion_.28PuFF.29|nuclear pulsed propulsion]] ...billion years, so the majority of the thorium that existed when the Earth and Mars were formed is still here (the planets are is 4.5 billion years old).
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• Mars Society Channel - YouTube
  ...ludes a number of crew videos taken at MDRS (Mars Desert Research Station) and prepared as a summary of crew activities at the end of their two week stay The relationship between the Marspedia categories and the #tags used in the video description field in the Mars Society Channel o
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• Water
  ...symbols:'' H₂O). Water is essential to all known forms of life, and its unique properties make it invaluable for most industrial processes. Whi ...hows evidence of extensive liquid water flowing on its surface in the past and it is the focus of many Mars missions to find out how this water has leaked
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