Creating water and oxygen in Mars

This is the plan and implementation from the team First Humans on Mars (students in Robotics Club) for the “2018 PanHellenic Robotics Competition: Living on Mars”.

• In September 2015 NASA announced that had strong evidence that there is water on Mars in ice form.
• We could build power plants that would melt ice and rocks to create water and oxygen.
• Furthermore power plants would emit greenhouse gases that could warm the planets atmosphere.

Students proposal:

• A factory that conveys large ice cubes and rocks to a melting facility.
• A water pump that transfers water to the human habitats (Building instructions)
• The ice cubes are transported automatically (motion sensor)
• The water pump stops pumping water when the water tank is full automatically. (tilt sensor)

Outcomes:

• Presentation (in Greek)
• Leaflet (in Greek)
• Scratch program
• Photos from the construction and the stages of the competition