‘Martian petrol’, the idea of Spanish engineers to produce fuel on the red planet
Sending a manned mission to Mars is, right now, one of the big targets in the aerospace sector. But what’s the problem? Why have we not yet set foot on the Martian surface? Mainly because of the distance that separates us. It’s a lot further than we think, an average of about 225 million kilometers. To get to Mars we would need to load the aircraft with the necessary fuel […]