Tuesday 10 June 2014

Mars models: ERV, AWG, weather station and oven

I did a lot of modelling work these past couple days. It will be important having some core structures and machinery to play with as it will make programming core functionality much more fun.

My recent favourite is this earth return vehicle (ERV):



 A weather station. The arms will hold a variety of things later:


This is the atmospheric water generator (AWG). The insides make sense! Tubing connects an evaporator, condenser, compressor, pump, and reservoir.


O rly? Did you know that if you put up a big dome on Mars to capture sunlight, some water moisture rises from the regolith (dirt) into the air? The AWG captures that moisture.

I also made an oven but didn't bother with a render. This is another water strategy for life on Mars: trucks can dump dirt into the oven and it bakes the water out of it.

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