Planet Mars records an amazing premiere with which NASA surprises the entire planet, one that many scientists have praised, especially as it comes as an achievement that deserves all these appreciations. NASA's Perseverance robot is currently on a long journey to the planet Mars, arriving there in February 2021, and it also contains metal parts that were manufactured using a 3D printer.
Planet Mars since 2012 it hosted another NASA robot that contained 3D printed ceramic parts, but now we are talking about metal parts made in this way, a truly impressive achievement for the American space agency. NASA engineers struggled a lot to produce these metal pieces for use in the robot that was sent to the planet Mars, but their work paid off for a truly impressive premiere.
Planet Mars: The EXTRAORDINARY premiere with which NASA surprises!
Planet Mars motivated NASA to try things that until now no one thought possible, but the American space agency showed us that when you really want to do something, you have a good chance of succeeding. The metal parts, 3D printed, by those from NASA, will be useful to the robot in its mission to explore the planet Mars more closely, but also to send the first soil samples from there to Earth, something that scientists are waiting for a lot.
“Build each feature layer by layer and soon you'll have a detailed part. These techniques allowed us to achieve low mass and high precision pointing that could not be achieved with conventional manufacturing. Flying these parts to Mars is a huge milestone that opens the door a little more for additive manufacturing in the space industry.”
Planet Mars it sometimes registers high temperatures on the surface, and the 3D printed pieces are designed to withstand without problems even in conditions like this, so NASA tried to make its robot as versatile as possible. Of course, only after the robot gets there, and spends a certain period of time on the planet Mars, will the first information about the usefulness of those parts come, so we have to see exactly what will happen.
Planet Mars it will be visited by people at some point, and these NASA experiments with 3D printing of metal parts could be of great help for the creation of future establishments there, but also on the moon.
