Space Bricks

Recently, researchers from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) developed a way to make bricks from Martian soil with the help of bacteria and urea.

• These ‘space bricks’ can be used to construct building-like structures on Mars that could facilitate human settlement on the red planet.

Advantage: This method ensures that the bricks are less porous, which was a problem with other methods used to make Martian bricks.