In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) facilitates planetary exploration by drawing needed resources, such as water, from the local environment. This work presents a 3-step in-situ water recovery approach: 1) mining the soil using deep fluted auger, 2) extracting the water from soil within the flutes, and 3) discarding the soil before transporting the water to a main storage facility. Drilling in icy soil and ice has already been demonstrated in vacuum chambers by the authors. This paper focuses on the second critical step: water extraction from the icy soil or ice within the deep flutes. This paper reports on tests demonstrating efficient collection of water from ice-bearing soil under Mars conditions. The water recovery Mobile In Situ Water Extractor (MISWE) breadboard collected as much as 92% of the water initially present in the soil, and required as little as 0.9 Whr/g of energy (80% efficient compared to theoretical). The extraction process took approximately 40 min.
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