Microbial induced calcite precipitation can consolidate martian and lunar regolith simulants.

We demonstrate that Microbial Induced Calcite Precipitation (MICP) can be utilized for creation of consolidates of Martian Simulant Soil (MSS) and Lunar Simulant Soil (LSS) in the form of a 'brick'. A urease producer bacterium, Sporosarcina pasteurii, was used to induce the MICP process fo...

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Main Authors: Rashmi Dikshit, Nitin Gupta, Arjun Dey, Koushik Viswanathan, Aloke Kumar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266415