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Suitability of Martian Regolith as Material for Future Dwellings--An Investigation by Middle School Students in Collaboration with MIT and JEOL, USA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2019

N Miller
Affiliation:
Concord Middle School, Concord, MA, USA.
M Richmond
Affiliation:
Concord Middle School, Concord, MA, USA.
B Meagan
Affiliation:
Concord Middle School, Concord, MA, USA.
S Richardson
Affiliation:
Concord Middle School, Concord, MA, USA.
O Akubude
Affiliation:
Concord Middle School, Concord, MA, USA.
W Bao
Affiliation:
Concord Middle School, Concord, MA, USA.
R Li
Affiliation:
Concord Middle School, Concord, MA, USA.
K Dinner
Affiliation:
Concord Middle School, Concord, MA, USA.
H Griffin
Affiliation:
Concord Middle School, Concord, MA, USA.
D Shattuck*
Affiliation:
Concord Middle School, Concord, MA, USA. Laboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
F Martin Martinez
Affiliation:
Laboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Z Qin
Affiliation:
Laboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
M Buehler
Affiliation:
Laboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
K Kupwade-Patil
Affiliation:
Laboratory for Infrastructure Science and Sustainability, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
V Robertson
Affiliation:
JEOL USA, Peabody, MA, USA.
*
*Corresponding author: shattuck@MIT.EDU

Abstract

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Type
Microscopy Explorations
Copyright
Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 2019 

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[6]The authors thank the Laboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics, and the Laboratory for Infrastructure Science and Sustainability at MIT, Bradley Johnson, Connor Appel, and Michael Schweiger at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and the educational outreach of JEOL, USA.Google Scholar