Re: Proposed sample return mission to Phobos

Henry Spencer wrote:
It's not *that* tightly bound. :-) My understanding is that it's not
likely to come out by itself, but getting most of out won't take a lot of
convincing.

Has anyone ever seriously designed equipment to do that? I was thinking that pulverising the rock down to sand to give a high surface area could be a good strategy, and then perhaps heating it with hydrogen, and then condensing out the water and recycling the hydrogen could work.
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