Harbin Institute of Technology has developed a "solar furnace" that may be able to "bake bricks and build houses" on the moon.

The reporter learned from Harbin Institute of Technology that the team for extraterrestrial environmental physics and intelligent detection of the university's national major science and technology infrastructure "Space Environment Ground Simulation Facility" has developed a new type of solar concentrator, which may in the future melt and sinter lunar soil into "lunar bricks," helping lunar construction "use local materials." This is a reflective compensation system composed of three special mirrors, capable of precisely concentrating sunlight like a "magnifying glass," raising the focal point temperature to 892 degrees Celsius in outdoor field tests. The related results were published online on the 30th in the academic journal Engineering.