Solar wind fuel extractor

> How would you do this?
>
> Electromagnetic funnel? Physical mylar funnel?
>
> What kind of concentrations do you get of these
> gases per m^3?
>
> I'm not sure that the fuel refining process is going
> to be a
> showstopper.
>
> I once thought of scooping Xe out of the atmosphere
> of Mars. I
> thought we could send a probe there, use atmospheric
> braking and
> scoop during the braking, and then return on a
> slower trajectory
> back to cislunar space.
>
> I don't think you would get enough volume of gases
> during the
> braking procedure.
>
> So I got stumped on how to keep the scoop in the
> atmosphere long
> enough to collect the gases and still return to
> cisluanr space. Any
> ideas on how to do that?
>
> TangoMan
>
The genesis mission is already collecting solar wind
and seeking out some of the answers to your question,
the official site is at
http://www.genesismission.org/.

However a much better technical site that answers your
questions is at: http://www.gps.caltech.edu/genesis/.
I am still trying to digest this website and prolly
will for a few weeks to come.

As for xenon, you don't need to go as far as Mars for
that, the Moon is actually a decent source of it thanx
to all the collecting it has done for the past few
thousand years of the solar wind.

Ryan