NASA has logged another extra-terrestrial first on its latest mission to Mars: converting carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere into pure, breathable oxygen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The unprecedented extraction of oxygen on Mars was achieved by a device called MOXIE aboard Perseverance, a six-wheeled science rover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
MOXIE is short for Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It produced about 5 grams of oxygen, equivalent to roughly 10 minutes\u2019 worth of breathing for an astronaut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
NASA is planning that future human missions would take scaled-up versions of Moxie with them to the Red Planet rather than try to carry all the oxygen needed to sustain them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mars’ atmosphere is dominated by carbon dioxide (CO\u2082) at a concentration of 96 per cent. The expectation is that it can produce up to 10 grams of O\u2082 per hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is the first extraction of a natural resource from the environment of another planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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