NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover Extracts First Oxygen From Red Planet

[soothsayer]

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NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover
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Another huge first: converting CO2 into oxygen on Mars. Working off the land with what’s already here, my MOXIE instrument has shown it can be done!

Future explorers will need to generate oxygen for rocket fuel and for breathing on the Red Planet.

NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover Extracts First Oxygen From Red Planet
mars.nasa.gov
https://t.co/9sjZT9KeOR

[electric_blue68]

1. Wow!!!!! Didn't know about this experiment.

That's amazing!

[soothsayer]

4. Me either!

[uponit7771]

2. Mars can get up to 70 degrees on the equator, nice ! Now all we need are the stomach eating aliens..

... and corporate stooges and ability to nuke it from orbit ... loved that movie.

[csziggy]

3. Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment

MOXIE

The Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment is better known as MOXIE. NASA is preparing for human exploration of Mars, and MOXIE will demonstrate a way that future explorers might produce oxygen from the Martian atmosphere for propellant and for breathing.

Tech Specs
Main Job To produce oxygen from the Martian carbon-dioxide atmosphere
Location Inside the rover (front, right side)
Mass 17.1 kilograms
Weight 37.7 pounds on Earth, 14.14 pounds on Mars
Power 300 watts
Volume 9.4 x 9.4 x 12.2 inches (23.9 x 23.9 x 30.9 centimeters)
Oxygen Production Rate Up to 10 grams per hour (At least 0.022 pounds per hour)
Operation Time Approximately one hour of oxygen (O2) production per experiment, which will be scheduled intermittently over the duration of the mission.

More: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/instruments/moxie/

[soothsayer]

5. Cool, thanks!