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In a major advancement toward sending astronauts to Mars, a toaster-sized instrument aboard the Jet Propulsion Laboratory-managed Perseverance rover successfully extracted oxygen from the atmosphere of the Red Planet, NASA officials announced Wednesday.
The feat was accomplished by an instrument known as the Mars Oxygen In- Situ Resource Utilization Experiment, or MOXIE. Download our mobile app for iOS or Android to get the latest breaking news and local stories.
The equipment utilized the Martian atmosphere, which is 96% carbon-dioxide, and extracted 5 grams of oxygen. That s roughly 10 minutes of breathable oxygen for an astronaut.
“This is a critical first step at converting carbon dioxide to oxygen on Mars,” said Jim Reuter, associate administrator of NASA s Space Technology Mission Directorate.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - NASA has logged another extraterrestrial first on its latest mission to Mars: converting carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere into pure, breathable oxygen, the U.S. space agency said on Wednesday.
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Remember all those terraforming books you used to read, all those movies you used to watch? Well, at least part of them is no longer science fiction, as for the first time ever, a human-made machine was capable of generating oxygen on another planet. 1 photo
It is one of the many tasks the Perseverance rover has to complete on Mars. Aside from launching helicopters and gathering samples for a future mission to bring back to Earth, the rover is also used to generate oxygen where there is none. And on April 20, as the world was captivated by the Ingenuity helicopter, it did.