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In another first, NASA s Perseverance rover generates oxygen on Mars – Spaceflight Now

If you would like to see more articles like this please support our coverage of the space program by becoming a Spaceflight Now Member. If everyone who enjoys our website helps fund it, we can expand and improve our coverage further. This view from the Perseverance rover’s navigation cameras shows the “Mars 2020” and “Perseverance” name plates on the vehicle’s robotic arm. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech In another first, an instrument inside NASA’s Perseverance rover has made oxygen out of carbon dioxide sucked in from the atmosphere of Mars, officials said Wednesday. The technology could help future astronauts “live off the land” by generating their own rocket fuel and breathing air.

How did Perseverance make oxygen on Mars?

How did Perseverance make oxygen on Mars? MOXIE converts carbon dioxide from the atmosphere with electrochemistry. Technicians at NASA s Jet Propulsion Laboratory lower the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) instrument into the belly of the Perseverance rover. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Two days after NASA scientists proved it’s possible to fly a helicopter in the thin Martian atmosphere, another team showed that it is also possible to convert that air into something future astronauts can breathe. This second of two “firsts” in a single week was done by a toaster-oven-sized instrument on the Perseverance rover called MOXIE (Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment), designed to test whether it is possible to make oxygen from carbon dioxide, the principal gas in the Martian atmosphere.

NASA s Perseverance Rover Makes Oxygen on Mars for First Time

Scientific American The technique could someday help astronauts sustainably live and work on the Red Planet April 22, 2021 Print NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover snapped this selfie with the Ingenuity helicopter on April 6, 2021. Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech and MSSS Advertisement NASA’s Perseverance rover just notched another first on Mars, one that may help pave the way for astronauts to explore the Red Planet someday. The rover successfully used its MOXIE instrument to generate oxygen from the thin, carbon dioxide-dominated Martian atmosphere for the first time, demonstrating technology that could both help astronauts breathe and help propel the rockets that get them back home to Earth.

NASA s Perseverance rover extracts oxygen from Mars | News

The test was carried out on Tuesday (20 th April), with a toaster-size, experimental instrument aboard Perseverance, called the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE), which accomplished the task. Reporting its success, NASA said the technology demonstration is just getting started – and it could pave the way for science fiction to become science fact.  NASA said that isolating and storing oxygen on Mars could help to power rockets that lift astronauts off the planets surface. Further to that, it is believed that such device may also provide breathable air for the astronauts themselves. “This is a critical first step at converting carbon dioxide to oxygen on Mars,” said Jim Reuter, Associate Administrator for STMD.

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