{"id":1049352,"date":"2022-09-01T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1049352"},"modified":"2022-09-01T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T07:00:00","slug":"nasas-perseverance-mars-rover-has-made-oxygen-7-times-in-exploration-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1049352","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#039;s Perseverance Mars Rover Has Made Oxygen 7 Times In Exploration Milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stefanie Waldek reports via Space.com: Led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) is a small instrument on the Perseverance rover that&#8217;s designed to transform carbon dioxide, which comprises some 96% of the atmosphere on Mars, into breathable oxygen. Oxygen, of course, is crucial for a human mission to Mars. Since February 2021, the device has run seven times, each time producing about 0.2 ounces (6 grams) of oxygen per hour. That&#8217;s on par with the abilities of small trees here on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>MOXIE has now operated in a variety of conditions on Mars, both day and night, through all four seasons. The researchers expect that a version of the instrument approximately 100 times larger than MOXIE could potentially create breathable oxygen for future astronauts who visit the Red Planet. If explorers can&#8217;t make their own oxygen on Mars, supplies from Earth would take up valuable mass on a spacecraft. Furthermore, MOXIE&#8217;s products could also be used as an ingredient for rocket fuel &#8212; pretty crucial to ensuring the mission isn&#8217;t one-way. A rocket would need 33 to 50 tons (30 to 45 metric tons) of liquid oxygen propellant in order to launch humans off Mars. &#8220;This is the first demonstration of actually using resources on the surface of another planetary body, and transforming them chemically into something that would be useful for a human mission,&#8221; MOXIE deputy principal investigator Jeffrey Hoffman, a professor of the practice in MIT&#8217;s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and a former NASA astronaut, said in a statement. &#8220;It&#8217;s historic in that sense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The research has been published in the journal Science Advances.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<div class=\"share_submission\">\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=NASA's+Perseverance+Mars+Rover+Has+Made+Oxygen+7+Times+In+Exploration+Milestone%3A+https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F3AFKLna\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/twitter_icon_large-1.png\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F22%2F08%2F31%2F234245%2Fnasas-perseverance-mars-rover-has-made-oxygen-7-times-in-exploration-milestone%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/facebook_icon_large-1.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/science.slashdot.org\/story\/22\/08\/31\/234245\/nasas-perseverance-mars-rover-has-made-oxygen-7-times-in-exploration-milestone?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\">Read more of this story<\/a> at Slashdot.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Slashdot &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/science.slashdot.org\/story\/22\/08\/31\/234245\/nasas-perseverance-mars-rover-has-made-oxygen-7-times-in-exploration-milestone?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NASA&#8217;s Perseverance Mars Rover Has Made Oxygen 7 Times In Exploration Milestone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stefanie Waldek reports via Space.com: Led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) is a small instrument on the Perseverance rover that&#8217;s designed to transform carbon dioxide, which comprises some 96% of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1049352\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1049353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,110],"tags":[100],"class_list":["post-1049352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slashdot","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-slashdot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1049352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1049353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1049352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1049352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1049352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}