Now breath oxygen on Mars! NASA creates oxygen for 1st time on Mars

Washington DC, April 23: It seems like that creating a history has become a habit of NASA, as the space orgnisation has scripted another history, by converting carbon dioxide into oxygen on Mars's surface. Yes! On Mars surface. With that innovation, NASA has set another level of benchmark for other space organisations.

 

NASA yesterday took the social media wall and announced the major feat. The orgnisation has achieved this feat using a tiny, device called Moxie, an acronym for the Mars Oxygen In-situ Resource Utilisation Experiment. It is a golden box placed on the front side of the rover. MOXIE was covered with a gold coating so that the heat radiated does not harm the rover. MOXIE is also called a “Mechanical Tree” because just like the tree breathing technique, it inhales carbon dioxide and exhales oxygen.

 

 

This tiny box can produce 5.4 grams of oxygen in one hour. An astronaut can survive for 10 minutes with 5.4 grams of oxygen. According to the space agency, MOXIE is capable of generating ten grams of oxygen in one hour. Over the next two years, MOXIE is expected to extract oxygen nine more times. This innovation will also help NASA has the moto to send the first man on the Martine surface. Creating oxygen on mars will also build up the foundation for round-trip missions.

 

 

To produce oxygen, a tiny machine, first used its apparatus and capture atmospheric carbon dioxide, and then it uses its purification and separates oxygen atoms from carbon dioxide molecules.

 

 

 

Jim Reuter, associate director for NASA’s space technology mission directorate, said upon the achievement, “This is a critical first step at converting carbon dioxide to oxygen on Mars. Moxie has more work to do, but the results from this technology demonstration are full of promise as we move toward our goal of one-day seeing humans on Mars. Oxygen isn’t just the stuff we breathe. Rocket propellant depends on oxygen, and future explorers will depend on producing propellant on Mars to make the trip home.”

 

 

According to the scientists at MIT, a one-ton version of MOXIE is capable of producing twenty-five tonnes of oxygen. This comes a day after Nasa's Ingenuity robot took its first controlled helicopter flight on the Martian surface.

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