NASA announce The Perseverance Mars mission’s robotic rover produced enough oxygen on Mars to keep an astronaut alive for three hours. The rover, which landed on Mars in February 2021, produced oxygen using the Mars Oxygen Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) instrument, which slowly converts carbon dioxide into oxygen.
Since arriving on the Red Planet, the microwave-sized device has produced 122 grams of oxygen. This is equivalent to the amount of oxygen the average person needs to survive for three hours, or the amount a small dog needs in 10 hours. This development creates an expectation among scientists that by using this technology, apparently in systems of greater efficiency and scale, human existence on the inhospitable planet Mars will be facilitated.
“We are proud to support advanced technology like MOXIE that can turn local resources into useful products for future exploration missions. By demonstrating this technology in real-world conditions, we are one step closer to a future in which astronauts live using the Martian soil,” says Trudy Curtis, Director of Technology Offerings in the Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
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