Scientists say they have come up with a potential way to make oxygen on Mars

 CNN, Dec. 8, 2020

(CNN)In a high-stakes mission that could take five years to complete, NASA wants to land astronauts on Mars in the 2030s.

Transporting enough oxygen and fuel on a spacecraft to sustain the mission for anywhere near that length of time, however, isn't currently viable.

The way NASA plans to address this problem is by deploying MOXIE, or the Mars Oxygen in Situ Resource Utilization Experiment. This system is in the testing phase on the Mars Perseverance rover, which launched in July. The apparatus will convert the carbon dioxide that makes up 96% of the gas in the red planet's' atmosphere into oxygen. 

 

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