{"id":10378,"date":"2022-09-06T12:52:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T07:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polscienceweb.com\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=10378"},"modified":"2022-09-05T12:55:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T07:25:58","slug":"nasas-instrument-successfully-makes-oxygen-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/polscienceweb.com\/index.php\/portfolio\/nasas-instrument-successfully-makes-oxygen-on-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"Nasa&#8217;s instrument successfully makes oxygen on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><strong>MOXIE, for the first time, utilized the resources in a planet&#8217;s atmosphere to meet human needs<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2022-09-06T12:52:00+05:30\">6th September 2022<\/time><\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:14px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-verse\" style=\"font-size: 18.5px; text-align: justify;\">\n<summary class=\"wo-block-verse\" style=\"font-size: 18.5px; text-align: center;\">Read more<br><br><\/summary>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-verse\" style=\"font-size: 18.5px; text-align: justify;\"\n><strong>MOXIE<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>(Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment)<\/strong>&nbsp;was sent with NASA&#8217;s Perseverence rover. It is made by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It has produced oxygen on Mars with resources from the planet&#8217;s atmosphere. Carbon dioxide makes up approx 96% of the gas in Mars&#8217; atmosphere (Oxygen is only 0.13%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-verse\" style=\"font-size: 18.5px; text-align: justify;\"\n>MOXIE makes oxygen like a tree does. It inhales carbon dioxide and exhales oxygen. The lunchbox-sized instrument produced&nbsp;<strong>6 grams of oxygen per hour<\/strong>, similar to a moderate-sized tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-verse\" style=\"font-size: 18.5px; text-align: justify;\"\n>The project can be scaled up to continuously produce oxygen &#8220;at the rate of several hundred trees&#8221; before human missions. On this scale, it can also fuel the rocket to bring the astronauts back to Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2022\/aug\/31\/nasa-moxie-instrument-successfully-makes-oxygen-on-mars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOXIE, for the first time, utilized the resources in a planet&#8217;s atmosphere to meet human&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10358,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","portfolio-category":[428,426,448],"class_list":["post-10378","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio-category-428","portfolio-category-newsfeed","portfolio-category-september-2022"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nasa&#039;s instrument successfully makes oxygen on Mars<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"MOXIE makes oxygen like a tree does. 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