NY Post – NASA has logged another extraterrestrial first on its latest mission to Mars: converting carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere into pure, breathable oxygen, the US space agency said on Wednesday.
The unprecedented extraction of oxygen, literally out of thin air on Mars, was achieved Tuesday by an experimental device aboard Perseverance, a six-wheeled science rover that landed on the Red Planet Feb. 18 after a seven-month journey from Earth.
In its first activation, the toaster-sized instrument dubbed MOXIE, short for Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment, produced about 5 grams of oxygen, equivalent to roughly 10 minutes’ worth of breathing for an astronaut, NASA said.
Although the initial output was modest, the feat marked the first experimental extraction of a natural resources from the environment of another planet for direct use by humans.
h/t Dadof4
Yeah, and they’ll still make you wear a mask. lol
@ MJA
LOL
What if we send the Dems and globalists ahead on a scout mission?
They can have the whole damn planet to themselves. No guns, no pollution – nothin’
10 minutes worth of breathing oxygen, I wonder how long it took it to produce that much?
Unlike Earth, you’ll die the moment you take off your mask.
Excellent! EXCELLENT!! Maybe this’ll make Mars inhabitable by liberals since they have demonstrated repeatedly that their brains, such as they are, require far less oxygen than ours to survive.
Sent all liberals there so they’ll have a world they can rule over.
Next New Green Deal they’ll extract oxygen from cow flatulence to save earth.
NASA has accomplished its mission of increasing muslim self esteem and moved on to producing oxygen on Mars. And not just oxygen but breathable oxygen!!!
Unprecedented! Breathable oxygen!! These guys may break an arm patting themselves on the back for accomplishing something a dandelion has been doing for thousands of years.
“These guys may break an arm patting themselves on the back for accomplishing something a dandelion has been doing for thousands of years”
Wait… what? Watchu talkin’ ’bout? No dandelion has done it on Mars yet! It’s a feat that matters.
Dandelion trivia tip: You can make a salad out of their leaves, but it’ll be bitter after it blooms.
Probably used a Chinese-made compressor from Harbor Freight. I hope NASA used the 20% off coupon.
Mars is likely a dead planet because there are no active volcanoes, no oceans or large lakes and no appreciable magnetosphere bow shock to the sun’s radiation. Although, it’s possible growing plants. However the radiation may just kill them.
Best to move on to Venus and create manned floating laboratories, atmospheric docking stations. etc. in the upper atmosphere for any further exploration of our planetary neighbors. IMHO, it’s the better move.
PS:
Mars has CO2 levels at 95% (ours is at 0.04%) So, why isn’t it boiling hot at mars surface and upper atmosphere? Tell that to the Climate Crazed morons!
That’s good news!! Do us all a favor and hold the next democrat convention there!
Missed it by [that] much. And after it blooms you can make some pretty good wine from those blooms.
That accomplishment is about as valuable as chrome plating a dog turd.
Perfect planet for traitors.
Pelosi and AfLAC-AOC can bitch all the way to Phobos and Deimos.