The slotxoUnited States Space Agency or NASA (NASA) revealed the latest developments in the Mars exploration program, indicating that the Personnel probe (Perseverance) can convert carbon dioxide on Mars or Red Planet (Red Planet) to become oxygen gas successfully. This is an important milestone for future human transmission to Mars.
NASA explains that The oxygen generation device named Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) about the size of a bread oven. Was installed on the probe And began to work to produce oxygen at the rate of 5.4 grams per hour This is the amount that helps astronauts survive about 10 minutes of life on Mars.
The red star's atmosphere contains approximately 96% of the carbon dioxide, which MOXIE uses a method of separating oxygen (O2) atoms from carbon dioxide (CO2) by heating up to 800 degrees Celsius.
Jim Reuters, NASA's space technology program supervisor, said MOXIE had to undergo a series of tests. But the preliminary results are satisfactory And create hope for the goal of sending humans to Mars in the future In which to do so It requires a massive oxygen generation device weighing about 1 ton, which can generate about a ton of oxygen for astronauts to live on Mars for about a year, and another 25 tonnes for fuel to return to Earth.
NASA said the MOXIE was part of a new technology test program on Mars, including the Ingenuity mini-helicopter attached to the Persecution probe. And started a test flight three days ago In which if this project is successful These technologies will be applied for further exploration of Mars.
