The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said on 22, the Mars Exploration Rover “Perseverance” continues to make history, yesterday successfully converted carbon dioxide into oxygen in the atmosphere of Mars, is the first time in another planet to create oxygen successfully.
Mars Exploration Rover “Perseverance” continues to make history
”Converting carbon dioxide to oxygen on Mars is a very important first step,” said Jim Reuter, NASA’s deputy space technology mission director.
”Perseverance is using the Mars Oxygen In situ resource utilization Experiment (MOXIE), designed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and built into its right front. resource utilization Experiment (MOXIE) to produce oxygen, this car battery-sized gold box using electricity and chemical properties to decompose carbon dioxide molecules, the successful production of oxygen.
Since carbon dioxide is composed of one carbon atom and two oxygen atoms, the byproduct of oxygen production in MOXIE is carbon monoxide.
MOXIE can not only produce oxygen for future astronauts on Mars to breathe, but also for future rocket return trips without hauling large amounts of oxygen from Earth as propellant, which is expected to pave the way for future human exploration.
MOXIE’s first report is to produce 5 grams of oxygen, which is equivalent to the amount an astronaut needs to breathe for 10 minutes to perform normal activities. MOXIE was originally designed to produce up to 10 grams of oxygen per hour, and engineers will now conduct more experiments to try to increase the output.
MOXIE to nickel alloy and other heat-resistant materials, can withstand temperatures of 800 degrees Celsius, the thin gold coating on top to ensure that it does not emit heat to cause damage to the car “Trail”.
MIT engineer Hecht (Michael Hecht) said that a one-ton version of MOXIE can produce about 25 tons of oxygen for the rocket to launch from Mars required.
Since 96 percent of the Martian atmosphere is carbon dioxide, making oxygen from the Martian atmosphere would be much more feasible than extracting ice from beneath the Martian surface to make oxygen.
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