News Desk: Oxygen is the main crisis in conducting human missions outside the Earth. For this, water is sought at the destination before the future expedition is successful. However, the good news is that the mission of astronauts to Mars will be easier! It has been possible to create oxygen there.
NASA’s Perseverance, the US space agency, has set a new record by creating oxygen from the red planet’s thin carbon dioxide-filled atmosphere. The rover recently flew the first flight out of Earth by flying a helicopter ‘Ingenuity’ on Mars. This time another success came.
Perseverance has a device in the shape of a small gold box. It’s called the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment. Oxygen is made with this device. Initially five grams of oxygen was made.
This amount of oxygen is needed for an astronaut to breathe for 10 minutes on Mars. It is also possible to make 10 grams of oxygen per hour with the help of moxy. This oxygen will be created by filtering the air of Mars. There is no need to worry about rocket fuel. In the future, NASA is thinking of sending more high-powered moxies to create oxygen in the mission to send people to the red planet.
Source: Daily Mail.