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Out Of Thin Air: NASA Rover Makes Oxygen From Martian Atmosphere
NPR ^
| April 22, 2021
| SCOTT NEUMAN JOE PALCA
Posted on 04/22/2021 10:25:17 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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04/22/2021 10:25:17 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
95% CO2? Not possible according to global warming doctrine, the planet would be molten rock.
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posted on
04/22/2021 10:27:20 AM PDT
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: BenLurkin
The Perseverance rover used an instrument known as MOXIE, or Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment, which super-heated the carbon dioxide to chemically cleave it, producing about 5 grams of pure O2 – about enough for an astronaut to breathe for 10 minutes, according to NASA.
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posted on
04/22/2021 10:28:13 AM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(The avg 911 response time is 23 mins; the response time of a .357 is 1400 ft/sec)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
04/22/2021 10:28:26 AM PDT
by
OttawaFreeper
("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
04/22/2021 10:29:39 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: BenLurkin
Headline: Scientists find answer to global warming.
CO2 scrubbers.
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posted on
04/22/2021 10:30:34 AM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: BenLurkin
Does Mars Oxygen have more or less calories ? LOL
To: BenLurkin
“MOXIE isn’t just the first instrument to produce oxygen on another world,” Trudy Kortes, director of technology demonstrations with NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate said in a statement. She called it the first technology of its kind to help future missions “live off the land” of another planet.
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“That’s the Atmosphere Processor?”
“Yep, that’s it. Remarkable piece of machinery, completely automated. You know, we manufacture those, by the way.”
―Ripley and Burke, regarding the APP on LV-426 (from Aliens)
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04/22/2021 10:31:08 AM PDT
by
Flick Lives
(“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
To: BenLurkin
Oxygen produced on Mars could also be used in combination with rocket fuel to propel rockets returning to Earth. NASA estimates that 25 metric tons of oxygen would be needed for such a rocket carrying four astronauts. An industrial-sized MOXIE-style instrument for use on Mars might weigh about a metric ton, Hecht said last year. And Elon Musk says, I'm on it like a fly on ----
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04/22/2021 10:32:57 AM PDT
by
Pollard
To: BenLurkin
electrochemically split oxygen atoms from carbon dioxide moleculesNow if they could only do this on earth all the yentas might stop yenting.
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posted on
04/22/2021 10:33:00 AM PDT
by
monkeyshine
(live and let live is dead)
To: BenLurkin
With a byproduct of carbon monoxide that they release back into Mars atmosphere , poor Martians ,LOL
To: BenLurkin
The Martian atmosphere is about 95% carbon dioxide. ??
And the Planet hasn’t exploded or melted yet?? Paging AlGore
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04/22/2021 10:33:47 AM PDT
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eyeamok
(founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
To: BenLurkin
“She called it the first technology of its kind to help future missions “live off the land” of another planet.”
More like “live under the land”, since any manned mission would have to hide in tunnels under the surface to protect them from the deadly radiation.
To: butlerweave
Ya, they go up there, WTF are they going to do with that?
I am gonna call the Friends of Mars bunch and get them to protest.
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posted on
04/22/2021 10:35:49 AM PDT
by
crz
To: BenLurkin
I thought Martian oil was primarily super-oxide-lots of oxygen potential locked up in it.
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posted on
04/22/2021 10:37:05 AM PDT
by
RC one
(When a bunch of commies start telling you that you don't need an AR15, you really need an AR15)
To: BenLurkin
The Martians will send a strongly worded letter to Earth demanding we stop stealing the little oxygen they have left
To: crz
Also, call Mars First! activists.
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posted on
04/22/2021 10:40:02 AM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: eyeamok
95% CO2 and its bloody freezing !
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posted on
04/22/2021 10:40:59 AM PDT
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LVS1
To: BenLurkin
How stupid is NPR and today’s NASA?
If I can do this I don’t even need an atmosphere. My own exhalation can be recycled. Seems more useful on the Moon.
Now, for fuel O2 for a return to Earth, that may be a different story. But, who would want to come back.
To: butlerweave
Where is the KABOOM?
There was supposed to be an Earth shattering KABOOM.
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