Out Of Thin Air: NASA Rover Makes Oxygen From Martian Atmosphere

NPR ^ | April 22, 2021 | SCOTT NEUMAN JOE PALCA

[mountainlion]

95% CO2? Not possible according to global warming doctrine, the planet would be molten rock.

[COBOL2Java]

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.

[OttawaFreeper]

Did it involve a tax?

[DannyTN]

[tet68]

Headline: Scientists find answer to global warming.
CO2 scrubbers.

[butlerweave]

Does Mars Oxygen have more or less calories ? LOL

[Flick Lives]

“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)

[Pollard]

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 ----

[monkeyshine]

electrochemically split oxygen atoms from carbon dioxide molecules

Now if they could only do this on earth all the yentas might stop yenting.

[butlerweave]

With a byproduct of carbon monoxide that they release back into Mars atmosphere , poor Martians ,LOL

[eyeamok]

The Martian atmosphere is about 95% carbon dioxide. ??

And the Planet hasn’t exploded or melted yet?? Paging AlGore

[Boogieman]

“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.

[crz]

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.

[RC one]

I thought Martian oil was primarily super-oxide-lots of oxygen potential locked up in it.

[butlerweave]

The Martians will send a strongly worded letter to Earth demanding we stop stealing the little oxygen they have left

[Army Air Corps]

Also, call Mars First! activists.

[LVS1]

95% CO2 and its bloody freezing !

[Empire_of_Liberty]

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.

[woodbutcher1963]

Where is the KABOOM?

There was supposed to be an Earth shattering KABOOM.