Washington: On Mars, we will no longer need to carry oxygen from Earth. The US space agency NASA has succeeded in making oxygen from the atmosphere of Mars itself. According to NASA, with the help of the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE), scientists have started producing oxygen on Mars itself. With this oxygen, the availability of oxygen for the astronauts on future Mars missions will be done from the atmosphere of the house itself.
How to get success
Actually, winter is at its peak on Mars. According to NASA, due to the formation of relatively high atmospheric pressure on cold nights, the MOXIE sent to Mars was successful in making oxygen. MOXIE succeeded in producing more oxygen by producing more carbon dioxide than being produced at the highest air density due to cold. At present, this machine is producing oxygen at the rate of about 10.5 grams per hour.
Will humans be able to survive with this much oxygen?
According to scientists, a human needs oxygen at the rate of 21 grams per hour to survive. This means that twice as much oxygen as this machine is producing is enough to keep a human alive. NASA is looking at producing oxygen on Mars like a tag.
It’s a long way
To keep a human crew of four to six astronauts alive from the surface of Mars and in orbit, NASA will have to produce 2 to 3 kilograms of oxygen per hour. Although the machine is currently working in the initial phase, according to NASA, the advanced version of this machine can achieve this target. To make this much oxygen, 25 kW of power would be required, and MOXIE is producing only 100 watts of power, so NASA believes that the advanced version can achieve this goal. At present, only about 10% of the power being generated is used to generate oxygen. The remaining air is consumed to run the collecting compressor.
