{"id":203428,"date":"2022-09-03T18:30:04","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=203428"},"modified":"2022-09-03T18:30:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T13:00:04","slug":"moxie-oxygen-on-mars-lunchbox-sized-gadget-makes-it-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/moxie-oxygen-on-mars-lunchbox-sized-gadget-makes-it-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"MOXIE: Oxygen on Mars? Lunchbox-sized gadget makes it possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cMOXIE: Oxygen on Mars? Lunchbox-sized gadget makes it possible\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>Down To Earth <\/b>on<b> 31st August 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment(MOXIE) has produced oxygen on Mars with components from the planet\u2019s atmosphere.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is MOXIE?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MOXIE is a small box sent by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT) with NASA&#8217;s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-happened-during-nasas-first-attempt-to-collect-mars-samples-with-the-perseverance-rover\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perseverence rover.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has produced oxygen on Mars with components from the planet&#8217;s atmosphere.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MOXIE makes oxygen like a tree does. It inhales carbon dioxide and exhales oxygen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Note:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Carbon dioxide makes up ~96% of the gas in Mars\u2019 atmosphere (Oxygen is only 0.13%).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Significance:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MOXIE will help demonstrate a way that future explorers might produce oxygen from the Martian atmosphere for propellant and for breathing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Note:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A substantial amount of oxygen supply on Mars is essential for crewed missions that plan to go there\u2013 not just for astronauts to breathe but for rockets to use as fuel while coming back to Earth.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cMOXIE: Oxygen on Mars? Lunchbox-sized gadget makes it possible\u201d published in Down To Earth on 31st August 2022. What is the News? Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment(MOXIE) has produced oxygen on Mars with components from the planet\u2019s atmosphere. What is MOXIE? MOXIE is a small box&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/moxie-oxygen-on-mars-lunchbox-sized-gadget-makes-it-possible\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MOXIE: Oxygen on Mars? Lunchbox-sized gadget makes it possible<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[10504,10514],"class_list":["post-203428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-down-to-earth","tag-dte","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}