{"id":121806,"date":"2021-04-22T12:22:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T19:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/nasas-perseverance-rover-produces-oxygen-on-mars-key-first-for-human-exploration-of-the-red-planet"},"modified":"2021-04-22T12:22:20","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T19:22:20","slug":"nasas-perseverance-rover-produces-oxygen-on-mars-key-first-for-human-exploration-of-the-red-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/nasas-perseverance-rover-produces-oxygen-on-mars-key-first-for-human-exploration-of-the-red-planet","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Perseverance Rover Produces Oxygen on Mars \u2013 Key \u201cFirst\u201d for Human Exploration of the Red Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-perseverance-rover-produces-oxygen-on-mars-key-first-for-human-exploration-of-the-red-planet2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The milestone, which the MOXIE instrument achieved by converting carbon dioxide into oxygen, points the way to future human exploration of the Red Planet.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The growing list of \u201cfirsts\u201d for Perseverance, NASA \u2019s newest six-wheeled robot on the Martian surface, includes converting some of the Red Planet\u2019s thin, carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere into oxygen. A toaster-size, experimental instrument aboard Perseverance called the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (<a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/mit-is-going-to-mars-to-make-oxygen-from-martian-air-with-perseverance-and-a-little-moxie\/\">MOXIE<\/a>) accomplished the task. The test took place April 20, the 60th Martian day, or sol, since the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/touchdown-nasas-mars-perseverance-rover-safely-lands-on-red-planet-see-the-first-image-sent-back\/\">mission landed<\/a> on February 18.<\/p>\n<p>While the technology demonstration is just getting started, it could pave the way for science fiction to become science fact \u2013 isolating and storing oxygen on Mars to help power rockets that could lift astronauts off the planet\u2019s surface. Such devices also might one day provide breathable air for astronauts themselves. MOXIE is an exploration technology investigation \u2013 as is the Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer (<a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/nasa-perseverance-rovers-first-weather-report-from-jezero-crater-on-mars\/\">MEDA<\/a>) weather station \u2013 and is sponsored by NASA\u2019s Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) and Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The milestone, which the MOXIE instrument achieved by converting carbon dioxide into oxygen, points the way to future human exploration of the Red Planet. The growing list of \u201cfirsts\u201d for Perseverance, NASA \u2019s newest six-wheeled robot on the Martian surface, includes converting some of the Red Planet\u2019s thin, carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere into oxygen. A toaster-size, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":377,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/377"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}