{"id":144277,"date":"2022-08-16T15:25:34","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T20:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/plasma-powered-oxygen-harvesting-could-help-humans-live-on-mars"},"modified":"2022-08-16T15:25:34","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T20:25:34","slug":"plasma-powered-oxygen-harvesting-could-help-humans-live-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/plasma-powered-oxygen-harvesting-could-help-humans-live-on-mars","title":{"rendered":"Plasma-powered oxygen harvesting could help humans live on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/plasma-powered-oxygen-harvesting-could-help-humans-live-on-mars2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re talking fuels and fertilizers required for the development of life-support systems on the Red Planet.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.tecnico.ulisboa.pt\/vguerra\/index.html\">Vasco Guerra<\/a>, from the University of Lisbon, happened to attend a lecture by Professor Dava Newman, director of the MIT Media Lab and a former deputy administrator of NASA, on space exploration and the forthcoming NASA missions. Back then, Guerra was leading a project on plasma reforming of carbon dioxide on Earth \u2014 how CO2 could be a potential raw material to produce fuels with the help of green energy.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have been working on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fenrg.2020.00111\/full\">plasma technologies<\/a> to split CO2 into oxygen and carbon monoxide, primarily prompted by the persistent problems of climate change. international team of researchers have introduced a plasma-based method that could convert carbon dioxide into oxygen and produce fuels on Mars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re talking fuels and fertilizers required for the development of life-support systems on the Red Planet. In 2015, Vasco Guerra, from the University of Lisbon, happened to attend a lecture by Professor Dava Newman, director of the MIT Media Lab and a former deputy administrator of NASA, on space exploration and the forthcoming NASA missions. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-space-travel","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144277","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}