{"id":145405,"date":"2022-09-01T16:29:01","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T21:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/mits-moxie-experiment-reliably-produces-oxygen-on-mars"},"modified":"2022-09-01T16:29:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T21:29:01","slug":"mits-moxie-experiment-reliably-produces-oxygen-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/mits-moxie-experiment-reliably-produces-oxygen-on-mars","title":{"rendered":"MIT\u2019s MOXIE experiment reliably produces oxygen on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mits-moxie-experiment-reliably-produces-oxygen-on-mars2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s historic,\u201d says MIT scientists.<\/p>\n<p>In a significant breakthrough, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u2019s (MIT) lunchbox-sized machine has been producing oxygen from the Red Planet\u2019s atmosphere for more than a year, giving hope of life on Mars one day.<\/p>\n<p>Since April 2021, the MIT-led Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) successfully made oxygen from the Red Planet\u2019s carbon-dioxide-rich atmosphere, according to a press release published by the institute on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s historic,\u201d said MOXIE\u2019s deputy principal investigator Jeffrey Hoffman, a professor of the practice in MIT\u2019s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>MIT\u2019s MOXIE experiment has now produced oxygen on Mars. It is the first demonstration of in-situ resource utilization on the Red Planet, and a key step in the goal of sending humans on a Martian mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s historic,\u201d says MIT scientists. In a significant breakthrough, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u2019s (MIT) lunchbox-sized machine has been producing oxygen from the Red Planet\u2019s atmosphere for more than a year, giving hope of life on Mars one day. Since April 2021, the MIT-led Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) successfully made oxygen from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145405","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=145405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}