{"id":146059,"date":"2022-09-10T17:22:51","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T22:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/nasa-can-now-reliably-produce-a-trees-worth-of-oxygen-on-mars"},"modified":"2022-09-10T17:22:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T22:22:51","slug":"nasa-can-now-reliably-produce-a-trees-worth-of-oxygen-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/nasa-can-now-reliably-produce-a-trees-worth-of-oxygen-on-mars","title":{"rendered":"NASA Can Now Reliably Produce a Tree\u2019s Worth of Oxygen on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-can-now-reliably-produce-a-trees-worth-of-oxygen-on-mars2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronauts on the <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2020\/11\/09\/the-international-space-station-is-turning-20-whats-next-for-humanitys-orbital-presence\/\">space station<\/a> may seem distant, but they\u2019re only 248 miles from Earth: a little more than the drive from New York City to Washington DC. Everything they need can be delivered in relatively short order. Astronauts visiting Mars won\u2019t have such easy access. The red planet\u2019s average distance from Earth is 140 million miles.<\/p>\n<p>We can plan supply missions, but taking <em>everything<\/em> along for the ride would be expensive and impractical. Like Mark Watney in <em>The<\/em> <em>Martian<\/em>, explorers will have to <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2021\/10\/10\/this-asteroid-may-be-the-shard-of-a-dead-protoplanet-and-have-more-metal-than-all-the-reserves-on-earth\/\">live off the land<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019ve been plenty of proposals for how astronauts might produce the essentials, but until recently no technology had been field tested. Now, thanks to a machine called <a href=\"https:\/\/mars.nasa.gov\/mars2020\/spacecraft\/instruments\/moxie\/\">MOXIE<\/a>, built by MIT and stowed away on NASA\u2019s Perseverance rover, we can definitively say humans will be able to make oxygen on Mars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronauts on the space station may seem distant, but they\u2019re only 248 miles from Earth: a little more than the drive from New York City to Washington DC. Everything they need can be delivered in relatively short order. Astronauts visiting Mars won\u2019t have such easy access. The red planet\u2019s average distance from Earth is 140 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146059","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}