Red Planet breakthrough: NASA generates enough oxygen on Mars to keep small dog alive for 10 hours
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In a potential breakthrough for future exploration on Mars, NASA says it has generated enough oxygen for a small dog to survive on the Red Planet for 10 hours.
The 40-pound microwave-sized device was attached to the Perseverance rover when it touched down on Mars in February 2021. Bradford Betz is a Fox News Digital breaking reporter covering crime, political issues, and much more.
For more than two years, MOXIE has been extracting trace amounts of oxygen from the Martian atmosphere, NASA said in a press release.
The device executed an electrochemical process that separated one oxygen atom from each molecule of carbon dioxide pumped in from Mars’ thin atmosphere, which is made up of 95% carbon dioxide, 3% nitrogen, 1.6% argon, and trace amounts of oxygen.
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