50 grams of Oxygen on Mars in 2021 produced by Perseverance Rover’s MOXIE instrument HD

That enough to breath on Mars for ~50 minutes for astronaut! For the first time Perseverance used its MOXIE instrument to generate Oxygen on Mars on April 20, 2021 (60th solar day on Red Planet). Since then NASA did not published any updates on Oxygen generation mission. Finally they informed all of us about it within latest Perseverance’s Year 2021 in Review Video. NASA specified that MOXIE generated 50 grams of Oxygen on Mars. Technically that’s enough for astronaut to breathe for ~50 minutes on Mars. Previously NASA mentioned that MOXIE’s production capability is 5 grams per hour. So Perseverance’s MOXIE instrument worked on Mars ~10 hours. That’s very important milestone for humanity to make the first Martian colony. What MOXIE does is converting carbon dioxide into oxygen, points the way to future human exploration of the Red Planet. Credit: nasa.gov, NASA/JPL-Caltech, NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Source for NASA’s Perseverance Mars mission: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/rover/ Source for Video Review of Perseverance’s 2021 year by NASA: https://mars.nasa.gov/news/9105/biggest-moments-on-mars-nasas-perseverance-rover-2021-year-in-review/ #mars #perseverance #oxygen