Nasa Perseverance Rover has produced Oxygen O₂ on mars for the first time ever

Nasa Perseverence Rover has converted CO₂ into O₂ for the first time on Mars ever successfully.

According to NASA officials, MOXIE has produced 5.4 grams of oxygen during that span, and it is enough to sustain an Astronaut breathing easily for 10 minutes.

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This achievement would help Astronauts to breath on mars.

How much oxygen is required to sustain life on Mars?

To live and work on Mars would require about one metric ton of oxygen for one complete year, Hecht added.

Astronauts living and working on Mars would require perhaps one metric ton of oxygen between them to last an entire year, Hecht said.

On April 20, 2021, MOXIE produced oxygen from carbon dioxide in the Martian atmosphere by using solid oxide electrolysis.

What is MOXIE?

The MOXIE is short form for "Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment",  a technology implemented on the NASA MARS 2020 Perseverance Rover to investigate and produce oxygen on mars. It is launched on July 30 2020. In less a year MOXIE successfully produced first oxygen on Mars ever.