Astronauts who travel to Mars will need ways of producing resources when they arrive. A new technique that involves blasting atmospheric particles apart to make oxygen and fertiliser could help
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who oversees the MOXIE project. But it is unlikely to exceed MOXIE’s efficiency levels because MOXIE is already operating at close to the theoretical limits for oxygen production, says Hecht.However, the plasma can be fine-tuned to vibrate at different molecular frequencies, allowing it to separate other molecules and produce resources that MOXIE can’t, such as nitrogen and nitric oxide.
The technology is still some way off being ready for Mars. Guerra and his team hope to build a prototype in the next couple of years, with a spacebound mission to follow once the technology has been proven to work.
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Mars explorers could harvest oxygen from the atmosphere using plasmaAndrew is a freelance space journalist with a focus on reporting on China's rapidly growing space sector. He began writing for Space.com in 2019 and writes for SpaceNews, IEEE Spectrum, National Geographic, Sky & Telescope, New Scientist and others. Andrew first caught the space bug when, as a youngster, he saw Voyager images of other worlds in our solar system for the first time. Away from space, Andrew enjoys trail running in the forests of Finland. You can follow him on Twitter AJ_FI.
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