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NASA's Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) successfully concluded its mission by producing oxygen on the Red Planet for the 16th and final time. Developed by a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the machine exceeded the initial expectations of its creators and has set a strong precedent for future missions aimed at human exploration of Mars.
"MOXIE's outstanding results validate the viability of extracting oxygen from the Martian atmosphere—a crucial resource for both life-support and propellant for return missions," stated NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy in a press release.The Deputy Administrator emphasized the technology's significance in establishing a long-term lunar presence, fostering a lunar economy, and laying the groundwork for future manned Mars missions.
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Since the Perseverance rover's landing in 2021, MOXIE has produced a cumulative 122 grams of oxygen—roughly the amount breathed by a small dog in 10 hours. Notably, the device demonstrated its capability to generate oxygen at an hourly rate of 12 grams, doubling NASA’s original target, and consistently maintained an impressive purity level of 98% or better. On its concluding run on August 7, MOXIE yielded 9.8 grams of oxygen. NASA has also uploaded an audio clip of the device's air compressor pumping air on Mars.
First of its kind
Unlike other experiments conducted by the Perseverance rover, MOXIE was not aimed at scientific discovery per se but at creating conditions to support future human missions to Mars. As the first of its kind, MOXIE has successfully demonstrated the technology that would enable astronauts to live on Mars and return to Earth. By producing oxygen, MOXIE provides a potential source of breathable air and, most importantly, serves as a key ingredient for rocket propellant.
The device operates by electrochemically separating oxygen atoms from carbon dioxide molecules harvested from Mars' tenuous atmosphere. As these gasses circulate through the system, they undergo analysis to gauge the quality and quantity of the oxygen being generated.
"We couldn't be more thrilled to have supported a groundbreaking technology like MOXIE," said Trudy Kortes, Director of Technology Demonstrations at NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD). The success of MOXIE, she said, has brought humanity "one step closer to a future where astronauts could 'live off the land' on Mars."
The road ahead
As for what's next after MOXIE, the focus isn't on creating a MOXIE 2.0, despite the rich learnings from the current model. The aim is to develop a full-scale system incorporating an oxygen generator along the lines of MOXIE, along with mechanisms for liquidizing and storing the oxygen.
Michael Hecht, the principal investigator of MOXIE at MIT, envisions a future where MOXIE-like technologies form the cornerstone of in-situ resource utilization (ISRU), an emerging field of research. "MOXIE has been a beacon for the ISRU community, proving that NASA is committed to investing in technologies that will shape the future of space exploration," Hecht stated.
Broader mission objectives
Perseverance's mission isn't only about preparing for human exploration. It also has objectives related to astrobiology, including searching for evidence of ancient microbial life and studying Mars’ geology and past climate. Future NASA missions, in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA), aim to collect samples from the Martian surface and return them to Earth for exhaustive analysis.
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