Nearly three years and 122 grams of oxygen later, MOXIE's work is done.
For example, getting four astronauts off the Martian surface would require about 15,000 pounds of rocket fuel and 55,000 pounds of oxygen. And, well, that's 55,000 pounds of oxygen the crew must take to Mars in addition to whatever oxygen is needed to get the rocket off Earththe oxygen supply required for the astronauts to breathe. Not to mention all the other payloads the team would probably be carrying onboard.
It'd be better for the environment, more cost-effective and generally make humanity's dream of an eventual Martian society much more feasible. "Rocket propellant depends on oxygen, and future explorers will depend on producing propellant on Mars to make the trip home," Jim Reuter, associate administrator at NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate,In fact, future lunar astronauts could benefit from MOXIE, too, if the device can translate its capabilities to operate on the moon's surface — a much closer dream, as that's a world we know quite intimately in comparison to Mars.
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