{"id":9885,"date":"2015-02-09T01:37:50","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T06:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9885"},"modified":"2015-02-09T01:37:50","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T06:37:50","slug":"space-science-new-horizon-pluto-mission-team-does-qa-mars-lander-to-test-system-to-produce-oxygen-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9885","title":{"rendered":"Space science: New Horizon Pluto mission team does Q&A + Mars lander to test system to produce oxygen on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alan Stern and other members of the New Horizon<\/a> mission to Pluto answer questions about the mission in this edited version of \u00a0an\u00a0“Ask Me Anything” session on Reddit:\u00a0Alan Stern \u00b7 AMA Highlights<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A group of retired spacecraft engineers and scientists are helping to design and build an experimental system to go on the Mars 2020<\/a> lander\u00a0that will extract oxygen from the CO2 in the atmosphere :\u00a0Elder statesmen of science unite for Mars mission – The Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n

At an age when most are retired or thinking hard about it, they\u2019ve put their minds together to help solve one of the great puzzles of human interplanetary travel. And NASA has awarded them $30 million to press on.<\/em><\/p>\n

To be clear, these elder statesmen of science don\u2019t plan to pay a visit themselves. They are building an oxygen-generating machine to ride aboard the unmanned Mars 2020 rover, an early version of a technology that could enable the next generation to breathe and burn fuel on Mars \u2014 and power their way home.<\/em><\/p>\n

Perhaps it\u2019s no coincidence that the abbreviated acronym for their instrument \u2014 the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resources Utilization Experiment \u2014 is MOXIE<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Mars-2020-NASA-MOXIE-Carbon-Oxygen-br2[1]\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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MOXIE would be the first real attempt by NASA to test a system necessary for “in situ” resource utilization, which is\u00a0key to settlement of Mars and other sites in the solar system. Local resources must be used for long term residence in space rather than relying on supplies from earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alan Stern and other members of the New Horizon mission to Pluto answer questions about the mission in this edited version of \u00a0an\u00a0“Ask Me Anything” session on Reddit:\u00a0Alan Stern \u00b7 AMA Highlights. === A group of retired spacecraft engineers and scientists are helping to design and build an experimental system to go on the Mars … Continue reading Space science: New Horizon Pluto mission team does Q&A + Mars lander to test system to produce oxygen on Mars<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[97,13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pluto","category-space-science","category-space-settlement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2zr","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16093,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16093","url_meta":{"origin":9885,"position":0},"title":"Video: Alan Stern and David Grinspoon talk about the “Epic First Mission to Pluto”","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 27, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Dr. Alan Stern (Southwest Research Inst) and\u00a0Dr. David Grinspoon (Planetary Science Inst) recently gave a public lecture on the New Horizon\u00a0 mission to Pluto and beyond:\u00a0\u00a0 In July 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft flew by Pluto, revealing its surface to our view for the first time. 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