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Oxygen on Mars to make human missions 'lighter'
Future human missions to the Red Planet may not have to carry heavy oxygen cylinders with them. Scientists are working on ways to produce the life gas on Mars itself. NASA is looking at creating ecosystems able to support life, for future human missions.
Washington: Future human missions to the Red Planet may not have to carry heavy oxygen cylinders with them. Scientists are working on ways to produce the life gas on Mars itself. NASA is looking at creating ecosystems able to support life, for future human missions.
As part of this goal, it is funding Indiana-based company Techshot Inc. to research a solution that will produce oxygen that won't rely heavily on the Earth for future Martian colonies. Techshot's experiments are carried out in a "Mars room" which simulates Mars' atmospheric pressure, day-night temperature changes and the solar radiation.
Using Martian soil, the scientists test the feasibility of using ecosystem-building pioneer organisms to produce oxygen. The organisms could also remove nitrogen from the Martian soil.NASA says its goal of landing astronauts on Mars in the 2030s is vital for obtaining evidence of life. NASA's Curiosity rover recently found evidence of fixed nitrogen and carbon-containing organic molecules, ingredients for life on Mars' surface.
