{"id":504426,"date":"2026-06-17T14:03:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T14:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/504426\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T14:03:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T14:03:12","slug":"nasa-created-extraterrestrial-oxygen-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/504426\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Created Extraterrestrial Oxygen on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/respiratory-therapy.com\/tag\/nasa\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"2438\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASA<\/a> experiment on the Martian surface successfully created breathable oxygen, marking the first time humans have manufactured O2 on the surface of another planet.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report on SpaceDaily.com, the microwave-sized device called MOXIE was part of NASA\u2019s Perseverance mission to Mars. Its goal was to create <a href=\"https:\/\/respiratory-therapy.com\/tag\/oxygen\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"4575\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">oxygen<\/a> from a process called solid oxide electrolysis that separated oxygen molecules from carbon dioxide in the Martian atmosphere. <\/p>\n<p>Over the course of three years (2021-2023), MOXIE ran 16 times and produced a cumulative 122 grams of oxygen\u2014 an amount that would sustain a small dog for 10 hours, according to the article. <\/p>\n<p>The experiment is a proof of concept for a future device that could potentially create oxygen in amounts to support human astronauts on the planet and for return missions to Earth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacedaily.com\/d-breathable-oxygen-has-now-been-produced-on-the-surface-of-mars-generated-between-2021-and-2023-by-a-nasa-experiment-about-the-size-of-a-toaster-riding-inside-the-perseverance-rover\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article at spacedaily.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A NASA experiment on the Martian surface successfully created breathable oxygen, marking the first time humans have manufactured&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60,91,5941],"class_list":["post-504426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-nasa","tag-oxygen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}