Mars Oxygen ISRU Experiment (MOXIE)-Preparing for human Mars exploration.

Autor: Hoffman JA; MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA., Hecht MH; MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA 01886, USA., Rapp D; South Pasadena, CA 91030, USA., Hartvigsen JJ; OxEon Energy, North Salt Lake City, UT 84054, USA., SooHoo JG; MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA 01886, USA., Aboobaker AM; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA., McClean JB; MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA 01886, USA., Liu AM; MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA., Hinterman ED; MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA., Nasr M; MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA., Hariharan S; MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA., Horn KJ; MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA., Meyen FE; Lunar Outpost Inc., Golden, CO 80401, USA., Okkels H; Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DK-2100, Denmark., Steen P; MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA 01886, USA., Elangovan S; OxEon Energy, North Salt Lake City, UT 84054, USA., Graves CR; Noon Energy, Palo Alto, CA 94301, USA., Khopkar P; MathWorks, Natick, MA 01760, USA., Madsen MB; Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DK-2100, Denmark., Voecks GE; Pasadena, CA 91101, USA., Smith PH; Space Exploration Instruments, Tucson, AZ 85745, USA., Skafte TL; Noon Energy, Palo Alto, CA 94301, USA., Araghi KR; NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 77058, USA., Eisenman DJ; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Science advances [Sci Adv] 2022 Sep 02; Vol. 8 (35), pp. eabp8636. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Aug 31.
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abp8636
Abstrakt: MOXIE [Mars Oxygen In Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) Experiment] is the first demonstration of ISRU on another planet, producing oxygen by solid oxide electrolysis of carbon dioxide in the martian atmosphere. A scaled-up MOXIE would contribute to sustainable human exploration of Mars by producing on-site the tens of tons of oxygen required for a rocket to transport astronauts off the surface of Mars, instead of having to launch hundreds of tons of material from Earth's surface to transport the required oxygen to Mars. MOXIE has produced oxygen seven times between landing in February 2021 and the end of 2021 and will continue to demonstrate oxygen production during night and day throughout all martian seasons. This paper reviews what MOXIE has accomplished and the implications for larger-scale oxygen-producing systems.
Databáze: MEDLINE