NASA Will Try Out An Instrument Designed To Make Oxygen On Mars
NASA Will Try Out An Instrument Designed To Make Oxygen On Mars The next Mars mission will have an instrument that can make oxygen from the carbon dioxide in the Martian atmosphere. NOEL KING, HOST: If astronauts are going to walk on Mars someday, they will, of course, need to breathe, so they'll either need to bring oxygen or make it there. JOE PALCA, BYLINE: There's an obvious reason you need oxygen once you get to Mars. HOFFMAN: But if you're ever going to rely on a process or a piece of hardware that's really critical for a space mission, and, you know, if you're counting on this to produce oxygen to get home - I would call that critical - you've got to demonstrate that it works not just in the laboratory on Earth, but in the actual environment.
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