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- Scientists at NASA have developed a microwave oven-sized
machine capable of turning Martian air into oxygen.
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- The device designed by the space agency will be needed
if astronauts want to spend any length of time on the red planet.
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- The prototype runs on solar energy and was placed inside
a chamber which provided similar conditions to those on Mars.
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- After a few days it began producing pure oxygen from
the carbon dioxide atmosphere, reports the Daily Express.
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- Any long-term expedition to Mars will have to find other
ways of providing the crew with water, air and food because it will cost
too much to send all the supplies out with them.
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- Dr David Kaplan, chief scientist behind the project in
Houston, Texas, says the machine performed brilliantly..
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