{"id":833,"date":"2019-05-28T15:22:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T15:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/?p=833"},"modified":"2019-05-28T15:49:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T15:49:21","slug":"breathable-oxygen-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/breathable-oxygen-on-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"Breathable Oxygen On Mars?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It seems that researchers might have found a way to produce breathable oxygen on Mars.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve developed a method to extract oxygen from carbon dioxide which is inspired by comets, and believe it could be used for future interplanetary missions as well as a way to reduce greenhouse gases in our atmosphere. Chemical reactions require energy, and this energy is usually kinetic, (which can be used to start a chemical reaction). Researchers know that water molecules released by comets can be accelerated by the solar wind, and these release oxygen when they&#8217;re dropped back on the comet&#8217;s surface with considerable impact.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.birchbox.com\/images\/uploads\/June_Oxygen_Skincare_Trend_700x400.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for oxygen\" width=\"369\" height=\"211\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Considering comets also emit carbon dioxide, researchers thought it&#8217;d be a good idea to replicate the process but instead of water, using co2. hey set up an experiment where they accelerated carbon dioxide molecules and made them collide with a gold foil surface. Gold is an inert element so researchers were certain that any oxygen formed would come from the chemical reaction. (Inert meaning non-reactive). They weren&#8217;t actually sure what was going to happen, but they gave it a shot anyways. At the time we thought it would be impossible to combine the two oxygen atoms of a CO2 molecule together because CO2 is a linear molecule, and you would have to bend the molecule severely for it to work,&#8221; senior author Professor Konstantinos P. Giapis said in a statement. &#8220;You&#8217;re doing something really drastic to the molecule.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, it did work and the researchers found a new way of generating oxygen, something which will be vital for future long-term travel to places like Mars.<\/p>\n<p>And who says there&#8217;s not that many great scientific discoveries these days?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that researchers might have found a way to produce breathable oxygen on Mars.\u00a0 They&#8217;ve developed a method to extract oxygen from carbon dioxide which is inspired by comets, and believe it could be used for future interplanetary missions as well as a way to reduce greenhouse gases in our atmosphere. Chemical reactions require&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[248,250,224,249,251,18,20],"class_list":["post-833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-space","tag-chemistry","tag-discovery","tag-education","tag-mars","tag-new","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":835,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions\/835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}