In a first, researchers produce oxygen from magnets for space exploration

The new method could be the key to getting oxygen to Mars and beyond.

concluded that adapting the same architecture on a trip to Mars would have such significant mass and reliability penalties that it wouldn’t make any sense to use,” said lead author Álvaro Romero-Calvo, a recent Ph.D. graduate from the University of Colorado Boulder.

These tests took place in the Center for Applied Space Technology and Microgravity in Germany at a special drop tower facility that simulates microgravity conditions.

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