Comet inspires chemistry for making breathable oxygen on Mars

Tuesday, May 28, 2019 - 22:22 in Astronomy & Space

Science fiction stories are chock full of terraforming schemes and oxygen generators for a very good reason–we humans need molecular oxygen (O2) to breathe, and space is essentially devoid of it. Even on other planets with thick atmospheres, O2 is hard to come by. So, when we explore space, we need to bring our own […]

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