A photo from open sources The life safety of future colonists on Mars depends on many factors, among which – the need take care of a supply of oxygen suitable for breathing. Believed that the atmosphere on the Red Planet cannot support sufficient balance for breathing: oxygen was saturated with oxygen for about 4 billion years back, now people need to come up with a way of artificial providing astronauts with oxygen. While some scientists are developing designs capable of supporting inside habitable capsules and compartments required oxygen supply, others go even further and put forward ambitious projects for oxygen saturation the planet. In a contest organized by Mars One, along with nine more teams won a project students from Western University Australia and Josh Mars One candidate Richards Helena Payload Project. They proposed to extract water from Martian soil, then convert it to air using electrolysis. Researchers from Germany also worked on the problem. – group Cyano Knights. They decided that oxygen could be available after processing by cyanobacteria up to 95% carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of Mars. Students from massachusetts technological Institute with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory created the MOXIE project. In their opinion, for oxygen use electrolysis of solid oxides. Result of exposure electricity to ceramics will become the separation of carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide and oxygen, reports “Vesti.ru”. 
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All proposed projects will be tested in simulated conditions close to Martian. © Algol | Shutterstock
The authors of the projects will generate oxygen on Earth in conditions which are close to Martian, after which the volunteers should will evaluate whether it is suitable for breathing. All winners devices will go to the Red Planet as part of an unmanned mission and reached it in 2018. There they will have to demonstrate the ability to maintain oxygen on Mars.
Project co-director Andre Van Vyulpen noted that he hopes for victory in the competition, as this project involves using the resources of the planet to provide people suitable for breathing air. Mars One hopes to recreate breathable air on the Red Planet in 5-10 years.
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