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Today, Mars is a lifeless planet. However, scientists are already fighting over a global challenge: change the planet’s climate, make Mars fit for human. Solutions are being developed, invented technology, appliances are being created. Very high hopes humanity lays on the apparatus MOXIE.
Where to escape from Earth?
Sooner or later, humanity (or parts of it) will have to leave the earth. The reason may be climatic or environmental changes on the planet, its destruction due to nuclear war, overpopulation due to the development of medicine and extension of human life, depletion of natural resources. how ships once filled with immigrants once went to sea, so in future starships will fly into space with colonist crews.
But where to fly? Nearest planet, living conditions on which is possible (only possible!) suitable for humans, located 20 light-years away in the constellation Libra (planet Gliese 581). Spending huge amounts of money, humanity someday get to her, but is there a trip in vain?
MOXIE devices will turn Mars into Earth
But there is another way: do not look for a suitable planet, but direct scientific, technical and material resources on climate change the closest is Mars, to make it an earth-type planet. Exactly on terraforming (so called this direction) do scientists bid. One of the means of the future transformation of Mars will be MOXIE devices created by scientists at the Massachusetts Technological Institute, led by Professor Michael Hecht.
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According to the creators, the device will collect carbon dioxide in a special chamber, seal it and by hydrolysis to separate from him oxygen. Since 96% of the atmosphere of Mars consists of carbon dioxide, the source material will be in excess.
Ideally, thousands of these devices will be scattered throughout Mars, around the clock transforming the atmosphere of the planet into a suitable breathing. Of course, the process will take hundreds of years, but at first MOXIE will already allow you to solve one of the most important tasks – it will provide colonists with oxygen. As for the global project on changes in the Martian atmosphere, then everything will depend on success engineers.
Today, the created model emits 20 grams of pure per hour. oxygen per hour. This is not enough, but scientists are working on perfection MOXIE. By 2020, when NASA intended to Red planet will fly a spaceship, Professor Hecht intends to bring device performance up to 2 kg / hour, reduce weight, and in further – to develop a technology for their manufacture directly on Mars from local materials.
Looking to the future
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Once upon a time, overseas went to the newly discovered New World. only a few daredevils. Australia – that was generally a place of exile convicted criminals. Today, many dream of moving to the United States and Australia Perhaps in the distant future, Mars will become “elite microdistrict “of mankind, and will be exiled to Earth offenders.
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