How to make oxygen on the moon

Inside a giant sphere, the engineers pored over their equipment. Before them stood a silvery metal contraption swathed in colourful wires – a box that they hope will one day make oxygen on the moon.Once the team vacated the sphere, the experiment began. The box-like machine was now ingesting small quantities of a dusty regolith – a mixture of dust and sharp grit with a chemical composition mimicking real lunar soil.

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Inside a giant sphere, the engineers pored over their equipment. Before them stood a silvery metal contraption swathed in colourful wires – a box that they hope will one day make oxygen on the moon.Once the team vacated the sphere, the experiment began. The box-like machine was now ingesting small quantities of a dusty regolith – a mixture of dust and sharp grit with a chemical composition mimicking real lunar soil.

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Sierra Space’s Lunar Oxygen Production Experiment: Paving the Way for Future Moon and Mars Missions

ierra Space’s experiment unfolded at Nasa’s Johnson Space Center this summer. It is far from the only such technology that researchers are working on, as they develop systems that could supply astronauts living on a future lunar base.Those astronauts will need oxygen to breathe but also to make rocket fuel for spacecraft that might launch from the moon and head to destinations further afield – including Mars. The problem is that such technology works by forming bubbles of oxygen on the surface of electrodes deep within the molten regolith itself. It is the consistency of, say, honey. It is very says Dr Burke. bubbles aren’t going to rise as fast and may actually be delayed from detaching from the electrodes .There could be ways around this. One could be to vibrate the oxygen-making machine device, which might jiggle the bubbles free

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