Perseverance does magic trick on Mars....creates oxygen out of "thin" air!

[JohnC]

It produced ten minutes of breathable air for one person!

NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Extracts First Oxygen from Red Planet - NASA

The growing list of “firsts” for Perseverance, NASA’s newest six-wheeled robot on the Martian surface, includes converting some of the Red Planet’s thin,

www.nasa.gov

 

[andymc]

This is excellent news! For so many reasons.
Starship needs oxygen to be generated on Mars to refuel to return to Earth, and obviously so I hear, Humans need oxygen to breath if they want to live on Mars.

Good news all round really.

 

[rabbitBUSH]

oxygen to breath

and breathing leads to CO2 leads to global warming -- ah us humans -- a trail of debris