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Humans just manufactured breathable oxygen on Mars for the first time

NASA’s Perseverance rover produced breathable oxygen on Mars on April 20, 2021, marking the first time humans manufactured a ...

It’s not photosynthesis: The deep ocean is creating oxygen on its own

Researchers have discovered evidence of oxygen production in the deep Pacific Ocean, independent of sunlight and living ...
El Adelantado de Segovia

Goodbye to the idea that only plants produce oxygen—scientists reveal a process in the deep ocean that defies NASA without photosynthesis

Did you know that the deep ocean can produce oxygen without the need of solar light nor photosynthesis? According to a study ...
Science Daily

Ancient microbes may have used oxygen 500 million years before it filled Earth’s atmosphere

Life on Earth may have learned to breathe oxygen long before oxygen filled the skies. MIT researchers traced a key ...
The Tufts Daily

Light unrequired: The discovery of dark oxygen

For centuries, it was believed that the production of oxygen relied on one component: photosynthesis (the conversion of light energy into chemical energy). Plants and algae use sunlight to convert ...
THE WEEK

Production of 'dark' oxygen deep in the ocean comes to light

A new study published in the journal Nature Geoscience found evidence of oxygen production near polymetallic nodules located deep in the ocean. Called dark oxygen, this oxygen is being produced ...

Sunlight extracts oxygen from regolith using solar chemistry

NASA's Carbothermal Reduction Demonstration (CaRD) project has completed an important step toward using local resources to support human exploration on the moon. The CaRD team performed integrated ...
Science Daily

Deep-ocean floor produces its own oxygen

An international team of researchers has discovered that metallic minerals on the deep-ocean floor produce oxygen -- 13,000 feet below the surface. Discovery challenges long-held assumptions that only ...

Life Learned To Breathe Oxygen Hundreds of Millions of Years Earlier Than Scientists Thought

Oxygen is everywhere on Earth today. But that hasn’t always been the case. Scientists think oxygen only became a lasting part ...
SpaceNews

Ancient Ocean Oxygen Production Began 100 Million Years Earlier than Thought

Image: Even low concentrations of oxygen can have profound effects on ocean chemistry Photo of Australia’s red-weathered hills. Credit: Ariel Anbar, ASU Scientists widely accept that around 2.4 ...