Edit... Riham Mosad

The United States Aviation and Space Administration (NASA) has announced the recording of a unique off - Earth event, during its latest mission to Mars, which is to convert carbon dioxide from the atmosphere of the red planet into pure, breathable oxygen.

This unprecedented extraction of oxygen from the thin air of Mars was achieved by an experimental device on board the Persiverans rover, which landed on Mars on February 18, after a journey of 7 months from Earth.

NASA reports that this device is a simple size.

Known as Moxie, it produced about 5 grams of oxygen, enough to breathe an astronaut for about 10 minutes.

Despite the humility of the primary product, this achievement represents the first experimental extraction of natural resources from another planet's environment for direct human use.

"Moxy is not just the first oxygen production tool in another world." She described it as the first technology of its kind to help future missions live on the lands of another planet.

The device works through electrolysis, which uses extreme heat to separate oxygen atoms from carbon dioxide molecules, which make up about 95 percent of Mars' atmosphere.

And the remaining five percent of Mars air consists mainly of molecular nitrogen gas and argon gas. Oxygen is present, but in very small quantities it is negligible.

But a plethora of oxygen is vital to humans' exploration of the Red Planet, as a permanent source of air that astronauts can breathe, and a necessary component of the rocket fuel needed to bring them back to Earth.

NASA also reported that landing four astronauts on Mars would require about seven metric tons of rocket fuel, plus 25 metric tons of oxygen.