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Oxygen from lunar soil simulant
May 2 , 2023
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- Scientists at NASA have successfully extracted oxygen from simulated lunar soil.
- Lunar soil refers to the fine-grained material covering the Moon's surface.
- This was the first time that this extraction has been done in a vacuum environment.
- It was paving the way for astronauts to one day extract and use resources in a lunar environment.
- It is called in-situ resource utilisation.
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