Plasma-powered oxygen harvesting could help humans live on Mars
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In 2015, Vasco Guerra, from the University of Lisbon, happened to attend a lecture by Professor Dava Newman, director of the MIT Media Lab and a former deputy administrator of NASA, on space exploration and the forthcoming NASA missions. Back then, Guerra was leading a project on plasma reforming of carbon dioxide on Earth - how CO2 could be a potential raw material to produce fuels with the help of green energy.
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