Scientists Suggest Magnets as a Potential Key to Filtering Oxygen for Deep Space Travel

The new discovery shows magnets can attract oxygen from liquids in zero-gravity

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Exploring outer space is incredibly difficult and rife with obstacles. After all, above the ozone layer of our planet is an entirely alien environment without gravity or oxygen. Let alone the fact that there’s no AAA in space. If something goes wrong, the astronauts are largely on their own. Still, our species figured out, then achieved landing on the Moon.

We also constructed the International Space Station, where astronauts live while orbiting the Earth. But even with such remarkable accomplishments, our technology isn’t adequate enough for deep space exploration. Thankfully, brilliant minds may have figured out how to create oxygen for astronauts in deep space using something far less technical yet more powerful than the clunky machines currently in use — magnets.

The Problem

There are many, many challenges to space exploration, and one of the biggies is the lack of oxygen in outer space. The technology we’re using right now works decently well for astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) or trips to the Moon. But further exploration into deeper space will require a…