"One of the most interesting and significant aspects of this discovery is what it could mean if human explorers ever go to Mars," he said, explaining how useful water would be for drinking or splitting into hydrogen and oxygen for rocket fuel.
The water, if purified, could be used for drinking, or broken apart into hydrogen and oxygen for rocket fuel — to get home or travel to Mars.
The ratios of hydrogen and oxygen isotopes in drinking water vary from region to region and are captured in hair.
A little heating after being mined could drive water vapor off for collection for drinking, farming, and splitting into hydrogen and oxygen, the perfect rocket fuels.
When feeding, drinking, and breathing, animals take in carbon and oxygen, which become incorporated into bone.
Urine will be distilled and filtered to create new drinking water every two days or so, and oxygen will be derived onboard from water and carbon dioxide exhaled by the crew.
The participants' heart rates, blood pressure and oxygen consumption were measured, and drinking superoxygenated water produced no measurable differences.
Although drinking water is the major contributing factor to the body water pool, the oxidation of hydrogen and oxygen atoms contained in food and water elevate the isotopic composition of body water above that of drinking water (Fig. 1).
The ice could prove a valuable resource to future explorers, not only as drinking water but also, when the water molecules are broken apart, hydrogen and oxygen.
The ice could prove a valuable resource to future explorers, not only drinking water but also, when the water molecules are broken apart, hydrogen and oxygen.
