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A spacecraft has tasted oxygen in the atmosphere of another world for the first time while flying low over Saturn's icy moon, Rhea.
Nasa's Cassini probe scooped oxygen from the thin atmosphere of the planet's moon while passing overhead at an altitude of 97km in March this year.
Ahh but pure oxygen is actually poisonous..
I agree with one of the posters above, pure oxygen is not good...
Originally posted by harrytuttle
60% Oxygen?!? Couldn't that be a major explosive hazard???
Originally posted by Iam'___'
I've liked this idea ever since I first learnt of the nature of atoms in my school years. It's a thing of beauty that atoms loosely replicate a scaled down universe, bodies orbiting a central mass and all.
Originally posted by harrytuttle
60% Oxygen?!? Couldn't that be a major explosive hazard??? Pretty sure. Maybe there hasn't been any ignition sources on Rhea. Man, if we dropped a match into that atmosphere, the entire moon would be engulfed in an inferno.
*I have a plan...*