{"id":159338,"date":"2026-10-27T04:00:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T04:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159338"},"modified":"2026-10-27T04:00:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T04:00:34","slug":"chinese-scientists-create-powerful-catalyst-to-turn-air-on-mars-into-rocket-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159338","title":{"rendered":"Chinese scientists create powerful catalyst to turn air on Mars into rocket fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese space scientists are working out how future astronauts on Mars could make their own fuel out of thin air, a sign that Beijing is serious about one day sending people to the red planet.<br \/>\nA team at the state-funded Deep Space Exploration Laboratory in Hefei has developed a catalyst that turns carbon dioxide \u2013 which makes up more than 95 per cent of the Martian atmosphere \u2013 into a liquid fuel called methanol.<br \/>\n\u201cMethanol can serve as fuel to generate electricity, provide heating and power Mars&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3372123\/chinese-scientists-create-powerful-catalyst-turn-air-mars-rocket-fuel\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese space scientists are working out how future astronauts on Mars could make their own fuel out of thin air, a sign that Beijing&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159338"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}