NASAâs Test Device On Perseverance Rover Successfully Turns Carbon Dioxide Into Oxygen On Mars
by Bhaswati Guha Majumder - Apr 23, 2021 09:21 AM
NASAâs Perseverance Rover. (Pic Via NASA website)
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MOXIE drew carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere to produce its first oxygen on 20 April.
After a successful flight on Mars by National Aeronautics and Space Administrationâs (NASA s) Ingenuity helicopter, the space agency said that for the first time its Perseverance rover successfully converted some carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere into pure, breathable oxygen.
Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) associate administrator Jim Reuter said in a statement: This is a critical first step at converting carbon dioxide to oxygen on Marsâ.
The MOXIE experiment, which flew with NASA’s Perseverance rover to Mars, has turned some of the planet’s carbon dioxide atmosphere into clean, breathable oxygen
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