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MIT’s ‘MOXIE’ to land on Mars Thursday Charlie McKenna © R. Lannom MOXIE being lowered into the Perseverance rover. The device, which seeks to turn carbon dioxide into oxygen, is set to land on Mars aboard the rover on Thursday. A device designed by a group of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Haystack Observatory is currently hurtling through space aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover, set to land Thursday on Mars. The goal of MOXIE (Mars OXygen In situ resource utilization Experiment) is to figure out if carbon dioxide in the Red Planet’s a...

Caption: Paul Sebring was the first director of MIT Haystack Observatory, serving from 1970 to 1980. He joined Lincoln Laboratory in 1952, and led its Space Surveillance Group (Millstone and Haystack) from 1958 to 1970, when Haystack became a radio/radar astronomy observatory open to the scientific community, under the Mansfield Amendment. He was the site supervisor of the Haystack Facility from 1964 to 1970. Credits: Photo: Ellen Sebring Next image Former and first MIT Haystack Observatory Director Paul Brown Sebring died Ja...