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NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover scouts for the landing sites of the “Mars Sample Return” campaign in the Red Planet.

moxie_being_installed_in_perseverance.jpeg Technicians at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory lower the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) instrument into the belly of the Perseverance rover. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech The growing list of firsts for Perseverance, NASAs newest six-wheeled robot on the Martian surface, includes converting some of the Red Planets thin, carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere into oxygen. A toaster-size, experimental instrument aboard Perseverance called the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) accomplished the task. The test ...

Image001.png This screen capture shows the first image received from NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover following its successful landing on the Red Planet on...