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How did Perseverance make oxygen on Mars? MOXIE converts carbon dioxide from the atmosphere with electrochemistry. 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 Two days after NASA scientists proved it’s possible to fly a helicopter in the thin Martian atmosphere, another team showed that it is also possible to convert that air into something future astronauts can breathe. This second of two “firsts” in a single week was done by a toaster...

Parallel Session Seven: Agricultural Nanotechnology Nanostructure-Enhanced Electron Transfer Devices for Agricultural Applications Guigen Zhang, Department of Bioengineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Clemson University, South Carolina,  United States In this talk, I will discuss our pursuit of engineering bridges to link the nano world to the real world we live in.  I will present several paradigm-shifting concepts using our engineered nanostructures as novel electron transfer devices for biological and agricultural applications including food and water safety, bio...

NASA's Mars Helicopter Survives First Cold Martian Night on Its Own Ingenuity Deployed on Mars: NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter can be seen on Mars as viewed by the Perseverance rover’s rear Hazard Camera on April 4, 2021, the 44th Martian day, or sol of the mission. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Full image and caption › Making it through the frigid Martian temperatures after being deployed by NASA’s Perseverance rover is a major milestone for the small rotorcraft. NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has emerged from its first night on the surface of Mars. Evening temperatures at Jezero Cra...

Washington University to develop lunar resource utilization technology for NASA Newswise — Power and in-situ resources are two things humans will need as they explore deep space. How future astronauts use these commodities depends on the technology at hand. That’s why NASA is looking to U.S. universities — including Washington University in St. Louis — for lunar-focused research to bring about advancements in in-situ resource utilization and sustainable power solutions. NASA announced March 8 that it has selected scientists at Washington University to build a rover-mounted drill se...

(Image: Shutterstock) March 9, 2021 SHARE Power and in-situ resources are two things humans will need as they explore deep space. How future astronauts use these commodities depends on the technology at hand. That’s why NASA is looking to U.S. universities — including Washington University in St. Louis — for lunar-focused research to bring about advancements in in-situ resource utilization and sustainable power solutions. NASA announced March 8 that it has selected scientists at Washington University to build a rover-mounted drill sensor to quantify the 3D distribution of water at t...