NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover Extracts First Oxygen from 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 ...
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