Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Perseverance Mars rover wraps up MOXIE oxygen-making experiment | Space

In February 2021, when NASA's car-sized Perseverance rover touched down on Mars to global fanfare, a modest golden box named MOXIE landed too. 

MOXIE , which stands for "Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment," soon beganliving up to its name, generating oxygen at an ] impressive rate.  It did so all the way until this past Aug.

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Publisher: Space.com
Date: 2023-09-08T12:00:00Z
Author: Monisha Ravisetti
Twitter: @SPACEdotcom
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