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Lunchbox-sized instrument MOXIE produces oxygen on Mars

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Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) Experiment is installed in the belly of NASA's Perseverance rover. It uses a process called electrolysis to split the Martian carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide and oxygen. In each of its seven runs, MOXIE produced between 5.4 and 8.9 grams of molecular oxygen.

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Nasa’s Moxie instrument successfully makes oxygen on Mars

Researchers hope scaled-up version could one day generate oxygen to sustain humans on Mars

2 years ago·London, United Kingdom

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The Independent

Nasa’s MOXIE experiment successfully makes oxygen on Mars

An MIT led experiment on Nasa’s Mars rover has proven it’s possible, in principle, to make oxygen and rocket fuel from the Martian air

2 years ago·London, United Kingdom

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The Perseverance rover can produce as much oxygen as a small tree on Mars

Perseverance's MOXIE experiment was able to produce oxygen in seven tests conducted since April 2021, under a variety of atmospheric conditions.

2 years ago·Atlanta, United States

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Irish Independent

Nasa extracts oxygen for first time on Mars giving hope to future space missions

Humans have moved a step closer to settling on Mars after oxygen was created on the planet for the first time.

2 years ago·Ireland

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Washington Times

A small tree’s worth of oxygen is produced by machine on Mars

The potential for sustaining human missions to Mars took a major step forward this week, thanks to a small device aptly named MOXIE.

2 years ago·United States

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Sydney Morning Herald

NASA makes oxygen on Mars using a toaster-size device

Any hopes of sending humans to Mars in the next 20 years depend on the ability to make oxygen on the surface for the astronauts to breathe.

2 years ago·Sydney, Australia

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