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NASA’s Rover Is Taking a Tree-Like Device That Converts CO2 Into Oxygen to Mars – ScienceAlert
NASA’s Mars rover, Perseverance, is on its way to Mars carrying an experiment known as MOXIE that will convert the thin atmosphere into oxygen.
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Thursday morning, carrying a host of cutting-edge technology including high-definition video equipment and the first interplanetary helicopter.
Many of the tools are designed as experimental steps toward human exploration of the red planet. Crucially, Perseverance is equipped with a device called the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment, or MOXIE: an attempt to produce oxygen on a planet where it makes up le…
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