Science
This golden box will soon make oxygen on Mars. That’s great news for human explorers. – Livescience.com
Having safely landed on Mars on Feb. 18, NASA’s newest rover, Perseverance, is just beginning its scientific exploration of the Red Planet. But sometime in the next few weeks, the car-size robot will also help pave the way for future humans to travel to our neighboring world with a small instrument known as the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE).
MOXIE, which will soon be pulling precious oxygen
out of Mars’ poisonous atmosphere, is gold-colored and about the size of a…
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