Profile
Settings
Refer your friends
Sign out
Why in the News?
Recently, Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment(MOXIE) has produced oxygen on Mars with components from the planet’s atmosphere.
Key Points:
About The Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE):
- It is a small box sent with the Perseverence rover of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA).
- Developed by:Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- It works like a tree, splitting carbon dioxide absorbed from the atmosphere to produce pure oxygen.
- Significance: It will help demonstrate a way that future explorers might produce oxygen from the Martian atmosphere for propellant and for breathing.
