'It's historic,' says MIT scientists.
Since April 2021, the MIT-led Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment successfully made oxygen from the Red Planet's carbon-dioxide-rich atmosphere, according toMIT-led MOXIE project was able to produce oxygen on seven experimental runs on the Red Planet."It's historic," said MOXIE's deputy principal investigator Jeffrey Hoffman, a professor of the practice in MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
MOXIE has demonstrated that, despite the inevitable trade-offs in its current architecture, it can reliably and effectively convert Mars' atmosphere into pure oxygen. "The only thing we have not demonstrated is running at dawn or dusk when the temperature is changing substantially," said Michael Hecht, principal investigator of the MOXIE mission at MIT's Haystack Observatory."We do have an ace up our sleeve that will let us do that, and once we test that in the lab, we can reach that last milestone to show we can really run any time."MOXIE's current design is small to fit aboard the Perseverance rover.
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