NASA designed the Perseverance rover to make history, and it’s done plenty of that since arriving on Mars several months ago. The most recent breakthrough comes thanks to the rover’s Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE). NASA reports MOXIE has successfully started up and produced breathable (or burnable) oxygen from the Martian atmosphere. This has the potential to change how we explore Mars and the rest of the solar system.
MOXIE is just one of several technology demonstrations that rode to Mars with Perseverance. The most notable of these demos is Ingenuity ... Read even more
