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How MIT’s “lunchbox-sized” device is producing breathable O2
Gadgets Now | 01/09/2022 09:05 PM | Click to read full article
Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment, or MOXIE, a lunchbox-sized device, has been successfully generating oxygen from the carbon-dioxide-rich atmosphere of Mar since April 2021, the institute proudly announced via a website post.
According to MIT, the MOXIE started producing oxygen about two months after reaching Mars as part of NASA’s Perseverance rover and Mars 2020 mission.
