A robot created chemicals to make oxygen from Martian rocks. The same process would have taken a human 2,000 years, according to researchers. The robot could one day help create human settlements on ...

Inside NASA's Perseverance rover sits a boxy, toaster-sized instrument. The contraption, called MOXIE, has been successfully brewing up oxygen on Mars — a necessary requirement for sustainably working ...

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Millions of miles away on Mars, in a barren crater just north of the equator, a rover is wandering around, carrying a gold-coated gadget the size of a toaster. The machine inhales the Martian air and ...

(Nanowerk News) The Moon’s atmosphere is entirely devoid of oxygen. If humans want to stay there for extended periods, it will be of great benefit to make breathable oxygen there instead of having to ...

Members of NASA's Mars 2020 project lower the oxygen-producing instrument, called MOXIE, into the Perseverance Mars Rover in March 2019. NASA/JPL-Caltech If humans are ever going to travel to Mars, ...

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As we push toward the next phase of human space exploration, there’s a lot of focus on using local materials at our final destination. Anything we can find or make on the Moon, Mars, or elsewhere is ...

In February 2021, when NASA's car-sized Perseverance rover touched down on Mars to global fanfare, a modest golden box named MOXIE landed too. Strapped into the life-detecting Perseverance, this ...

WASHINGTON – NASA plans to make oxygen – a key ingredient of rocket fuel – on Mars early next decade. Space agency officials Thursday unveiled seven instruments they plan to put on a Martian rover ...

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