On the red and dusty surface of Mars, nearly 100 million miles from Earth, an instrument the size of a lunchbox is proving it can reliably do the work of a small tree. The MIT-led Mars Oxygen In-Situ ...

A toaster-sized device called MOXIE is tucked inside NASA's Perseverance rover, which landed on Mars in 2021. MOXIE reliably produces 6 grams of oxygen per hour under various conditions on Mars. A ...

If you've ever seen renderings of what Mars would look like if it were a lush, fertile jungle planet with vast oceans and a thick, luscious atmosphere, such a world could only exist if there was ...

Inside the belly of the Perseverance rover, currently exploring Mars’s Jezero Crater, is a small box with a big job. The Mars Oxygen In Situ Resource Utilization Experiment or MOXIE aims to produce ...

An Oxygen production test on the Mars Perserverance rover has worked. It is 0.5% scale test for a larger system. The larger system will weigh one ton and over one year using 25 kilowatts of power ...

This hardware is only an experiment, but it suggests producing breathable air from the red planet's thin atmosphere is going to be feasible. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens ...

Oxygen, essential to our existence, took nearly a billion years to appear in significant quantities on Earth, despite the ...

An experiment created by researchers at MIT is on board the new Mars rover, and scientists say it could allow future human explorers to create oxygen while on the Red Planet. The rover, named ...

The MOXIE experiment has now produced oxygen on Mars. It is the first demonstration of in-situ resource utilization on the Red Planet, and a key step in the goal of sending humans on a Martian mission ...