NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Extracts First Oxygen from Red Planet

Science

⚡NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Extracts First Oxygen from Red Planet

By Agencies

NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Extracts First Oxygen from Red Planet

Hauling 25 metric tons of oxygen from Earth to Mars would be an arduous task. Transporting a one-ton oxygen converter – a larger, more powerful descendant of MOXIE that could produce those 25 tons – would be far more economical and practical.