On the red and dusty surface of Mars, nearly 100 million miles from Earth, a golden instrument the size of a lunchbox is proving it can reliably do the work of a small tree.
The M I T-led Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment, or MOXIE for short, has been successfully making oxygen from the Red Planet's carbon-dioxide-rich atmosphere since February 2021, when it touched down on the Martian surface as part of NASA's Perseverance rover mission.
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