Technicians at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory lower the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) instrument into the belly of the Perseverance rover.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Mars’ atmosphere is 96% carbon dioxide. MOXIE works by separating oxygen atoms from carbon dioxide molecules, which are made up of one carbon atom and two oxygen atoms. A waste product, carbon monoxide, is emitted into the Martian atmosphere.
Karen Fox / Alana Johnson/ Clare Skelly
Headquarters, Washington
Andrew Good
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
