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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.
\nCredits: NASA\/JPL-Caltech<\/p>\n

Mars\u2019 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.<\/p>\n

Karen Fox \/ Alana Johnson\/ Clare Skelly
\nHeadquarters, Washington<\/p>\n

Andrew Good
\nJet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.<\/p>\n

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