NASA’s Perseverance rover mission has successfully been making oxygen from Mars’ carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere in a series of tests using the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment, better known as MOXIE. CNN’s Kristin Fisher has more.
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