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  • Perseverance rover just made oxygen on Mars

    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Thu Apr 22 06:52:51 2021
    Perseverance rover just made oxygen on Mars
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    ...
    The rover on Tuesday successfully converted some of the plentiful
    carbon dioxide on Mars into oxygen as a first test of its MOXIE
    instrument. The name MOXIE is short for Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment.

    After warming up for about two hours, MOXIE produced 5.4 grams of
    oxygen. This is enough to sustain an astronaut for about 10 minutes.

    <https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/22/world/mars-rover-oxygen-moxie-scn/index.html>

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  • From Retrograde@21:1/5 to JAB on Mon Apr 26 20:15:38 2021
    JAB <here@is.invalid> writes:

    After warming up for about two hours, MOXIE produced 5.4 grams of
    oxygen. This is enough to sustain an astronaut for about 10 minutes.



    Now it needs to grow some potatoes, like Matt Damon. [Great movie]

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