WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE WORLD OF SCIENCE? 2
NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Produces Oxygen on Mars The Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE), an instrument on NASA’s Perseverance rover, landed on Mars and produced oxygen using carbon dioxide. MOXIE being placed in Perseverance rover Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech The majority of Mars’ surface consists of carbon dioxide (CO₂) at a concentration of 96% compared…