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NASA rover creates oxygen on red planet

NASAโ€™s Perseverance rover has successfully created oxygen on Mars from the planetโ€™s carbon dioxide atmosphere. An instrument of the size of a toaster inside the rover Moxie โ€“ the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment generated 5 grams of oxygen. The oxygen generated is sufficient for an astronaut to breathe for about 10 minutes. NASA […]