Can NASA's toaster-shaped device make oxygen on Mars

image: Nasa/Jpl-Caltech/Msss/Via Reuters

If humans want to live on Mars in the future, they will need to make oxygen.

image: Nasa/Jpl-Caltech/Msss/Via Reuters

A small instrument the size of a toaster is doing the same on the planet.

image: Nasa/Jpl-Caltech/Msss/Via Reuters

Carbon can make oxygen from dioxide, which is abundant in the atmosphere of Mars.

image: Nasa/Jpl-Caltech/Msss/Via Reuters

It is part of NASA's Perseverance rover mission that landed on Mars in February of 2021

The small box made by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and MIT is

Space agencies, scientists, and entrepreneurs are struggling for humans to explore Mars.

NASA's much-awaited, and troubled, Artemis mission to the Moon is considered a step forward for mars exploration over the next decade.

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