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NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Extracts First Oxygen from Red Planet

The growing list of “firsts” for Perseverance, NASA’s newest six-wheeled robot on the Martian surface, includes converting some of the Red Planet’s thin, carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere into oxygen. A toaster-size, experimental instrument aboard Perseverance called the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) accomplished the task.

Interplanetary First!: Utah company’s device extracts oxygen on Mars

For the first time in human history, oxygen has been extracted on another planet. Utah’s OxEon Energy created the device that makes the process work. A mini-factory that converts carbon dioxide on Mars into oxygen. They call it Soxe.

Utah Company Celebrates Major Achievement On Mars

A Utah company marked Earth Day with an eye on Mars after producing a critical component on the Perseverance rover. - KSL News, NBC

MOXIE Makes Oxygen on Mars!

The MOXIE System aboard NASA’s Perseverance Rover produced Oxygen on Mars in a first of its kind demonstration using the Solid Oxide Electrolysis (SOXE) Device designed and manufactured by the OxEon team.

Perseverance rover has successfully landed on Mars and sent back its first images

(CNN) - The NASA Perseverance rover safely landed on Mars after its 292.5 million-mile journey from Earth, the agency confirmed at 3:55 p.m. ET Thursday. The rover landed itself flawlessly, according to the mission's team.

Mars: Utah company has the M.O.X.I.E. to manufacture on an alien planet

It’s part of the Perseverance rover mission to Mars, and it sounds like science fiction, but it’s not. Scientists from earth are ready to try manufacturing on an alien planet for the first time.

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  • SOFC Stacks for Power Generation (SOFC)
  • Systems Development Support
  • Supporting Technologies for Liquid Fuel Production (Fischer Tropsch or Plasma Reformer Technologies)