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Engineers Lower MOXIE into Perseverance
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Caption:
Engineers lower MOXIE (the Mars Oxygen ISRU Experiment) into the belly of NASA's Perseverance rover. MOXIE is a technology demonstration designed to convert carbon dioxide in the Martian atmosphere into oxygen. In the distant future, astronauts could use technology like MOXIE for breathing and to generate industrial quantities of rocket propellant in order to launch themselves back to Earth.
Background Info:
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is managed for NASA by Caltech in Pasadena, California, built and manages operations of the Perseverance and Curiosity rovers.
Cataloging Keywords:
| Name | Value | Additional Values |
|---|---|---|
| Target | Mars | |
| System | ||
| Target Type | Planet | |
| Mission | Mars 2020 | Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) |
| Instrument Host | Perseverance | Curiosity Rover |
| Host Type | Rover | |
| Instrument | Mars Oxygen ISRU Experiment (MOXIE) | |
| Detector | ||
| Extra Keywords | Atmosphere, Color, Dust | |
| Acquisition Date | ||
| Release Date | 2020-11-24 | |
| Date in Caption | ||
| Image Credit | NASA/JPL-Caltech | |
| Source | photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA24176 | |
| Identifier | PIA24176 | |
