We've reported before on the idea of having a balloon explore the atmosphere of Venus, and we closely watched the progress of the Mars Oxygen ISRU Experiment (MOXIE) as part of the Perseverance ...

The rule of thumb with planetary exploration so far has been, “What goes up, stays up.” With the exception of the Moon and a precious few sample return missions to asteroids and comets, once a ...

In 2021, an experimental instrument called the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment, or MOXIE, attached to NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars, was able to convert carbon dioxide in the ...

the only ISRU experiment that has ever been conducted outside of an Earth environment is by MOXIE, which is an experiment on the Perseverance rover," said Maiwald. MOXIE is the Mars Oxygen In-situ ...

A new study conducted using existing data on Mars points to ferrihydrite, a substance that forms in the presence of water, ...