PIA24177: Components of MOXIE (Illustration)
An illustration of MOXIE and its components. An air pump pulls in carbon dioxide gas from the Martian atmosphere, which is then regulated and fed to the Solid OXide Electrolyzer (SOXE), where it is electrochemically split to produce pure oxygen.
 Mission:  Mars 2020 Rover 
 Spacecraft:  Perseverance
 Instrument:  Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) 
 Product Size:  2000 x 1125 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA24177.tif (2.403 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA24177.jpg (122.9 kB)  

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An illustration of MOXIE (Mars Oxygen ISRU Experiment) and its components. An air pump pulls in carbon dioxide gas from the Martian atmosphere, which is then regulated and fed to the Solid OXide Electrolyzer (SOXE), where it is electrochemically split to produce pure oxygen.

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is managed for NASA by Caltech in Pasadena, California, built and manages operations of the Perseverance and Curiosity rovers.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:
2020-11-24