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to use carbon dioxide (CO 2) to make a beverage fizzy. According to some accounts, the Moxie company was the first in the U.S. The connection with soft drinks doesn't end there. You can still buy Moxie in New England, and it's considered the official drink of the state of Maine. Haystack Observatory where the MOXIE principal investigator works. The soft drink, Moxie, was invented in the late 1800s in Lowell, Massachusetts, not far from the M.I.T. The word "moxie," used to describe someone with spunk and audacity, came from the soft drink of the same name. ISRU is another acronym, In Situ Resource Utilization, which is a technical way of describing what most of us call "living off the land." MOXIE stands for the Mars OXygen ISRU Experiment.

To produce oxygen from the Martian carbon-dioxide atmosphereĪbout 37.7 pounds (17.1 kilograms) on Earthģ7.7 pounds on Earth, 14.14 pounds on MarsĪpproximately one hour of oxygen (O 2) production per experiment, scheduled intermittently over the duration of the mission. MOXIE will test a way for future explorers to produce oxygen from the Martian atmosphere for burning fuel and breathing. The Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment, or MOXIE, is helping NASA prepare for human exploration of Mars. MOXIE Lowered into Rover: Technicians in the clean room are carefully lowering the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) instrument into the belly of the Perseverance rover.