NASA recognizes the need to change this model, and MOXIE is very much a step in this direction. If an alien space probe were to come to Earth, it wouldn’t face much of a challenge to extract ...

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 ...