'We rolled the dice a little bit. It was 'hold your breath and see what happens.''
"We got great results," Michael Hecht, MOXIE's principal investigator, told"This could have gone wrong," he added, explaining that the latest run could've damaged the sensitive instrument.
Over 58 minutes, MOXIE achieved a production rate of roughly 12 grams of oxygen an hour, about twice as much as was expected.Space.comThe instrument works by pumping Martian air into a reservoir and then using an electrochemical process to rip an oxygen atom from each carbon dioxide molecule. The process isn't without risk, as the solid carbon byproduct can build up inside the device.
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