Mars Oxygen ISRU Experiment (MOXIE)

@article{Hecht2021MarsOI,
  title={Mars Oxygen ISRU Experiment (MOXIE)},
  author={M Hecht and Jeffrey A. Hoffman and Donald Rapp and John B. McClean and Jeffrey R. Soohoo and R M Schaefer and Asad M. Aboobaker and Jeffrey A. Mellstrom and Joseph Hartvigsen and Forrest Meyen and Eric D. Hinterman and Gerald E. Voecks and A. S. Liu and Maya Nasr and J. Lewis and J. L. Johnson and Carl S. Guernsey and Jaroslava Swoboda and Craig M. Eckert and C. Alcalde and Michel Poirier and P. K. Khopkar and S. Elangovan and Morten Bo Madsen and P. H. Smith and Christopher R. Graves and Gerald B. Sanders and Koorosh R. Araghi and Manuel Torre Ju{\'a}rez and Dennis Larsen and Juan H. Agui and A. Burns and Karl Lackner and Rick Nielsen and Tom Pike and B. Tata and K. Wilson and T. Brown and Thomas P. Disarro and R. V. Morris and Robin Steinkraus and Rao Surampudi and Tory D. Werne and A. Ponce},
  journal={Space Science Reviews},
  year={2021},
  volume={217},
  pages={1-76}
}
MOXIE is a technology demonstration that addresses the Mars 2020 (Perseverance) objective of preparing for future human exploration by demonstrating In Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) in the form of dissociating atmospheric CO 2 into O 2 . The primary goals of the MOXIE project are to verify and validate the technology of Mars ISRU as a springboard for the future, and to establish achievable performance requirements and design approaches that will lead to a full-scale ISRU system based on… 
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