1/2: #ClassicHotelMars: MOXIE memories: 1/2: #HotelMars: MOXIE onboard Perseverance makes oxygen that can sustain explorers indefinitely. Michael Hecht, Principal Investigator, NASA. Haystack Observatory, MIT. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com (Originally p
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1/2: #ClassicHotelMars: MOXIE memories: 1/2: #HotelMars: MOXIE onboard Perseverance makes oxygen that can sustain explorers indefinitely. Michael Hecht, Principal Investigator, NASA. Haystack Observatory, MIT. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com (Originally posted September 12, 2022)
https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/mars-rovers-moxie-oxygen-generator-one-step-closer-to-supporting-human-life-on-the-red-planet/
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| 0:40.2 | Hotel Mars, Episode N, David Livingston, Dr. Space, himself is here with me and we're |
| 0:46.2 | headed to Mars. Thanks to Michael Hecht, Michael Z. Soci Director at Haystack Observatory |
| 0:52.7 | MIT, but most importantly, he's the principal investigator on a toaster so-called metaphor |
| 1:01.0 | by the Washington Post. A toaster on board perseverance, the rover on the surface of Mars, |
| 1:08.4 | DeZero Crater. And this toaster, this Moxie, which Michael will demonstrate for us, is |
| 1:14.7 | a road to the future of Martian colonization. This is not Hollywood anymore. This is an experiment |
| 1:21.3 | that works. Michael, congratulations. Good evening. Introduce us to Moxie, which of course |
| 1:28.0 | I was born an acronym, but in any event, I love the name Moxie. What is it meant to do, |
| 1:34.1 | Michael? Thank you. Very glad to be here and thank you for letting me talk about one |
| 1:39.8 | of my favorite subjects. Moxie is going to solve a big problem for us when we go to Mars |
| 1:47.0 | someday, when maybe my grandchildren or yours go to Mars. And when Lewis and Clark set |
| 1:52.9 | off across the United States, they brought all the things they needed from ammunition |
| 1:57.3 | to food, but they did not have to worry about oxygen. When we go to Mars, there's a beautiful |
| 2:03.1 | planet waiting for us to explore. And it's got lots that we need, but no oxygen. And sometimes |
| 2:09.4 | we don't think about the fact that we not only need that oxygen to breathe, which we then |
| 2:15.2 | use to help turn our fuel, our food into energy, but we need it for anything, any other fuel |
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