What Do You Need to Make Martian Oxygen? MOXIE!
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
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🗓️ 16 December 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Mike Hecht is in charge of the MOXIE experiment on NASA’s Perseverance rover, arriving on Mars in February. The tiny device will test our ability to turn the Red Planet’s plentiful carbon dioxide into oxygen. Someday a scaled-up version may make the oxidizer that will get astronauts back to Earth. Mike also helps lead the groundbreaking Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration that captured the first image of a black hole. Want to win a Planetary Society baseball cap? Your opportunity arrives with What’s Up. Discover more at https://www.planetary.org/planetary-radio/1216-2020-mike-hecht-moxie
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| 0:00.0 | It takes a lot of moxy to make oxygen on Mars, as you'll hear this week on planetary radio. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome, I'm Ad Kaplan, of the Planetary Society, with more of the Human Adventure |
| 0:17.2 | across our solar system and beyond. |
| 0:20.5 | NASA's Perseverance Rover is closing in on the red planet. |
| 0:24.3 | Inside the robotic explorer is an experiment that will move us farther down the road |
| 0:29.1 | toward putting men and women on Mars. |
| 0:32.1 | I think you'll enjoy my conversation with Moxie principal investigator Mike Hecht. |
| 0:37.0 | Want to win a Planetary Society baseball cap? |
| 0:40.0 | You'll get another opportunity when Bruce Betts visits with another What's Up report. |
| 0:46.4 | The exploration of our solar system marches on. |
| 0:49.0 | You can track it in our weekly newsletter, the down link. |
| 0:52.1 | A couple of the stories have progressed even since the |
| 0:54.7 | December 11th edition appeared. |
| 0:57.4 | For example, Japan's Space Agency has just announced that the sample return capsule from the |
| 1:03.0 | Hiabusa 2 probe does indeed contain material from asteroid |
| 1:08.1 | Ryugu. The spacecraft snapped a beautiful shot of Earth as it sped by our planet. We've got a link |
| 1:14.3 | waiting for you at planetary.org slash downlink. And as I record this China's |
| 1:20.3 | sample return spacecraft is nearing Earth. |
| 1:23.4 | Changu 5 is believed to be carrying about 2 kilograms of lunar material. |
| 1:28.8 | NASA has selected 18 lucky astronauts for what it calls the Artemis team. |
| 1:34.4 | Some number of them may be the next humans to walk on the moon. |
| 1:38.0 | We'll talk with one of them that are in Stephanie Wilson next week. Moxie is the Mars Oxygen Institute Resource Utilization Experiment. |
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