Carbon dioxide rivers? Ancient Mars liquid may not all have been water Scientists are rethinking a long-held belief that the liquid responsible for shaping Mars' surface must have been water. Space · Dec 11, 2024
Does non-carbon-based life exist? Why are all living things carbon-based? Could extraterrestrial life instead be based on something like silicon? Salon · Dec 20, 2023
Mars rover Perseverance sets new record for making oxygen on Red Planet Earlier this month, the MOXIE oxygen-making experiment on the Perseverance Mars rover achieved a major milestone. Space · Jun 28, 2023
Life on Mars hope as machine produces oxygen on red planet for the first time A team has been able to churn out enough oxygen to sustain astronauts on Mars over the past 18 months — all from a piece of kit the size of a lunchbox Daily Mirror · Sep 24, 2022
Humans on Mars could depend on this lunchbox-sized device for survival An MIT-designed module on the Mars Perseverance rover successfully made oxygen on the Red Planet, marking a crucial step toward future crewed missions and even long-term settlements. Inverse · Sep 8, 2022
New Invention That Turns Carbon Dioxide Into Oxygen Could Help Colonize Mars Carbon dioxide is already being converted into oxygen on Mars thanks to an invention undergoing testing that could lead to the colonization of the red planet. Zenger · Sep 2, 2022