NASA's Mars rover extracts first oxygen; Ingenuity helicopter completes second flight
Scientists at air-and-space Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) made major strides on the surface of air-and-space this week. On Wednesday, the agency announced the Perseverance Mars rover’s MOXIE (Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment) instrument had converted carbon dioxide into oxygen on the air-and-space for the first time. Just a day later, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter embarked on…