Technicians carefully lower the MOXIE instrument into the belly of the Perseverance rover in the cleanroom at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California — AFP/NASA/JPL
NASA's Perseverance rover keeps making history.
The six-wheeled robot has converted some carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere into oxygen, the first time this has happened on another planet, the space agency said Wednesday.
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