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Podcaster: Dr. Pamela Gay

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Title: The Daily Space:  Percy’s MOXIE Extracts Oxygen From Mars’s Atmosphere

Organization: Cosmoquest

Link: http://www.astronomycast.com

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In another first for NASA’s Perseverance rover, a cube-shaped instrument called MOXIE, or Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment, has successfully converted some of Mars’s atmospheric carbon dioxide into oxygen. Plus, a wild roundup of stories including exoplanets, sky maps, fast radio bursts, meteorites, the problem with symmetry, and new timelapse images in Google Earth.

Bio: Dr. Pamela Gay is a Senior Scientist at Planetary Science Institute and a Director of  CosmoQuest.

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