Scientists say oxygen has been produced on Mars for the first time, bringing humans closer to the possibility of life on another planet.
Using an instrument "the size of a lunchbox", a team supported by NASA says it has been transforming the Red Planet's carbon dioxide to produce more oxygen for the past 18 months, and is now paving the way to temporarily sustain human life.
Since landing on Mars in February 2021, the MIT-led Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment - or 'Moxie', has turned CO2 into oxygen at the rate of a small tree on seven occasions, the team said.
