Mars test

NASA engineers at Houston's Johnson Space Center in Texas have tested equipment capable of extracting oxygen from the carbon-dioxide Martian atmosphere in preparation for the flight of the Mars In-Situ Propellant Production Precursor, which will fly on the Mars Surveyor 2001 lander.

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