Lecture: MOXIE - The Oxygen Generator on Mars

This THURSDAY NIGHT lecture will be held exclusively online via Zoom. Attendees may join at 7:00 PM for pre-lecture socializing. The lecture itself will begin at 7:30 PM. The agenda for our January meeting is as follows:

1. Club Update by WAA President Jordan Webber

2. What's Up? - A brief presentation on what to look for in the sky for the coming month given by WAA VP for Field Events Bob Kelly

3. Featured Lecture: MOXIE- The Oxygen Generator on Mars by Piyush Khopkar (see below for details)

About January's Featured Lecture:

MOXIE is a technology demonstration that addresses the Mars 2020 (Perseverance) objective of preparing for future human exploration by demonstrating In Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) in the form of dissociating atmospheric CO2 into O2. The primary goals of the MOXIE project are to verify and validate the technology of Mars ISRU as a springboard for the future, and to establish achievable performance requirements…