From Michigan Tech to Mars
![An inventor and innovator from Michigan Tech smiles in front of a mock-up of a Mars Rover in the same class at the Rover for which she and her team developed an experimental device to convert carbon dioxide to oxygen.](/stories/2023/12/images/mtu-to-mars-jessica-elwell-with-rover-banner1024.jpg)
Creating oxygen from Martian air just became possible thanks to a toaster-sized solid oxide electrolyzer created by Husky Jessica Elwell ’02 ’03 (B.S. M.S. Chemical Engineering) and her team.
Learn more about Elwell, her work as chief operating officer of OxEon Energy, and what led to the creation of the device — named one of Time magazine’s Best Inventions of 2023 — at Stories from Husky Nation.