Lydall testing air filter system to convert CO2 into oxygen on Mars with NASA rover, CEO says - CNBC

stockpile of personal protection equipment, supplied the National Aeronautics and Space Administration with HEPA-grade filtration media that's being used to produce oxygen on Mars, according to CEO Sara Greenstein.

The rover is equipped with filtration media made by Lydall, which is studying ways to convert carbon dioxide into oxygen that can be useful for human travel to the red planet.

Greenstein said on "Mad Money" that Lydall's HEPA-grade filtration media, called the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) module, is installed on the rover and is showing some signs of success.

NASA announced last month that it ran the first of several tests using MOXIE, which was designed to generate about 20 minutes of breathable oxygen per hour for astronauts, according to the press release?