Redivivus is a Latin adjective that means "living again, renewed, renovated." In the last century or earlier, Moxie was a brand-name for a soft drink originally made in Maine, and it is still available in certain areas of the world. The soft drink was so widely advertised that the name became a noun in common use to stand for "vigor, pep, boldness, courage, nerve."
MOXIE is a new acronym used by Nasa to simplify the name of an instrument that will be deployed on the Mars 2020 mission. MOXIE stands for Mars Oxygen ISRU (in situ resource utilization) Experiment. The Latin phrase in situ means "on site, on location" from the noun situs, sitūs m. "site, location" and the preposition in meaning "in/on." Once you read about the job of the MOXIE, you will agree that Nasa is making a bold plan into the future.
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