How will we have a bunch of commotion up there and not kick up a lot of dust that doesn’t fall out of the air quickly?
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Yeah, I’ve read it’s a huge problem. Not necessarily for that reason though.
>Dust mitigation has been an issue for NASA since Apollo. When astronauts were entering and exiting the lunar module, dust got everywhere – it clogged mechanisms, interfered with instruments, caused radiators to overheat and even tore up their spacesuits.
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>“We learned from Apollo that lunar dust can be less than 20 microns (about 0.00078 inches) in size,” said Sharon Miller, the passive dust shedding material program’s principal investigator at NASA Glenn. “The dust is very fine, abrasive and sharp, like tiny pieces of glass, making it more of a dangerous threat than just a simple nuisance.”
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>Fifty years later, the challenges of dust are greater for long-term exploration and sustainability on the Moon, as well as future human exploration of Mars.
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>[https://www.nasa.gov/feature/glenn/2021/dust-an-out-of-this-world-problem](https://www.nasa.gov/feature/glenn/2021/dust-an-out-of-this-world-problem)
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