How Jagged Moon Dust Could Support Future Astronauts

Chang'e 6 lander on the lunar far side - taken by a small rover accompanying it. Credit - Chinese National Space Agency/Chinese Academy of Sciences

Lunar dust can be a pain – but it’s also literally the ground we will have to traverse if we are ever to have a permanent human settlement on the Moon. In that specific use case, it’s clingy, jagged, staticky properties can actually be an advantage, according to a new paper, recently published in Research from researchers at Beihang University, who analyzed the mechanical properties of samples returned by Chang’e 6 mission to the far side of the Moon.

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