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Scientists develop moon ‘dustbuster’ to clean lunar gunk off astronaut gear – CNET
Lunar dust is insidious, and cleaning it up is a challenge we must face before trying to inhabit the moon.
NASA’s Advanced Concepts Laboratory released this illustration of lunar dust.
NASA
Here on Earth, dust can be annoying. On the moon, it can be a destructive force that threatens to derail human exploration efforts. It’s razor sharp and sticks to everything.
A team led by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder has come up with a new way to deal with lunar dust, and it involves using electron beams for cleaning fine particles off surfaces. It sounds sci-fi, but it has a lot of poten…
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