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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.
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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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