Physicist may have solved a 40-year-old lunar riddle
Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 20:14
in Astronomy & Space
By analyzing his Apollo program tapes, he has concluded that moon dust's stickiness is influenced by the angle of the sun's rays. The finding could help protect future colonists. One of the biggest problems facing America's space agency as it prepares to return to the moon is how to manage lunar dust. It gets into everything. Worse, it's sticky, adhering to spacesuits and posing a potentially serious health hazard to future colonists.