The Moon's Most Dreaded Feature Is Dust

Extremely fine, like flour, but still sandpaper-rough, moon dust infiltrates the astronauts' spacesuits, causing "lunar hay fever," and creates dust storms within the shuttle cabins. All of the Apollo missions that took place between 1969 and 1972 reported the same major p... [ read more >> ]

Bootprint on the moon dust

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Bootprint on the moon dust