The novel method could form a crucial part of NASA's plans to establish a permanent human presence on the moon.
You may not know that lunar dust poses a real problem to NASA as it aims to establish a permanent crew presence on the moon with its upcoming Artemis missions.
"Moondust is electrostatically charged, abrasive and gets everywhere, making it a very difficult substance to deal with," Ian Wells, first author of a paper on the topic and a senior in WSU’s School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, explainedThe team of Washington State University researchers, who published a paper in the journal, explained that their liquid nitrogen spray removed more than 98 percent of moon dust simulant in a vacuum environment while causing minimal damage to...
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