WTDS0107 Lunar Regolith and …Dust
WTDS0107 Lunar Regolith and …Dust
Every day on the moon is hit by thousands of meteorites the surface creating a unique combination of materials known as lunar regolith.
⛔ And get the feeling for it as you imagine dust everywhere, including your cloth. Its finner grain is dust, the terrible moon dust, abrasive, and an immense pain for developers of hardware that will work on the moon.
🔦 The moon regolith is a combination of materials that meteorites have bombarded for millions of years, a thorough definition can be found here:
https://curator.jsc.nasa.gov/lunar/le... from @ReelNASA
🔎 ..."The lunar surface is covered by a layer of unconsolidated debris called the lunar regolith (fig. 53). The thickness of the regolith varies from about 5 m on mare surfaces to about 10 m on highland surfaces. The bulk of the regolith is a fine gray soil with a density of about 1.5 g/cm3 , but the regolith also includes breccia and rock fragments from the local bedrock (reviews by Heiken et al. 1974 and Papike et al. 1982). About half the weight of lunar soil is less than 60 to 80 microns in size." ...
📢 It can be electrostatic active, so grounding something is a pain!
We'll need help getting out of there with our machinery working.
📙 If you want to know more about moon regolith, I was introduced to great content and course description here from Rob Mueller, Philip Metzger, A Scott Howe, and Brian Wilcox.
https://kiss.caltech.edu/workshops/3d... from @KISSCaltech
🎬 If you have questions on how I've applied this to a mining rover, feel free to let me know. I also believe the authors above are open for talks.
💰 And now let us find a way to make Moondust less than a pain.
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00:00 Introduction - Moon Regolith
00:24 Where did it came from ( or was it there already)
00:47 Major problems
01:00 Sources to really know more
This is where I've started:
Space is Open for Business by Robert Jacobson - read it and take a ton of notes https://amzn.to/3R9urD8
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX by Eric Berger - this is deep and influenced me a lot on my thinking of Space as a pursuit.
https://amzn.to/3wue3U2
The Astronaut Maker: How One Mysterious Engineer Ran Human Spaceflight for a Generation by Michael Cassutt - this is a gem of good work and how to do things in Space
https://amzn.to/3XDIRhh
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