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The Trouble With Moon Dust
Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea
English - March 20, 2021 13:05 - 39 minutes - 2.33 KB - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsScience radio Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
With no gravity or atmosphere to speak of, and temperatures lurching from 127C to minus 173C - the Moon is a dangerous place.
That being said, certain death if exposed to its environment isn’t stopping us from trying to get back up there - far from it.
But there is one tiny thing that might put a spanner in the works if we do ever manage to land on the Moon’s surface again...and it isn’t the lack of oxygen or the solar radiation.
Dr Philip Metzger, Planetary Scientist at the Florida Space Institute from the University of Central Florida joined Jonathan to discuss.
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