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[Interview] Battling Moon Dust With Liquid Nitrogen Spray

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English - May 13, 2023 20:00 - 30 minutes - 41.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 238 ratings
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Moon Dust will be a major problem once people will return and settle there. We need to find ways to clean it from space suits, equipment, etc. In this interview I'm talking with Ian Wells, who is a cryogenics researcher suggesting a way to battle Moon dust with liquid nitrogen.
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00:00 Intro
01:13 How bad is lunar dust
09:34 Liquid nitrogen spray
13:31 How can it be used
19:09 Mars dust
24:55 Risks for humans
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Moon Dust will be a major problem once people will return and settle there. We need to find ways to clean it from space suits, equipment, etc. In this interview I'm talking with Ian Wells, who is a cryogenics researcher suggesting a way to battle Moon dust with liquid nitrogen.

🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday

👉 Interview with Dr Christine Hartzell:

https://youtu.be/LfigUsu7V2Q

00:00 Intro
01:13 How bad is lunar dust
09:34 Liquid nitrogen spray
13:31 How can it be used
19:09 Mars dust
24:55 Risks for humans

📺 VIDEO VERSION

https://youtu.be/tWartKovuxw

📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER

Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads.

Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter

🎧 PODCASTS

Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/

Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/

🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA

Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain

Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday

Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday

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📩 CONTACT FRASER

[email protected]

⚖️ LICENSE

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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