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Wednesday, April 22, 2009

The Moon Gets Stickier in the Middle of the Day

The first astronauts to walk on the moon were inundated by sticky lunar dust. The new research, which drew on the personal files and paper charts of physicist Brian O'Brien of Perth, suggests that future lunar astronauts may have greater problems with dust adhesion in the middle half of the day than NASA's Apollo missions faced in the morning.

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