Even small-scale operations might disturb enough dust to create visible changes over time. By the end of this decade, nations and private companies may well be mining the surface of the Moon.

When Blue Ghost reaches the lunar surface, it will boot up 10 NASA science experiments that will conduct studies on lunar regolith (moon dust), the radiation environment on the moon, and the ...

When material is extracted from the moon, dust gets kicked up. Without an atmosphere to slow it down, this lunar dust can travel vast distances. That surface material is "space weathered" and ...

Tragically, it was caught up in an Oct. 3, 1977 fire that tore through Dunsink Observatory in Dublin, where the 0.002 ounces (0.05 grams) of Apollo 11 moon dust was on display. By all accounts ...

Not content, it even brought back samples to Earth – a decent 4.3 lb (1.9 kg) of Moon dust. Mars in 2024 was the site of the sad end of a machine that lived far beyond expectations. On January ...

More impressively, a bag containing traces of moon dust from Apollo 11 fetched $1.8 million at auction in 2017. The Apollo 11 artifact had been mistakenly misidentified and sold at a government ...

Firefly’s mission will deliver ten NASA payloads to the lunar surface, including a vacuum to sample moon dust and an X-ray imager studying how solar wind and the Earth’s magnetic field ...

When material is extracted from the Moon, dust gets kicked up. Without an atmosphere to slow it down, this lunar dust can travel vast distances. That surface material is "space weathered" and duller ...