the.com/lunar dust
the moon's revenge for every footprint: jagged glass shards that cut spacesuits and wreck lungs.
means a fine, abrasive powder of shattered rock and glass coating the moon's surface, formed by billions of years of micrometeorite bombardment with no wind or water to smooth it down.
from named regolith by geologists, but astronauts just called it moondust after apollo missions found it clinging to everything, smelling like spent gunpowder and jamming zippers.
shapejagged and glass-sharp, unlike smooth earth sand
smellapollo crews said it smelled like spent gunpowder
static clingelectrostatically charged, clings to suits and lenses
health risknasa worries it could scar astronaut lungs like silicosis
for instance
apollo 17 gene cernan — 1972, dust wore through three layers of his glove
apollo 12 surveyor 3 — 1969, coated the probe camera parked nearby since 1967
apollo 11 hatch mess — 1969, armstrong and aldrin tracked it inside the lander cabin