Forensic Analysis of Lunar Dust and Spacesuit Mitigation
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Abstract
A study was performed by authors to analyze dust lifted from Jack Schmitt's EVA space suit from Apollo 17 for mineralogy and grain size distributions for the 1,200 sampled particles. The grains were viewed through an SEM, photographed and analyzed using EDS equipment and mathematical computations. This study yielded counterintuitive results to be discussed in this presentation. Also discussed are magnetic properties of lunar dust.
*Lunar and Planetary Institute, USRA, NASA, and Marshall University