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The 18 pages that link to Lunar regolith, each with the reason it gives.
Artemis programRelated: Surface crews and equipment must operate in abrasive, electrically charged lunar dust.
In situ resource utilizationRelated: It is the most widespread lunar feedstock considered for extraction and construction.
Helium-3Related: It retains helium-3 delivered by the solar wind, making it a proposed resource.
Lunar explorationRelated: Its properties affect sampling, mobility, equipment wear, and possible resource use.
Lunar roverRelated: Its fine, abrasive grains and weak bearing strength complicate wheel traction and vehicle design.
Earth's MoonRelated: Impacts continually grind lunar rocks into the material encountered at the surface.
Lunar waterRelated: Water may be mixed with regolith grains, making excavation and separation central engineering challenges.
Chang'e 4Related: Yutu-2's instruments examined local material to investigate the landing site's geology.
Lunar south poleRelated: Landing, drilling, and building at the pole depend on the properties of its local regolith.
Lunar mareRelated: Impacts continually mix and cover the mare’s underlying basalt.
Alan BeanRelated: Bean incorporated lunar dust into some paintings, linking their materials to the surface he had explored.
Luna 9Related: Luna 9’s landing and images helped establish that the surface could bear a lander.
Space settlementRelated: It may provide shielding and raw material for lunar construction.