Lunar Dust Detectors (LDD)| Dust Yourself Off

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The Challenge | Dust Yourself Off

The Apollo missions showed us that lunar dust not only clung to everything and was impossible to fully remove, but it was also dangerous to humans and damaging to spacecraft systems. Your challenge is to develop a way to detect, map, and mitigate lunar dust to reduce the effects on astronauts or spacecraft interior systems.

Lunar Dust Moon

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A Tungsten machine is constructed to deal with the dust sticking nature; it detects the dust and remove it without drawbacks. It is Ultra-ever-Tech coated. It consists of four main parts; an undercarriage, a shovel, a nylon-rotating cylinder, and a tank.

Lunar Dust Detectors (LDD)
  • Moon Nature:

In innumerable ways that affect life here, the moon and Earth are linked. They are also directly and indirectly related in biological life. According to Krautwurst (2010), without the moon's stabilizing gravity, the earth will fluctuate erratically on its axis, causing environmental chaos. Also, moon’s air is un-breathable. Its temperatures are excessive: a blistering 243 degrees Fahrenheit during the month-long lunar day, followed by another deep-freeze night month at 272 degrees below zero. In addition, a single "day" on the moon lasts about 28 Earth days, meaning the lunar daytime is nearly two Earth weeks long.

  • Temperatures on Moon:

Recently, the lunar surface’s nature and temperature have acquired a way more noticeable interest since discovering the way of temperature observations using the microwave radar (Flinn, 2019). Temperatures on the moon vary significantly between mornings and evenings. It becomes very hot in the daytime, about 100 degrees C. On the other hand, the lunar surface gets very cold at night, as cold as minus 173 degrees C.

According to Statt (2019), moon’s no atmosphere is the reason behind this wide variation as there is nothing to hold in heat at night or prevent the surface from getting so hot during the day.

  • Dust Composition
  • Problem:

According to NASA Ames Research Center, the presence of dust on the moon is so dangerous and risky. Every bit resembles a modest shard of glass as there's no rains or wind to make these edges smooth or soft. During the Apollo missions, it stuck gear and stalled out in the seals of room suits, causing a genuine loss of pressure. Martian dust represents its very own dangers. On the Red Planet, whirling residue tempests have secured wanderers' sun-based boards, fundamentally lessening their capacity while they hung tight for a positive whirlwind. Furthermore, if these sorts of room residue get into an isolated space, overlook it: It can be dangerous or disturbing to the lungs and could imperil space explorers' wellbeing on long missions.