Lunar dust is likely to contain 'nanoparticles'
AMSTERDAM – Marek Zbik of the Queensland University of Technology (Australia) believes to have found the cause of the strange properties of the thick layer of “dust” on the surface of the moon.
Research with a special X-ray microscope showed that the glass bubbles in the lunar soil contain no gas, like their counterparts on earth, but a porous network of glassy ‘nanoparticles’.
According Zbik are these tiny particles created from a rock that is melted by a meteorite. If such a rock again later is struck by a meteorite and pulverized, are the nano particles released.
Pulverization process
This continuous pulverization process creates a soil type that doesn’t exist on earth , because meteorite impacts are much less of the protective atmosphere. Nanoparticles behave very differently than ordinary dust.
It is therefore conceivable that the presence of the foreign properties of the substance may explain Mon.
Lunar dust is electrostatically charged, which leads to large numbers of particles that “float” some meters above the surface . The stuff is also very ‘sticky’ and brittle.