SPACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE
RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

Space Research Institute
Russian Academy of Sciences

Lunar Dust

Solar System

When did people know that there is dust on the Moon? What is lunar regolith and what it consists of? What is nature of the glow over the lunar surface, seen by lunar spacecraft? IKI's scientists, who are building new instruments for the future lunar missions, talk about lunar dust, how we study it, and why it is important both for robotic and manned lunar missions

In Russian.

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Idea: Alexander V. Zakharov, IKI

Shooting, cut, 3D: Evgeny P. Germanyuk, IKI

Text: Yuri S. Dobrolensky, IKI

Production: IKI, 2017