[Interview] Fighting Moon and Mars Dust with An Electric Shield

Dust is a big problem for Moon and Mars. It sticks to everything, breaks things, covers solar panels. So, how do you solve this problem? One possible solution is an electric shield that uses charged surfaces to repel the dust.

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🟣 Guest: Luca Scifoni

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📜 Performance of electrodynamic dust shields with functional surface coatings for lunar dust mitigation

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/395286032_Performance_of_electrodynamic_dust_shields_with_functional_surface_coatings_for_lunar_dust_mitigation

00:00 Intro

02:24 Lunar dust

07:12 Mitigation strategies

10:46 Electrostatic shield

20:49 Not just the Moon

26:07 Potential tests

28:33 Current obsessions

33:11 Final thoughts

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