Aww, dang it!

That's why you use prisoners for lunar farming.
Who cares if its difficult then?

Those same processes would make a crapload of water when the high energy protons impact Ilmenite in the regolith, BTW.

OMFG LUNAR WARMZ!1111!!!!

"the soooolar wiiiiind, the soooolar wiiiiind"

Inconsolable.

Those winds may be the solution to long distance space travel. I recall seeing the concept many moons ago in a Nat Geo magazine about alternatives to propulsion systems. Solar sails would be two-fold awesome because in addition to the free, constant power of them, one could actually make a space frigate...that had farkin' sails, man!

I wonder how many Boffin spies died bring us this information.

I bet these guys don't have much experience with permafrost.

The very fact that CMEs are vaporizing all this material means means there are frequent spikes in volatile pressure, subsurface as well as above-ground, and those volatile particles will spread out underground and attach to anything at the subsurface that could bind with them. If you build up a solid layer of that stuff, it'll act as a seal to block anything beneath it from escaping. The same kind of mechanism keeps comets from completely vaporizing away, once they build up a big enough outer shell of dust.

Whether there is some form of volatile-rich cement buried beneath a surface of loose volatile-poor dust is an open question until somebody actually gets up there and starts digging. Given the difficulty Apollo experiments had in getting cores, and the recent hydrogen data, and the solar wind hydrogen flux, I won't be surprised if there is in some places.

My fickle friend, the solar wind

If i'm not mistaken, they dated the age of the moon using dust that was on the very surface, and claimed it had been there undisturbed for millenia so it was a reliable method, while many doubted the accuracy.

I know better than to ask for a public apology, but do you think they'll at least second guess the alleged age of the moon?

says Will Farrell

Cardassia here we come!
/hot spoonhead love!