• MaggiWuerze@feddit.org
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    3 months ago

    What could that glass be used for, other than building houses? Can you sink in the deeper parts like NASA feared when they send the first people up?

    • CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      The glass just has high angularity like the other particles it comes from so while in and of itself it isn’t useful, highly angular particles make for better interlocking when made into cements.

      And I don’t think they’re as worried about the depth of the dust in the highlands but it definitely makes exploring craters on foot impossible with the regolith present. You could absolutely get buried in it if the depth of the dust is 10m deep in some spots. We have a lot of concerns with the dust and how we can make long term survivable hardware which is part of what I worked on.