moon dust

or moon·dust

[ moon duhst ]

noun

1. the dry, powdery soil of the moon.

Word History and Origins

Origin of moon dust¹

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

A new computer model mimics Moon dust so well that it could lead to smoother and safer Lunar robot teleoperations.

From Science Daily

Working with their industry partner, Thales Alenia Space in the UK, who has specific interest in creating working robotic systems for space applications, the team investigated a virtual version of regolith, another name for Moon dust.

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However, it works best with small quantities of Moon dust.

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"Then, we conducted a series of experiments -- half in a simulated environment, half in the real world -- to measure whether the virtual moon dust behaved the same as its real-world counterpart."

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While some especially accurate models of Moon dust had previously been developed, these are so detailed that they require a lot of computational time, making them too slow to control a robot smoothly.

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