After walking on the Moon astronauts hopped back into their lunar lander, bringing Moon dust with them. They were surprised, and perplexed, to find that it smelled like spent gunpowder. This week on Reactions, learn why Moon dust might smell like the aftermath of a Civil War reenactment.
Sources:
- The Mysterious Smell of Moondust
- The Moon Smells: Apollo Astronauts Describe Lunar Aroma
- Fireworks Fashion, Extraterrestrial Smells
- Propellant Chemistry
- The Chemistry of Combustion and Arson
- BurningCharacteristicsofSmokelessPowder
- Trying to Rest
- Wake-up for EVA-2
- The Effects of Lunar Dust on EVA SystemsDuring the Apollo Missions
- What a Little Moon Dust Can Do
- The Chemical Composition of Lunar Soil
- Breathing lunar dust could pose health risk to future astronauts
- Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics banner
- HOW THE MOON MAKES WATER: A CONCEPTUAL VIEW.
- Lunar dust and lunar simulant activation and monitoring
- Physicochemical properties of respirable-size lunar dust
- Moon Dust Is Super Toxic to Human Cells
- The Mystery of Moon Dust
- Assessing Toxicity and Nuclear and Mitochondrial DNA Damage Caused by Exposure of Mammalian Cells to Lunar Regolith Simulants
- Lunar surface: Dust dynamics and regolith mechanics
- NASA’s Dirty Secret: Moon Dust
- The Chemical Reactivity of Lunar Dust Relevant to Human Exploration of the Moon
- The Lunar Regolith
- NASA's Dirty Secret: Moon Dust
- Smell Disorders
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