{"id":159317,"date":"2023-03-01T17:27:28","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T23:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/new-liquid-nitrogen-spray-could-help-nasa-solve-its-lunar-dust-problem"},"modified":"2023-03-01T17:27:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T23:27:28","slug":"new-liquid-nitrogen-spray-could-help-nasa-solve-its-lunar-dust-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/new-liquid-nitrogen-spray-could-help-nasa-solve-its-lunar-dust-problem","title":{"rendered":"New liquid nitrogen spray could help NASA solve its lunar dust problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IyDPeRePJTI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The novel method could form a crucial part of NASA\u2019s plans to establish a permanent human presence on the moon.<\/p>\n<p>You may not know that lunar dust poses a real problem to NASA as it aims to establish a permanent crew presence on the moon with its upcoming Artemis missions.<\/p>\n<p>Now, though, a new liquid nitrogen spray developed by Washington State University researchers was able to remove virtually all of the simulated moon dust from a space suit during tests, a press statement reveals.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>NASA<\/p>\n<p>Moondust is largely made of small particles that can damage spacesuits, machinery, and equipment. In future habitats, it may even pose a health risk by damaging astronauts\u2019 lungs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/new-liquid-nitrogen-spray-could-help-nasa-solve-its-lunar-dust-problem\">Continue reading \u201cNew liquid nitrogen spray could help NASA solve its lunar dust problem\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The novel method could form a crucial part of NASA\u2019s plans to establish a permanent human presence on the moon. You may not know that lunar dust poses a real problem to NASA as it aims to establish a permanent crew presence on the moon with its upcoming Artemis missions. Now, though, a new liquid [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}