Astronauts' Arch-Enemy: Dust

For astronauts, dust is no joke. On the moon and Mars, dust isn’t at all like the stuff under your bed. It can be poisonous, corrosive, even made of razor-sharp glass. So future astronauts are going to need more than a dust buster to get their jobs done.

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