[Interview] Fighting Moon and Mars Dust with An Electric Shield

Dust is a big problem for Moon and Mars. It sticks to everything, breaks things, covers solar panels. So, how do you solve this problem? One possible solution is an electric shield that uses charged surfaces to repel the dust. 👉 [Interview+] No YT ads https://www.patreon.com/universetoday 🟣 Guest: Luca Scifoni https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Luca-Scifoni 📜 Performance of electrodynamic dust shields with functional surface coatings for lunar dust mitigation https://www.researchgate.net/publication/395286032Performanceofelectrodynamicdustshieldswithfunctionalsurfacecoatingsforlunardust_mitigation 00:00 Intro 02:24 Lunar dust 07:12 Mitigation strategies 10:46 Electrostatic shield 20:49 Not just the Moon 26:07 Potential tests 28:33 Current obsessions 33:11 Final thoughts 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/KPzd40hj3gQ 📰 GUIDE TO SPACE Newsletter No ads. Subscribe for FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)