Talk:Lunar soil

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This is a very simple starting point for an article on Lunar Soil. Hopefully, over time, enough information will be accumulated here, and make this article useful as a resource regarding lunar soil and its properties. This stub was created in 5 minutes, but a good accumulation of facts and knowledge will only result from editing over an extended period of time. Feel free to make any and all corrections - including complete revision of anything written - if it will result in a higher level of accuracy and usefulness.

Despite the simple title, Lunar Soil is a topic which covers fairly wide range of information. Future subsections should include:

  1. Origin of Lunar Soil
  2. Composition of Lunar Soil
  3. Mining and Processing of Lunar Soil
  4. Engineering Challenge Posed By Lunar Soil - a place for the current knowledge of Engr 
     challenges of lunar soil (this will not be a speculative section; instead it will focus 
     on existing knowledge from legitimate sources)
     4.1. Civil Engineering: lunar soil properties differ from those of Earth soil, 
          and all future structures built on the Moon depend on concrete knowledge 
          of its soil
     4.2. Mechanical Engineering: Moon's surface is covered by a layer of extremely fine, 
          electrically charged dust - the lunar regolith; Any mechanisms operating on the 
          Moon will have to be safe from the effects of that dust settling on moving parts

This is just a tentative index of topics which should be covered by the fully developed article. Sub-topics will be added, removed, or incorporated into other sub-topics as needed.

Christmas break will give me enough time to crack this one a little more.