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After years of testing, NASA’s electric dust shield, designed to actively sweep moon dust off surfaces using electricity, is being put to the ultimate test—on the lunar surface itself.


Moon dust is sharp, corrosive, and potentially fatal. NASA’s new electric force field shield is designed to blast it away.

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