Lunar mining and moon land claims fall into a gray area of international law, but negotiations are underway to avoid conflict and damage to spacecraft
." The moon is covered by a layer of fine dust and small, sharp rock fragments called regolith. Since there is virtually no atmosphere on the moon, regolith is A part of the 1969 Apollo 12 mission was to bring pieces of Surveyor 3 — a U.S. spacecraft that landed on the moon in 1967 to study its surface — back to Earth.
Dust from the landing of Apollo 12, seen in the background in this image, punctured metal on the Surveyor 3, front, from more than 500 feet away.As efforts to return to the moon began ramping up in the 2000s, NASA was so concerned by the destructive potential of lunar dust that in 2011 it issued a set of recommendations to all space-faring entities. The goal was to protect Apollo and other U.S. objects on the lunar surface that are of historical and scientific value.
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