Computer-simulated moon dust may help lunar robots pass a major hurdle

[Admin]

Scientists have developed a new computer model that simulates how moon dust behaves in lunar gravity. They hope it will keep future moon exploration robots safe.

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[Cdr. Shepard]

Should those robots even be sent to the moon at all? Why bother with lunar exploration when there's an outside chance it could trigger a climate cataclysm on Earth?

And how about the carbon footprint of the companies contracted to manufacture these robots?

We're living through a climate crisis, Ms. Pultarova. I'd behoove you and yours to not treat the apocalypse so lightly.

 

[Unclear Engineer]

So how did they simulate the 1/6th gravity of the Moon? And how did they simulate the electrostatic charge behavior is a vacuum? Making a computer model that you think is realistic is probably easier than creating a physical model to test it here on Earth. So, other than going to the Moon to verify and/or tune the dust behavior model, how are they confident that it is realistic enough?