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I find the way the article uses the "lunar soil" misleading. On earth, soil is a complex biological output of an ecosystem of microbes, fungi, worms, etc, obvio
by shmageggy 4y ago
I find the way the article uses the "lunar soil" misleading. On earth, soil is a complex biological output of an ecosystem of microbes, fungi, worms, etc, obviously none of which exist on the moon. In the paper, the authors are (mostly) careful to describe the lunar material as regolith, e.g. "Soils derived from lunar regolith". Failing to make that distinction implies that the raw material on the moon is much more useful on its own than it really is.
- noselasd 4y agoLunar soil is a thing, this article didn't invent it, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_soil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_soil
- shmageggy 4y agoI see. I still find this usage confusing, since in the lunar context it seems to simply refer to grain size (regolith -> soil -> dust), whereas terrestrially, the word "soil" has a much richer connotation.