From Atomic Frontier.

NASA’s Artemis missions have generated a new interest in lunar simulant for testing our future spacecraft and equiptment on the harsh surface of the moon. I visited the University of Central Florida’s Exolith Lab to find out how we’re making LHS.

Check out Exolith at: https://spaceresourcetech.com/

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0:00 That’s no moon
0:36 We need better simulants
3:11 Make the moon
6:41 Bake the moon
10:26 Results

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