![]() ![]() The first automatic lunar mission, which successfully reached the lunar surface in 1966, confirmed that the Moon is really solid, and the dust layer does not exceed a few dozen of centimetres. ![]() At one meeting, he wrote in a notebook: “The moon is solid,” put the date, signed, and handed the sheet to his opponent. Clarke released the novel “A Fall of Moondust,” in which the lunar settlers were forced to move across the surface on special dust-propelled vehicles.Īccording to legend, the endless debate about how deep the dust on the Moon is, was put to an end by the Soviet rocket engineer Sergei Korolev. In 1959, Isaac Asimov, in his popular science article “14 Million Tons of Dust Per Year”, suggested that this is the amount of moon powder that falls on Earth every year. The same hypothesis was also fueled by popular science fiction writers. However, many scientists believed that even if they succeeded in flying to the Moon, it would still be impossible to land on it since the ship would simply sink in a huge layer of moon dust. ![]() ![]() Humanity has been studying the Moon for centuries, but only at the beginning of the space exploration era did we get a real chance to see the Earth’s natural satellite with our own eyes. ![]()
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