36. Are there mush spots on the Moon? (A K2S Question)

From The Space Library

Famed author Arthur C. Clarke long ago wrote a short story called A Fall of Moondust in which a tourist bus on the Moon sinks into a lake of Moon dust and becomes trapped. While a frightening thought, and one that seriously concerned early lunar scientists, scientists have generally found that while the soil, or regolith, is lightly compressed at the surface, it quickly becomes compacted as you get deeper. This fact provided for some very funny movies from the Apollo missions as astronauts tried with only partial success to get deeper core samples. Unlike mush spots on Earth these would have no water, but be only dust.

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Answer provided by Thomas Matula, Ph.D. & Kenneth J. Murphy

Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer

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